Turritella.'} GASTROPODA. 269 



Remarks. Miss J. Donald mentions (P. Mai. S., iv, 50) that in the 

 British Museum, Cuming collection, there are of T. sinuata, Reeve, 

 six specimens from Stewart Island, and two from New Zealand. I 

 have, seen a good many specimens of Turritella from all parts of New 

 Zealand, but I never came across the Australian T. sinuata, nor the 

 Tasmanian T. quadrata, Donald, either Recent or fossil. If the 

 specimens in the British Museum mentioned by Miss Donald are really 

 T. sinuata, then the locality stated is most likely wrong. 



4. Turritella fulminata, Hutton, 1873. Plate 39, fig. 18. 



Turritella fulminata., Hutt., C.M.M., 29 ; J. de Conch., xxvi, 29 ; M.N.Z.M., 

 84 ; P.L.S. N.S.W., ix, 939 ; Index, 76 ; Murdoch and Suter, T.N.Z.I.. 

 xxxviii, 292. 



Shell turreted, narrow and high, with 2 prominent spirals and 

 undulating longitudinal brown markings. Sculpture : The first two 

 whorls smooth, the third and fourth with 2 spirals ; on the succeeding 

 whorls fine threads are intercalated, varying in number, but the two 

 original spirals always remaining more prominent : these spirals divide 

 the whorl into 3 subequal sections : body-whorl keeled ; base with 

 numerous spiral lines : growth-lines very fine, close, sinuate on the 

 middle of the whorls, more distinct and oblique upon the base. Colour 

 cinereous, with longitudinal undulating markings of reddish-brown. 

 Spire high, narrowly conic ; outlines straight. Protoconch consisting 

 of 2 convex, white, smooth whorls. The whorls in large specimens 

 number up to 20, but the specimens usually found have about 15 ; 

 they are sloping from the suture to the first main spiral ; the following 

 two sections are slightly concave ; base flat. Suture distinct, but not 

 much impressed. Aperture subquadrangular, rounded above, flat at 

 the base, and angled ; slightly effuse. Outer lip sharp, with a mode- 

 rately deep inframedian rounded sinus. Columella vertical, a little 

 arcuate, sharp. Inner lip spreading a little beyond the columella 

 above, and forming a very thin shining callous layer on the parietal 

 wall. 



Diameter, 7 mm. ; height, 24mm. (specimen of 14 whorls). Dia- 

 meter, 7-5 mm. ; height, 31mm. (type). Angle of spire, 15-18. 



Animal unknown. 



Type, in the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 



Hob. Great Barrier Island (type) ; Auckland Harbour, on rocks 

 near low-water mark ; near Channel Island, Hauraki Gulf, in 25 

 fathoms ; off Great Barrier Island, in 110 fathoms ; Bay of Islands. 



Remarks. Von Martens thought this species to be near T. tas- 

 manica. Reeve, but I am informed by Mr. Hedley that this is known 

 only from a single worn shell h the British Museum. Tate and May 

 exclude it from their catalogue, Possibly it is exotic. 



Fossil in the Pliocene. 



