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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.

Purpura Hippocastaneum, Lamarck

Purpura Hippocastaneum, Lamarck.

Tryon, loc. cit., p. 162, p1. xlv., figs. 36-43; p1. xlvi., fig. 45.

Abundant on the outer reef of Funafuti. Tryon quotes this from the Paumotus, and Paumotus, and Melvill and Standen from the Loyalty. In this Museum are instances from Queensland, Fiji, and the solomons. Both Cooke* and Smith condemn the treatment of the species in the reference quoted above, but, unfortunately for puzzled students, both think it "needless to discuss the matter at lenght."

The species seems to me stand nearer sistrum than Purpura The natives called this "matapoto."

* Cooke-Journ. Conch., v., 1888, p. 323.

Smith-Proc. Zool. Soc., 1891, p.408