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100. C. kirki, /> noo. Whorls flatish, smooth, polished, trans- 

 versely plicated; body whorl small; mouth oval, columella smooth, 

 straight ; canal short, slightly bent to the left. Greyish black, grey- 

 ish, or yellowish white, spirally banded near the mouth with purplish 

 brown. Length, '8 ; breadth, '22 ; angle of spire, 1S. 



Auckland. 



101. C. Cinctum, sp. nov. Whorls flat, deeply spirally grooved ; 

 aperture rounded ; canal very short. Brownish white. Length, '43 ; 

 breadth, '1. 



Stewart's Island, 14 to 30 fathoms. 



102. C. exilis, sp. nov. Whorls flat, deeply spirally grooved, and 

 transversely plicated; sulcus deep; aperture rounded; canal moderate. 

 Light brown. Length '21 ; breadth, '07. 



Stewart's Island, 30 fathoms. 



103. C. (Ino) minimus, sp. nov. Whorls flat, sinistral, 

 spirally grooved and transversely plicated ; aperture rounded ; anterior 

 canal short, recurved, posterior canal very short, open. Pale brown. 

 Length, '25 ; breadth, '7. 



Stewart's Island, 30 fathoms. Bay of Islands. 



FAMILY LITTORINID^E. 



Shell spiral, turbinated or depressed, never pearly ; aperture 

 rounded ; peristome entire ; operculum horny, pauci-spiral ; tenlacula 

 far apart on the side of the head. 



LITTORINA. 



Shell thick, pointed, few-whorled, aperture rounded, outer lip 

 acute ; columella rather flattened ; imperforate. 

 World-wide. 



104. L. Cincta, Quoy, I.e., ii., p. 481. Ovato-conical, spire 

 acute ; body whorl spirally striated ; aperture oval ; columella flattened. 

 Bluish black, with fine spiral bluish white lines ; generally covered 

 with a brown epidermis ; interior deep violet ; columella dark chestnut 

 brown. Length, '^'5 ; breadth, - 5 ; angle of spire, 46. 



105. L. diemenensis, Quoy, I.e., ii., p. 479. Ovato-conical, 

 spire acute, body whorl' lightly spirally striated, sub-carinated in large 

 specimens ; columella flattened. Bluish white, with a broad spiral 

 band of blackish blue on the body whorl ; interior violet with a white 

 band round the mouth. Length, '45 ; breadth, "26 ; angle of spire, 

 43. 



Abundant on rocks near high watermark. Chatham Islands. 

 Australia. Tasmania. 



* 106. L. VlliS, Menke. Shell pyramidally conical, sharp, imper- 

 forated, transversely elevately striated ; greenish grey ; whorls flatly 

 slanting round the upper part, encircled round the middle with two 

 rows of white nodules ; aperture purple brown. -(Reeve.) 



* 107. L. pyramidallS, Desliayes, I.e., is., p. 210. Shell pyra- 

 midally ovate, imperforated, spire turreted ; whorls concavely slanting 



