350 GASTROPODA. [Pectinibranchift. 



Type, from the Pliocene, in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. 

 Hob. Near Stewart Island, in about 15 fathoms (A. Hamilton) ; 

 near the Snares, in 50 fathoms (Captain Bollons). 



Remark. The type has a height of 4 mm., and 6 whorls only. 

 Fossil in the Pliocene. 



7. Eulima truncate, Suter, 1908. Plate IT, fig. 16. 



Eulima truncata, Suter, T.N.Z.I., xl, 1907 (1908), 368, pi. 29, f. 17. 



Shell very small, subcylindrical, thin and polished, semitrans- 

 parent, straight. There is no sculpture and no varices. Colour white. 

 Spire very narrowly conic, a little more than twice the height of 

 the aperture ; outlines straight. Protoconch high, obtusely rounded. 

 Whorls 5, regularly increasing, flat ; base flattish, elongated. Suture 

 linear, superficial, false-margined below. Aperture subvertical, lan- 

 ceolar, high and narrow, sharply angled above and acuminate below. 

 Outer lip straight above, rounded towards the base, thin and sharp. 

 Columella short, truncated at the base ; parietal wall slightly concave. 

 Operculum unknown. 



Diameter, 1 mm. ; height, 3 mm. 



Animal unknown. 



Type in my collection. 



Hob. Cape Maria van Diemen, type (Captain Bollons). 



Remark. The specimen, of 5 whorls only, is no doubt not quite 

 full grown. 



8. Eulima vegrandis, Murdoch and Suter, 1906. Plate 17, fig. 17. 



Eulima vegrandis, M. & S., T.N.Z.I., xxxviii, 1905 (1906), 297, pi. 25, 

 . f. 40, 41. 



Shell small, subulate, straight, smooth and glossy. Sculpture 

 absent, except an occasional interrupted varix. Colour white, por- 

 cellanous. Spire straight, about three times the height of the aper- 

 ture ; outlines straight. Protoconch of about 2 smooth whorls, very 

 slightly curved from the axis of the shell, nucleus minute, rounded. 

 Whorls 11, with straight sides, the last indistinctly angled at the peri- 

 phery ; base convex. Suture linear, false-margined between the lower 

 whorls. Aperture slightly oblique, pyriform, angled above, rounded 

 and a little effuse at the base. Outer Up lightly curved and thickened, 

 feebly sinuated below the insertion. Columella short, arcuate. Inner 

 lip reflected and united with the basal lip, spread narrowly as a distinct 

 callus over the parietal wall. Operculum unknown. 



Diameter, 1-9 mm. ; height, 6-9 mm. 



Animal unknown. 



Type in the Dominion Museum, Wellington. 



Hob. Off Great Barrier Island, in 110 fathoms (type). 



