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The area around Mokolea Rock provides excellent shelling for the scuba diver who has a boat available for transportation to
and from the diving area. The ocean bottom in the vicinity of the island is basically sand and coral rubble with scattered
coral chunks and rock slabs. Shells collected from this area, mostly by scuba divers, include the following:
Bursa affinis - under coral
B. crenulata - under coral
Trochus intextus - on coral heads
Murex pele - under coral chunks
Cypraea granulata - 50' under coral
C. maculifera - shallow on rocks
C. tessellata - 50' under coral
C. carneola - 40' under coral
C. chinensis - 50' under rocks
C. schilderorum - 60' under rocks
C. poraria - 60' under coral
C. helvola - shallow, on coral and rocks,
C. fimbriata - 50' under coral,
Cymatium pileare - under coral,
Distorsio anus - in coral heads,
Colubraria muricata - under coral,
several Drupa species - on rocks and coral,
Latirus nodus - on hard bottom,
Oliva sandwichensis - in sand at 50',
Pyramidella sulcata - in sand in 50',
Conus litoglyphus - on coral,
Conus textile - under coral
C. bandandus - under coral
C. vexillum - under coral
C. striatus - under coral
C. pulicarius - under sand
C. abbreviatus - under coral
C. obscurus - under coral
C. moreletti - under coral
Mokomanu Island is known more for its spearfishing than for shell collecting. However, many excellent shells have come from
this rocky, interesting, island. Collecting around Mokumanu is strictly for scuba divers with considerable ability. Also all
diving must be done from a boat, and the boat operator must be experienced. Huge waves wash up onto the shelving sides of the
island and fall back into the sea with considerable violence causing rough water and back wash. The channel between Mokumanu
and Mokapu Point is sometimes hazardous and most boat operators avoid passing through this narrow passage. Strong currents
are sometimes met with but the greatest hazard is from the heavy cross-chop that develops when the swells bouncing off the
vertical cliffs of Mokapu Peninsula meet the incoming seas. Particularly this area must be avoided when strong trades are
blowing.
"Strombus solitaris Perry, 1811 (Arcana, London, vol. 1, part 2, signature Dd', {pl. 52} is a poorly illustrated and
inadequately described species from 'Africa and the East Indies,' and, although somewhat resembling S. oldi, is undoubtedly a
synonym of the Caribbean S. gallus Linné, 1758, by virtue of the lower spire, the larger and fewer shoulder knobs and the
slender, narrow wing-like projection on the upper end of the outer lip. Perry's locality is undoubtedly erroneous.
"I take pleasure in naming, this new species in honor of Mr. Old, who immediately recognized the significance of his
discovery."
The beautiful island of Maui was the setting for a three day diving trip by nine members of the Sea Lancers Diving Club of
Hickam Air Force Base. They were greeted and made welcome by members of the Philippine Malacological Society, Dr. and Mrs.
Dean Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kern, and Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Gage, who were pleased that several of the Sea Lancers were also
members of HMS and fellow shell collectors. The Sea Lancers were shown safe diving areas and treated to a picnic by their
hosts. Needless to say the Lancers returned home safely and loaded (with shells that is). Among the assortment of shells were
Conus quercinus, Conus suturatus, Cypraea gaskoini, Cypraea poraria, and Fusinus sandwichensis.
During the past few years, Mr. Aryeh Hadar of Tel-Aviv, Israel has collected 214 cowrie shells on the beach at Tel-Aviv: 95
shells have been kindly presented to us so that we could personally measure their length by caliper; the remaining 119 shells
are still in Mr. Hadar's collection. He gave us the exact length of each specimen. These beach shells include 42 Luria lurida
lurida (Linnaeus), 154 Erosaria spurca spurca (Linnaeus), and 18 Zonaria pyrum maculosa (Gmelin).
The following table [below] indicates the number of measured specimens (put in diagonal bracket [eliminated in this HTML
table]), the limits of the lengths of two-thirds of specimens most approaching the median, i.e. approximately the range of
the standard deviation, and the median (put in parentheses between these two figures). The left column refers to specimens
coming from various localities in the whole of the Mediterranean, Tel-Aviv excluded: they have been measured by ourselves.
The right column refers to the shells from Tel-Aviv.
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