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spire sub-costate ; inner lip smooth, outer rather thin, slightly grooved 

 in the interior; canal short. Greyish brown, with narrow spiral lines, 

 not very close, of brownish black ; columella and canal orange ; 

 inner lip banded with brownish purple and purplish white. Length, 

 T15 ; breadth, '52 ; angle of spire, 45. 



41. B. CinctUHl, Quoy, I.e., ii , p. 413. Shell thick, conical, 

 whorls flat, spirally grooved ; columella wrinkled anteriorly, outer lip 

 dentate and grooved, canal moderate ; a small tooth at the posterior 

 end of the inner lip. White, the ribs brownish red ; interior white. 

 Length, 1'25 ; breadth, - 7 ; angle of spire, 58'. 



Found also at Tongatabou. 



42. B. testudmeiim, Q"oy, I.e., p. 415. Piirpurn maculosa, 

 Gray, Dieff. NZ., ii., p. 233 Shell conical, whorls flattened, smooth ; 

 columella smooth, outer lip thin, creuulated ; canal short. Spirally 

 tesselated with yellowish white and purplish brown ; sometimes pur- 

 plish brown with spiral rows of white spots ; inside dark purple. 

 Length, 1'65 ; breadth, '9 ; angle of spire, 47. 



Common. Chatham Islands. 



* 43. B. gradatum, Deshayes, Anim. sans vert., t.,p. 186 Shell 

 ovato-ventricose, smooth, yellow, ornamented with longitudinal flexuous 

 brown lines ; whorls flat, margined ; aperture ovate, interior yellow, 

 callous above ; lip thin, acute, simple ; columella callous. Length, 3 ; 

 breadth, 1'8. 



New Zealand (Kiener) . 



NASSA. 



Shell-like Buccinum ; columella lip callous, expanded, forming a 

 tooth-liks projection near the anterior canal. 



World-wide. 



I have seen no species of Nassa from New Zealand, and think that 

 there must be some mistake in the localities. 



* 44. N. riltilans, Reeve. Shell accuminately ovate, smooth, 

 shining, variegated longitudinally with ash olive and grey ; spire 

 exserted, thinly plaited at the apex ; columella arched, but little 

 callous ; lip thickly varicose, smooth. 



* 45. N. nigella, Reeve. Shell accuminately ovate, transversely 

 grooved, longitudinally granosely ribbed ; swarthy brown within and 

 without ; columella rather expanded, shining ; lip simple, margined 

 without. 



* 46. ]XT. n.OV3B zealandicB, Reeve. Shell accumiuately conical, 

 mottled black and brown ; spire sharp, with the suture impressed ; 

 whorls slightly angled at the upper part, transversely linearly grooved, 

 longitudinally strongly grain-ribbed ; columella twisted, white ; lip 

 thin, varicose. 



* 47. N. COrticata, Adams. Shell ovately conic, produced at 

 the spire, covered with a greenish brown epidermis ; whorls nodose at 

 the upper part, last whorl ornamented in front with a sub-nodose belt, 

 posteriorly coronated with nodules ; columella but little callous, two- 

 plaited in front ; lip margined outwardly, ridged within. 



