The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Mitra litterata, Lamarck
Mitra litterata, Lamarck.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 155, pl. xlvi., figs. 338, 339; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 5, 33.
In profusion in the rock pools on the ocean beach of Funafuti.
Garrett has traced this from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Cook's, Society, and Paumotus, to Hawaii. Melvill and Standen note it from the Loyalties.* From Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, and Fanning Island, there are instances in the Museum collection.
* Melvill & Standen—Loc. cit., viii., p. 101.