414 GASTROPODA. [Pectin ibranchia. 



Hab. Whangaroa Harbour, type (C. Traill) ; near Channel Is- 

 land, Hauraki Gulf, in 25 fathoms ; Foveaux Strait and Stewart Is- 

 land ; Takapuna (H. S.) ; Bounty and Snares Islands, in 50 fathoms 

 (Captain Bollons). 



10. Trophon erectus, Suter, 1909. Plate 19, fig. 7. 



Trophon erectus, Suter, Subantarctic Islds. N.Zeal., i, 1909, 27. T. 

 columnaris, Suter, P. Mai. S., viii, 178, pi. 7, f. 1 ; not T. columnar iu-y, 

 Hedley, 1908. 



Shell very small, turreted, fusiform, thin, with a sharp spire, very 

 strong axial ribs and distant spiral cords. Sculpture consisting of 

 distant high and rounded axial ribs, obsolete on the shoulder and 

 the lower part of the base ; about 9 on a whorl, crossed by rather 

 distant spiral cords, absent upon the shoulder. 3 on the spire- whorls, 

 and about 9 on the body- whorl, the lowest of which is more prominent ; 

 they pass over the axial ribs, usually without becoming nodulous ; 

 fasciole not very well marked. Colour fulvous, rarely with a white 

 band below the angle of the whorls ; aperture light brown inside. 

 Spire elevated conic, turreted, of the same height as the aperture 

 with canal. Protoconch small, papillate, of 1| smooth and convex 

 whorls, the globose nucleus slightly excentric. Whorls 6, regularly 

 increasing, with a narrow concave shoulder, convex below ; base 

 contracted above the canal. Suture not deep, undulating. Aperture 

 oblique, narrowly oval, broadly angled above, produced below into a 

 short, slightly oblique, and recurved open canal. Outer lip sharp, 

 strengthened by an axial rib, angled above, smooth inside. Columella 

 vertical, straight, twisted and narrowed below. Inner Up thin and 

 narrow, Spreading over the lightly excavated parietal wall, narrowed 

 below. There is no umbilical fissure. Operculum unknown. 



Diameter, 4-3 mm. ; height, 8-3 mm. 



Animal unknown. 



Type in my collection. 



Hab. Near the Bounty Islands (type) and Snares, in 50 fathoms 

 (Captain Bollons). 



Remark. This shell has the aspect of a miniature of T. Paivce ; 

 however, the axial sculpture is bolder, and the spirals are more distant 

 and much less numerous in consequence. 



11. Trophon inferus, Hutton, 1873. Plate 46, fig. 17. 



Fusus inferus, Hutt., C.M.M., 9. Trophon inferus, Hutt., J. de Conch., 1878, 

 13; M.N.Z.M., 48; Man. Conch. (1), ii. 145. Kalydon inferus, Hutt., 

 T.N.Z.I., xvi, 221. 



Shell small, ovate-fusiform, fairly solid, spirally lirate, the last 

 whorl sometimes costate. Sculpture consisting of fine spiral riblets, 

 the interstices shallow, a little broader than the riblets, and containing 

 sometimes a fine spiral thread ; on the last whorl irregularly spaced 



