Cominillo.] GASTROPODA. 389 



Remarks. - - This subantarctic species is very variable. The 

 Chatham Island specimens are generally large and more inflated, 

 and Hutton separated them in 1873 as var. B. The C. nodicincta, 

 \. Mts., is most likely this variety, but shells nearly approaching it 

 occur also in Foveaux Strait. 



Fossil. Miocene and Pliocene. 



8. Cominella Quoyi, Kiener, 1834. Plate 18, fig. 11. 



JBuccinum Quoyi, Kiener, Icon. Coq. Viv., Buccinum, 10, pi. 5, f. 13; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon., iii, pi. 13. f. 107. Cominella Quoyi, Kien. : Hutton, J. de 

 Conch., 1878, 18; M.N.Z.M., 54; Tryon, Man. Conch. (1), iii. 204, 

 pi. 80, f. 418. 



Shell ovately oblong, with numerous revolving striae and axial ribs 

 on the spire- whorls. Colour reddish-brown, yellowish-brown within 

 the aperture. Spire sharp, height somewhat less than that of the 

 aperture. Whorls 7, the last high. Aperture oval, channelled above, 

 with a short and open canal below. Outer lip arched, lirate inside. 

 Cvlumella almost straight. 



Diameter, 17mm. ; height, 31-5 mm. (taken from the figure). 



Type in the Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris. 



Hob. New Zealand. 



Remarks. It seems that only one specimen is in the Paris Museum, 

 which was given to Kiener by Quoy and Gaimard. I have never seen 

 a New Zealand shell which would correspond with the figure and short 

 diagnosis of this species. It is evidently nearly allied to C. virgata, 

 H. and A. Adams, but it is broader, and the revolving striae are much 

 more numerous ; the spire is lower, with an angle of about 57, against 

 45 in C. virgata. Until specimens are forthcoming, it seems safest 

 to treat it as a distinct species. 



9. Cominella virgata, H. and A. Adams, 1853. Plate 45, fig. 10. 



Cominella virgata, H. & A. Ad., Ad. G.R.M., i, 110, 1853, pi. 11, f. 6; Hutton. 

 J. de Conch., 1878, 18 ; T.N.Z.I., xvi, 232. Buccinum lineola/uni, 

 Q. & G., Voy. Astrol., ii, 419, pi. 30, f. 14-Ki. Cominella lineolata, 

 Lam. : Hutton, M.N.Z.M., 53 ; not of Lamarck. C. lineolata virgata, 

 H. and A. Adams, Man. Conch. (1), iii, 205, pi. 81, f. 425-29. 



Shell rather small, fusiform, solid, with distant spiral brown lines, 

 upper whorls costate. Sculpture : There are distant fine spiral lirse. 

 generally 2 on the upper whorls, 3 on the penultimate, and 7 to 8 on 

 the body-whorl ; the interstices with fine spiral threads, but sometimes 

 the shell is devoid of spiral ornamentation ; the spire-whorls below 

 the protoconch are axially costate, the costaa not extending over the 

 body-whorl, about 12 on a whorl, broadly rounded and obsolete below 

 the suture. Colour cinereous or light brown, the cinguli brown, not 

 interrupted, sometimes the spirals or most of them are absent, the 

 shell light grey, with longitudinal black or brown flammules and 

 zigzag bands ; columella bright orange. Spire elevated conic, usually 



