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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.

Cypæa argus, Linne

Cypæa argus, Linne.

Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., 1885, p. 164, pl. i., figs. 1, 2; Garrett, Journ. Conch., ii., 1879, pp. 106, 109.

Dead shells were found on the beach of one of the western islets of Funafuti, and the species was again encountered at Nukulailai.

According to Garrett, this deep water species inhabits the Carolines, Gilberts, Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. Rossiter records it from New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines and the Loyalties. From material in this Museum I add the Solomons, Erromanga and Aneiteum, New Hebrides.

Eossiter—Proc. Linn. Soc N.S.W., vi., 1882, p. 817.