Turbo setosus, Gmelin.

Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 195, pl. lxiii., fig. 32.

Abundant on the east coast of the atoll at low water on the outer reef.

Fischer cites this species from New Caledonia, Tahiti, Paumotus, Marquesas, and Gilberts; Schmeltz adds Samoa. It is also shown in this Museum from the Solomons.

The opercula of the Funafuti examples agree with Fischer's description,^* but not with Pilsbry's, being white and smooth, except on the distal margin, where they are brown and obliquely wrinkled.