Littorina obesa, Sowerby.

Tryon, loc. cit., p. 247, pl. xliii., fig. 53.

In great profusion at and above high water-mark, on stones and even tree stems, on the windward beach of the atoll, in com-pany with Nerita, Truncatella, and Melampus.

Recorded by Melvill and Standen from Lifu, by Smith^* from Rotuma, and shown in this Museum from Eddystone Island (Solomons), Vate (New Hebrides), the Gilberts, and Fanning Island.