384 GASTROPODA. [Pectinibrunchia. 



3. Cominella Huttoni, Kubelt. 1878. Plate 45, fig. 5. 



Coinini'lki Hut/oni, Kobelt, Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Mai. Ge.s., 1878, 233. Bur- 



ci ii a in rus/n/ii/ii. var., Q. & G., Voy. Astrol., }>\. 30, f. IV). 20. Cominelfu 



(Jiioi/'t/tn, A. Ad., P.Z.S., 1854, 313 ; not C. Quoyi, Kicner. ('. Hit/torn', 

 Kob. : Hutton, M.N.Z.M., 54 ; T.N.Z.I., xvi, 232. 



Shell small, fusiform, solid, with fine spiral grooves and prominent 

 axial costre. turreted, cinereous. Sculpture consisting of broad and 

 flat cinguli. with linear interspaces ; they are either smooth or orna- 

 mented with fine spiral threads, the last on the body-whorl is usually 

 narrower and rounded, 5 on the penultimate and 9 to 10 on the body- 

 whorl : the. axial sculpture consists of straight, thick, and rounded 

 ribs, very low on the shoulder, extending over all the whorls below 

 the protoconch and over part of the base ; the interstices of the same 

 width as the ribs, the number of which is about 14 on the penultimate 

 whorl. Colour p;ile brown or whitish, sometimes marbled with reddish- 

 brown : spiral grooves brown ; aperture and the lips white. Spire 

 elevated conic, turreted, higher than the aperture ; outlines straight. 

 Protoconch minute, papillate, light brown, of 2^ smooth whorls. 

 Whorls 1 to 8, first slowly increasing, with a narrow and slightly con- 

 cave shoulder, lightly convex below ; base flattish, but little con- 

 tracted. Suture impressed, lightly wavy. Aperture subvertical, oval, 

 channelled above, with a short, widely open, and deeply notched 

 canal below. Outer lip angled above, thence convex, sharp, some- 

 what thickened and minutely denticulate, within. Colnnn-lln vertical, 

 arcuate, smooth. Inner lip narrow, extending over the parietal wall, 

 which bears a small tubercle below the suture, drawn out to a long and 

 narrow point below. Fasciole prominent, keeled. Operculutn horny, 

 dark brown, oval, nucleus apical. 



Diameter. 10 mm. : height. 23 mm. 



Annual having slender tentacles, with the eves near the middle. 



Dentition unknown. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Hab. From Cape Maria van Diemen to East Cape, low-water 

 mark to 25 fathoms ; Kermadec Islands. 



Fossil in the Miocene and Pliocene. 



4. Cominella lurida, Philippi, 1848. Plate 45, fig. 6. 



Bucciiiuni luridunt, Phil., Zeitschr. Malac., 1848, 137 : Abbild. & Beschr.. 

 iii, 46, pi. 1, f. 10. Comindlu luridu, Phil. : Hutton, J. de Conch., 1S78. 

 lit; M.N.Z.M., f>4 ; T.N.Z.I., xvi, 233. Buccinwn funereum, Gould. 

 P. Bost. Hoc. N.H., 1850, 152 ; U.S. Expl. Ex.. f. 320. Comindln 

 funeren, Gould: Hutton, J. de Conch.. 1878, 18; M.N.Z.M., 54. 

 Buccinuin zelandicum, Hombr. & Jacq., Voy. P.S., v, 74, pi. 21, f. 5, (i : 

 not of Reeve. B. costatum, Quoy : Hutton. C.M.M.. 14 ; not of Quoy. 

 //. l<ri'i<inlnni. Hutt., C.M.M., 14. 



Shell small, ovate, fairly solid, spirally lirate and axially costate, 

 whorls shouldered. Sculpture consisting of flat spiral lira?, the inter- 

 spaces linear : axial costse are present on all the whorls, protoconch 



