86 "TERRA NOVA" EXPEDITION. 



and rather a feeble columollar callus. This species has not been recorded from New 

 /caland. It has a wide distribution from South Africa to the Pacific. 



20. Valuta (Air/time) ani/i/i-if, var. <](>j>rex*a. PI. I, figs. 26, 27. 



Buccinum r<ili!i-ut, Martyn, Univ. Conch., vol. II, fig. 52 (1784). 



Fttlyitrarm (Alcithi'f) uralii-n : Suter, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 445 (for synonymy), pi. XLVIII, 



' %. 5- 

 Var. Fulguraria (Alcitlioe) depressa, Suter, op. cifc., p. 447, pi. XLVIII, ng. 7. 



Station 134, near North Cape, New Zealand : 11-20 fathoms.. 



Beyond the fact that the spire is less produced, I do not observe any distinguishing 

 feature in Mr. Suter's I '. <l< j j>rcsa. The character of the markings, uodulatiou of the 

 whorls, and the columellar folds are precisely the same as in the typical form. 



21. Valuta (Alcithoe) gracilis, Swaiusou. 



Valuta gracilis, Swainson, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. Arts, vol. XVII, p. 32 (1824). 



Cymliiola gracilis, Swainson, Exotic Conch., ed. 2, p. 20, pi. XLII. 



Fulguraria (AlcMoc) gracilin : Suter, Man. N.Z. Moll., p. 448, pi. XLVIII, fig. 8. 



Station. Mouth of Bay of Islands, 20 fathoms ; Station 90, Three Kings Islands, 

 100 fathoms ; Station 134, near North Cape, New Zealand, 11-20 fathoms. 



The generic name used by Mr. Suter is given Fulgoraria by Schumacher, not 

 Fulguraria ; and the species described in 1824 apparently was not figured in the first 

 edition of the " Exotic Couchology." 



22. Aricilla iinii'i'iiiiiifa (Sowerby). 



Ancillaria mitcronata, Sowerby, Species Conchyl., p. 8, figs. 47, 48 (1830) ; Kiener, Coq. Viv., 



p. 7, pi. Ill, fig. 3 (1843). 



Ancillaria pyramidalis, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. XV, pi. IV, tigs. llA-llo (1864). 

 Var. Ancillaria mucronata: Sowerby, jun., Thesaurus Conch., vol. Ill, p. 63, pi. 211, fig. 11 : 



Reeve, op. cit. pi. IV, figs. lOA-lOu. 



Station 134, near North Cape, New Zealand : 11-20 fathoms. 



The figure 47 in Sowerby 's " Species Conchyliorum " is a good representation of 

 A. /ii/niiii'xlitUx, Eeeve. It shows the acuminate spire of that so-called species, and not 

 the more obtuse and callose spire of A. ntui'mnata, as depicted in the "Thesaurus 

 Couchyliorum " (fig. 11), and by Reeve (figs. lOA-lOn). 



However, I consider that these two forms are not specifically separable. The 

 type (= i>i/ra initial IN) is rather broader than the variety (= miteronata, auctt), besides 

 having the more acute spire; but in the British Museum collection intermediate 

 examples occur. 



Weiukauff* and Suter f have placed Reeve's j\>/r<nni< lalis in the synonymy, or as a 



* Conch. Cab. Ancillaria, p. Hi. 

 t Man. N.Z. Moll, p. 452. 



