Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

487MOLLUSCA.EDGAH A. SMITH.The following list may be regarded as an appendix to E. vonMartens's work on the Mollusca of the Mauritius and the Seychelles,forming part of Mobius's ' Beitriige zur Meeresfauna der InselMauritius und der Seychellen.'Of the 121 species here recorded, between forty and fifty donot occur in the above work ; and the majority of them, as mightbe expected, are well-known forms.I. GASTROPODA.1. Conus arenatus, Hwass.He des Roches, Amirantes ;sand.and Cerf Island, Mascareues, 10 fms.,2. Conus hebrsBus, Linn.Darros Island, Amirantes, on the shore.3. Conus turriculatus.Sorcerhy, Thesaun(s,i.QA^-'i-, Weinkauff',Conch.-Cab.\>\.69.hgsA0, 11.Conus ucutangukxs, Kiaier (non Chemnitz), Coq. Viv. pi. 72. fig, 1 ;Sotverhy, I. c. fig. 356.Juv. = Conus gemmulatus, Soioerby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, pi. 22.fig. 8.Providence Eeef, Mascarenes, in 24 fms. ; sand and coral bottom.A single specimen from this locality is of the same pale colour,faintly tinged with yellow, as tho type in the British Museum,purchased from tho " Taylor Collection." The original example ofC. gemmulatus is also in the national collection, and proves on comparisonto be merely the young state of the same species.Kiencr and Sowerby are wrong apparently in their identification