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Recently I received for examination two rather well preserved beach shells which exactly agree with the holotype of
rabaulensis in all essential details. They were collected on the beach at the type locality, Rabaul (New Britain), by Mrs.
Nan Van Eck. Their present owner, Mrs. Myrtle Lee, Maroochydore (Queensland), kindly permitted the publication of the
photograph. The formula (length in mm./ breadth in per cent, number of labial : columellar teeth) of the holotype was
24.1/53, 21:23, that of the new specimens is 20.4/50, 22:24 (figured above) and 23.1/52, 22:23. Therefore the new specimens
are slightly smaller and narrower, but the relative closeness of the teeth is very similar to the holotype of rabaulensis.
The teeth are far less numerous than in the allied species katsuae, martini, and superstes. The two beach shells are rather
bleached, but they distinctly show traces of the four dorsal zones and the lateral spots clearly shown in the holotype.
Mr. W.E. Old Jr. just informed me that the American Museum of Natural History in New York has acquired a fourth rabaulensis.
It is a beach shell of 19.5 mm, and also came from Rabaul!
Undoubtedly further dredging in deep water off Rabaul and careful examination of the small beach cowries will provide still
more specimens of this rare, but no longer unique species.
Dr. Eli de Carvalho Rios (Oceanographical Museum of Rio Grande do Sul) has informed me, that Mr. H. Matthews has discovered
two Pustularia surinamensis Perry (=bicallosa Gray) in the stomach do the fish "Pacamum" (Amphicthys cryptocentrus) caught on
March 30, 1966, in 15 fathoms off Fortaleza in the Brazilian province of Ceará. The photograph represents the fine
reddish-saffron shell now preserved in the collection of Dr. Rios (no. 11,160). See figs. figs. 1 and 2 above. The other
specimen is in coll. Matthews.
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