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RE P T I L IA.
BY
ALBERT GÜNTHER.
T aa’o R e p t il e s only -were obtained, viz. the widely-spread Hemi-
dactylus frenatus, on Eagle Island, Amirantes; and Gerrhonotus
madagascariensis, on Glorioso Island.
MOLLUSCA.
BY
EDGAR A. SMITH.
T h e following list may he regarded as an appendix to E. von
Martens’s work on the Mollusca of the Mauritius and the Seychelles,
forming part of Mobius’s ‘ Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel
Manritius und der Seychellen.’
Of the 121 species here recorded, between forty and hity do
uot occur in the above work; and the majority of them, as might
be expected, are well-known forms.
I. G A STR O PO D A .
1. Conus arenatus, Hwass.
He des Roches, Amirantes ; and Cerf Island, Mascarenes, 10 fms.,
sand.
2. Couus hehrseus, Linn.
Darros Island, Amirantes, on the shore.
3. Conus turriculatns.
Sowerhy, Thesaurus,i.643-4-, Weinhauff,Conch.-Cah.p\.G9.iiga.\0, 11.
Conus acutangulus, Kiener {non Chemnitz), Coq. Viv. pi. 72. fig. 1;
Soiverhy, I. c. fig. 356.
Juv. = Conus gemmulatus, Soiverhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, pi. 22.
fig. 8.
Providence Reef, 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 the type in the British Museum,
purchased from tho “ Taylor Collection.” The original example of
C. gemmulatus is also in the national collection, and proves on comparison
to be merely the young state of the same species.
Kiener and Sowerby are wrong apparently in their identification
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