EndodoiiJa. \ ttAS'i lu M-oDA . 695 



strife, dolour yellowish-white, handed with brown streaks. 

 backwards. Spire slightly raised, convex. Protoconch of li con- 

 vex volutions. Whorls 6, convex, very slowly increasing ; periphery 

 and base, rounded. Suture well impressed. A perture rotundly lunar, 

 slightly oblique, within with 12 lamellae 3 on the parietal wall, the 

 lowest stronger than the others ; 1 on the columellar hp, large, tongue- 

 shaped . 8 fine long and slender lamellae on the outer wall, the lower 

 four somewhat closer together. Peristome straight, acute. Colu- 

 mella very short, oblique. Perforation narrow, deep, open. 



Diameter, 2-25 mm. ; height, 1-5 mm. (type). 



Dentition, Suter, T.N.Z.I., xxiv. 298, pi. 23, f. 43, 44. 



Jaw vertically faintly striated. 



Radula having the formula 90 x 11 + 4+1 + 4+11 ; norm:i.l. 



Type in my collection. 



Hob. -North Island : VVhangarei ; Wade ; Thames ; Auckland : 

 Waiheke Island; Waitakerei Range; Tnakau ; Hiuma Range; Roto- 

 rua; Mount Egmont, 3,000ft. to 4,500 It. (R. Murdoch): Wanganui ; 

 Mount Pirongia ; Seventy -mile Bush ; Forty-mile Bush, type (H. S.) ; 

 Taupo ; Kaiti, Gisborne ; Ohaupo ; Heretaunua, ; Waimarama ; 

 Toko, near Stratford. South Island : Ke.nepuru. 



9. Endodonta ureweraensis, Suter, 1899. Plate 27. tig. 11, a, />. 



Eridodonla (Ptyrhodori) ureweraensis, Suter, '. Mai., vii, Oct. 1899, 53, pi. 3, 

 f. 7-10. 



Shell minute, depressed globose, perforated, closely ribbed. Sculp- 

 ture consisting of fine and close flexuous radial riblets, about 15 per 

 millimetre, finer and closer on the protoconch ; interstices with minute 

 growth-lines, reticulated by microscopic spiral strise extending over 

 all whorls. Colour yellowish-white, irregularly and zigzag banded 

 with rufous. Spire not high, conoidal. Protoconch of 1^ convex 

 turns. Whorls 5|. flatly rounded, periphery regularly convex, base 

 flattish, impressed in the middle ; the volutions first slowly then a 

 little more rapidly increasing. Suture impressed. Aperture subver- 

 tical, lunar, within with 11 laminae 2 on the parietal wall, the lower 

 high, rather stout and long, situated a little below the middle, the 

 upper lamella half-way between the lower lamella and the upper 

 margin, far back in the mouth in adult specimens, thread-like ; 1 

 lamella on the columellar lip, forming a long sharply pointed tooth ; 

 on the outer wall there arc 8 long narrow subequidistant thread-like 

 folds. Peristome straight, acute, margins distant. Columella short, 

 oblique ; the lip not reflexed above. Perforation minute, open. 



Diameter, 2'8mm.; height. l'5mm. 



Animal unknown. 



Type in my collection. 



flab. Ngaputahi, Drawers country (A. Hamilton). 



