. 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. THE MOLLUSCA—HEDLEY. 469 Named in honour of the brilliant American Conchologist, who has so successfully laboured to place the systematic study of the Mollusca on a more scientific basis. Cylindra dactylus, Linne. Tryon, loc. cit., p. 197, pi. lvii., tigs. 658, 664 ; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 7, 65. Three specimens from the Funafuti lagoon. Garrett found this at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Society, P
. 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. THE MOLLUSCA—HEDLEY. 469 Named in honour of the brilliant American Conchologist, who has so successfully laboured to place the systematic study of the Mollusca on a more scientific basis. Cylindra dactylus, Linne. Tryon, loc. cit., p. 197, pi. lvii., tigs. 658, 664 ; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 7, 65. Three specimens from the Funafuti lagoon. Garrett found this at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Society, Paumotus, and Hawaii. Melvill and Standen quote it from the Loyalties.* Examples from Woodlark Island (British New Guinea), and New Caledonia, are contained in this Museum. Erato schmeltziana, Crosse. Tryon, Man. Conch, v., 1883, p. 11, pi. iv., figs. 54, 55. A few specimens were collected on the beach of the Funafuti lagoon. Previously reported only from Fiji. Marginella sandwicensis, Pease. Tryon, loc. cit., p. 45, pi. xii., fig. 69. Several dead shells were picked up on the beach of the Funafuti lagoon. Tryon reports it from Hawaii and Fiji. Marginella iota, sp. nov. (Fig. 41). Shell ovate, truncate anteriorly, white, smooth. Spire slightly exserted. Aperture comparatively wide. Outer lip thick, sin- uate, smooth within. Inner lip with three principal anterior plications and several remote subsidiary ones, deep within. Length L5, breadth *95 mm. Three specimens from the sand of the lagoon beach. The only Marginella comparable in size, known from the tropical Pacific, is M. mariei, Crosse, whose broad shell and immersed spire easily distinguish it. Marginella peasii, Reeve. Tryon, loc. cit., p. 53, pi. xiii., fig. 27. Abundant in a dead state on the sandy beach of the * Melvill & Standen—Loc. cit., viii., p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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