TORNATELLINA. 181 



I. perplexa group. A paraneanic shell is like the adult ex- 

 cept for its more fragile lip. No young specimens were sent; 

 so that its sectional position is not free from doubt. It differs 

 obviously from all species found in Australia, New Zealand 

 and New Caledonia. 



40. T. NOVOSEELANDICA Pfeiffer. PI. 38, figs. 1, 2. 



Shell obloug-turrite, thin, smooth, glossy, fulvous-corneous. 

 Spire turrite, rather acute. Whorls 5, a little convex, the last 

 nearly one-third the total length, rounded at base. Parietal 

 lamella deep, of moderate size. Columella white-calloused, 

 highly twisted-subtruncate. Aperture slightly oblique, sub- 

 auriforni. Peristome thin, acute. Length 3.5, diam. 1.5, aper- 

 ture 1.33 mm. long (Pfr.). 



New Zealand (Strange) : North Island at Whangarei Heads 

 (C. Cooper), near Auckland (Major Greenwood), Thames 

 (Adams), Hunua Range (Brown) and Waimarama; very 

 often found on fronds of Hymenopkyllum (Suter). 



Tornatcllina novoseelandica PFR., P. Z. S., 1852, p. 149 

 (June 27, 1854) ; Monographia Hel. Viv., iii, 524 (1853) ; iv, 

 651 ; vi, 263. KUESTER, Conchyl. Cab., Pupa, p. 149, pi. 18, 

 f. 10, 11. HEDLEY & SUTER, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2), 

 vii, 1892, p. 660. SUTER, Journ. de Conchyl., xli, 1893, p. 

 236 ; Manual of the N. Z. Moll., p. 769. Tornatellina neoze- 

 htnica Pfr., HUTTON, Trans. New Zealand Institute, xvi, 191. 

 Elasmatina rechisiana GRAY, P. Z. S., 1849. p. 167 (Auck- 

 land), not of Petit. 



A minute, slender, imperforate species, having the colu- 

 rnellar fold unusually strong, and the whorls of the spire quite 

 convex, the last whorl much less so. The parietal lamella 

 runs deeply into the aperture. Fig. 2 is a copy of Kuester's 

 illustration of Pfeiffer 's type. Fig. 1 was drawn from a spe- 

 cimen received from Mr. Suter, length 3 mm. (The size-mark 

 on the plate is too long.) 



41. T. JACKSONENSIS (Cox). PL 38, figs. 5, 6. 



"Shell subperf orate, oblong- turre ted, very thin, translu- 

 cent, rather shining, smooth, under the lens showing faint 



