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.
Melampus Luteus, Quoy & Gaimard
Melampus Luteus, Quoy & Gaimard.
Kuster, loc. cit., p. 29, pl. vi., figs. 1–3.
Extremely abundant at and above high water-mark, among stones and vegetation.
Tapparone Canefri traces this through the following archipelagoes: New Guinea, New Ireland, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Samoa, Ellice, Gilberts, Society, and Carolines. Crossed‡ reports it from Woodlark Island on the authority of Montrouzier; and Museum material enables me to add the Solomons.
‡ ‡ Crosse—Journ. de Conch,, xlii., 1894, p. 323.