. 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. 550 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Ccecum vertebrate—off Tutaga in 45 - 52, 50 - 60, and 200 fathoms; off Beacon Islet (Funamanu), at 150; and in 36 fathoms north; and 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava. This is evidently from its abundance a native of the deeper water. Some of the examples from 150 and 200 fathoms have a few brown blotches on the shell. Ccecum gulosum—dredged at every station with C, vertebrate. Columbella varians
. 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. 550 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Ccecum vertebrate—off Tutaga in 45 - 52, 50 - 60, and 200 fathoms; off Beacon Islet (Funamanu), at 150; and in 36 fathoms north; and 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava. This is evidently from its abundance a native of the deeper water. Some of the examples from 150 and 200 fathoms have a few brown blotches on the shell. Ccecum gulosum—dredged at every station with C, vertebrate. Columbella varians—36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava. Marginella iota—36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava, off Beacon Islet (Funamanu) in 150, and off Tutaga in 45 — 52 and -00 fathoms. Marginella sandivicensis—150 fathoms off Beacon Islet (Funa- manu). Olivella simplex—36 fathoms N. of Pava. Those species which are either new to science or have not been yet recorded from Funafuti are as under. CEPHALOPODA. Octopus tonganus, Hoyle. Hoyle, Chall. Rep., Zool., xvi., 1886, p. 83, pi. viii., figs. 1, 2. One male specimen was procured in the lagoon by Mr. A. E. Finckh. The species has only been found before at Tonga. POLYPLACOPHERA. Tonicia sp. (Fig. 59.) A single mutilated median valve of a Chiton was obtained at a depth of 150 fathoms off Beacon Islet (Funamanu). Such features as it has, point to an affinity with T. con/ossa, Gould. The rarity of this group in the Central Pacific renders the occurrence of this fragment note- worthy. Only six species were known to Harper Pease from the Central Pacific. In his last paper he stated that,—" The absence of Chitonidfe from Polynesia has been noticed by authors as a remarkable fact, abounding as they do* in the surrounding pro- vinces, especially on the west coast of America, at Australia and New ;! * The Chitons not the authors. t Pease—Am. Journ. Conch., vii., 1872, p. Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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