. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mrs. Charles Hedley, of the Australian museum, Sydney, N. S. W. 560 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Murex ramosus, Linne. Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 95, pi. i., figs. 1, 2. A specimen was obtained by Mr. A. E. Finckh on one of the leeward islets of Funafuti. Cypr^ea becki, Gaskoin. Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., 1885, p. 91, pi. xvii., figs. 86, 87. One specimen collected by Mr. W. Poole on the lagoon beach of Funafuti. TURRICULA EXASPERATA, Gmelin. Tryon, Man. Conch., iv., 1882, p. 180,
. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mrs. Charles Hedley, of the Australian museum, Sydney, N. S. W. 560 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Murex ramosus, Linne. Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 95, pi. i., figs. 1, 2. A specimen was obtained by Mr. A. E. Finckh on one of the leeward islets of Funafuti. Cypr^ea becki, Gaskoin. Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., 1885, p. 91, pi. xvii., figs. 86, 87. One specimen collected by Mr. W. Poole on the lagoon beach of Funafuti. TURRICULA EXASPERATA, Gmelin. Tryon, Man. Conch., iv., 1882, p. 180, pi. liii., figs. 541-544, pi. liv., figs. 545 - 546. One dead shell dredged in 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava Islet. Marginella isseli, JVevill, var. ellicensis, var. nov. (Fig. 78.) Shell small, ovate, white, smooth, with a buried spire. Aperture narrow, crescentic. Outer lip arching from and above the vertex, thickened without and finely crenulate within, channeled anteriorly. Inner lip with a heavy layer of callus edged abruptly. Columella with three oblique entering folds, the posterior one small. Length 1*4; breadth -64 mm. Dredged at 36 fathoms north of Pava Islet' at 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava Islet, and at Pior, 78. 150 fathoms off Beacon Islet (Funamanu) After much perplexity I have concluded not to separate this specifically from M. isseli, Nevill,* which agrees in size and shape but apparently differs by an additional fold on the columella. The example of that which Issel examinedf had not the crenulated lip of the type. Savigny's work, containing the original descrip- tion, is unfortunately inaccessible to me. No distinction is apparent to me tetween this species and M. nympha, Brazier,! from Sydney Harbour, Examples from Cape Sidmouth, Queensland, of what appears to be another variety of M. isseli are before me. They agree in shape but differ by being 2 mm. in length, and by having five plications on the columella. * Tryon—Man. Conch., v., 1883, p. 40, pi. xi.
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