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Admete suteri n. sp, (Plate VI, figs. 5, 5a.) 



Shell small, shortly fusiform ; spire short turreted. Whorls five, the 

 last comparatively large, strongly angled ; protoconch of two smooth 

 rounded whorls, the apex obliquely disposed, thence rapidly increasing ; 

 axially and spirally cancellated, the latter more pronounced and forming 

 small tubercules at the points of intersection ; above the aperture and on 

 the spire-whorls are two small spiral cords, on the last eight narrower than 

 the interspaces, at the anterior extremity finer and closer ; axials seventeen 

 to twenty-one on the last, irregularly developed anteriorly, on the area 

 between suture and angle sharply inclined forward, this area without spiral 

 sculpture ; sutural line undulating, not channelled. Aperture somewhat 

 oblique, outer lip angled above, margin lightly crenulated, grooved within 

 corresponding with the spiral sculpture ; columella short, slightly curved, 

 narrowed and twisted at the extremity, lightly callused, with two well- 

 developed rounded plaits on the middle area and a third more slender on 

 the anterior twist of the columella. 



Length, 8 mm. ; width, 5-25 mm. 



Locality, Target Gully. Collected by Dr. Marshall. 



Type to be presented to the Wanganui Museum. 



Material consists of four examples in a good state of preservation. We 

 name this pretty little shell in memory of our old friend Henry Suter. 



Admete anomala n. sp. (Plate VI, fig. 6.) 



Shell small, elongate ; spire exceeds the aperture in length. Whorls 

 five or six, convex and lightly angled above the middle ; apex blunt, and 

 sculpture (if any) obscure, succeeding whorls spirally and axially ribbed, 

 nodular at the crossings ; axials broad, equal to the interspaces, nine or 

 ten on a whorl, directed slightly forward, feeble above the angle and on 

 approaching the lip ; growth-striae in places well marked v^ith here and 

 there old lip-margins ; spirals narrower than the interspaces, twelve on 

 the last, five on the spire-whorls, one of which is above the angle ; the first 

 threadlet below the angle is much more slender than the others ; a small 

 area at the anterior end smooth. Sutures impressed, slightly undulating. 

 Aperture oval, outer lip uniformly curved, sharp, within the margin a 

 number of smaU elongated denticles ; columella short, curved and obliquely 

 truncated, the extremity slightly twisted to the left, thinly callused and 

 with lAvo small plaits ; the anterior lip produced and on uniting with the 

 columella forms a short wide canal. 



Length, 8 mm. ; width, 3-75 mm. 



Locality, Hampden. Collected by Dr. Marshall. 



Type to be presented to the Wanganui Museum. 



The material consists of a single example. The two denticles only on 

 the columella and the peculiar wide shallow anterior canal are not quite in 

 accord with Admete ; probably it may be allied to Babylonella of Cossmann. 



Fulguraria (Alcithoe) turrita Suter. 

 F. {Alcithoe) arabica var. turrita Sut., N.Z. Geol. Surv. Pal. Bull. 

 No. 5, p. 39, pi. 5, fig. 4, 1917. 

 Examples of this species, of which we have a fairly good series from 

 Nukumaru and Waipipi, agree perfectly with Suter's description and figure. 

 The produced spire and narrow form are constant characters, and some 

 examples have the penultimate and last whorl adorned with small incon- 

 spicuous spiral lines. The general contour is, however, so different from 

 arabica and its var. elongata as to warrant full specific distinction. It is 



