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.
Mitra Brunnea, Pease
Mitra Brunnea, Pease.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 153, pl. xlv., fig. 301; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 5, 33.
A single specimen from Funafuti.
Garrett enumerates the known localities for this rather rare species: Fiji, Samoa, Carolines, Cook's, Society, Paumotus, and Hawaii. There is a specimen in this Museum from Howland's Island, North-Central Pacific; and Langkavel reports it from the neighbouring Baker's Island. P. P. Carpenter asserts,* and Pease denies,† that M. brunnea is a synonym of Strigatella fusce-scens, Pease, from Hawaii.
* Carpenter—Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 517.
† Pease—Am. Journ. Conch., iii., 1867, p. 233.