196 GASTROPODA. [Pectinibranchia. 



2. Realia egea, Gray, 1850. Plate 38, fig. 31. 



JRealia egea, Gray, P.Z.S., 1849 (1850), 107 ; Martini and Chemnitz, Conch. 

 Cab., ed. 2, i, 303, pi. 40, f. 17, 18; Medley and Suter, P.L.S. N.S.W. (2), 

 vii, 622 ; Suter, J. de Conch., xli, 225, pi. 1, f. 1 : Kobelt, Jahrb. Nassau. 

 Ver. f. Nat., lix, 50. 



Shell turreted, subperforate, rather solid. Sculpture formed -by 

 rather distant axial folds. Colour brown with a chestnut-brown 

 band upon the base, or yellowish with lighter or darker zigzag lines, 

 or horny with broad whitish bands. Epidermis rather thin, the 

 axial folds easily worn off, scarcely shining. Spire turreted, twice 

 the height of the aperture. Protoconch small, papillate, of 2 smooth 

 and convex whorls. Whorls 6J, slightly convex, the last distinctly 

 angled below the middle ; base flatly convex, with a low keel round 

 the umbilicus. Suture moderately deep, subplicate. Aperture some- 

 what oblique, ovate. Peristome double, the inner continuous, very 

 little expanded, slightly angled above ; the outer almost interrupted 

 above, dilated, bell-shaped, incurved. Umbilicus very narrow, some- 

 times partly hidden by the peristome. Operculum typical. 



Diameter, 4 mm. ; height, 7-5-8 mm. 



Dentition. Suter, T.N.Z.I., xxiv, 301, pi. 23, f. 57. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Hob. Auckland, type (Greenwood) ; Hunua Range ; Waiwera ; 

 Hillyer's Creek, near Auckland ; Tuakau ; Waiheke Island ; Wanga- 



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3. Realia Hochstetteri, L. Pfeiffer, 1861. Plate 38, fig. 32. 



Realia Hochstetteri, Pfeift'er, Malak. BL, viii, 149 ; Hedley and Suter, P.L.S. 

 N.S.W. (2), vii, 623; Suter, J. de Conch., xli, 227; Kobelt, Jahrb. 

 Nassau. Ver. f. Nat., lix, 51. 



Shell perforated, ovately turreted, rather solid. Sculpture con- 

 sisting of fine and close radiate strise on the third whorl, the succeeding 

 ones distantly axially plaited. Colour fuscous, sometimes with a few 

 yellowish streaks. Epidermis thin, usually polished. Spire convexly 

 turreted, twice the height of the aperture. Protoconch depressed 

 globose, of 2 smooth and convex whorls, the last half-turn sometimes 

 radiately striate. Whorls 7|, slightly convex, the last below the 

 middle subacutely carinated ; base flatly convex, with a small keel 

 around the perforation. Suture inconsiderable, bound with a thread- 

 like margin. Aperture vertical, ovately rotund, subangulated above. 

 Peristome double, the inner one scarcely elevated, the outer one 

 broadly expanded, concentrically striated, narrow and adnate at the 

 contiguous whorl. Perforation narrow, open. Operculum typical. 



Diameter, 4 mm. ; length, 9 mm. 



Dentition unknown. 



Type in the K.K. Hofmuseum, Vienna. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, type (Hochstetter) ; Whangarei ; Darga- 

 ville ; Broadwood, Hokianga. 



