130 Transactions. 



Art. XVII. — New Species of Mollusca, froyn various Dredgings taken 



off the Coast of New Zealand, the Snares Islands, and the Bounty 



Islands. 



By Miss M. K. Mestayer. 



Communicated by E. L. Mestayer. 



[i?effl(Z before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 24th July, 1918 ; received by Editors, 

 30th August, 1918 ; issued separately, 26th May, 1919.] 



Plate VIII. 



The species described or referred to in the following paper were, with one 

 exception, obtained from dredgings taken by Captain Bollons, of the s.s. 

 " Hinemoa," in various parts of the Hauraki Gulf, off the North Cape, 

 and off the Bounty and Snares Islands. Scissurella regia and DiscoheUx 

 hedlei/i, of which the dimensions are for the first time given, are from 

 dredgings off the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape. 



I wish to acknowledge my great indebtedness to Mr. C. Hedley, 

 Dr. J. A. Thomson, and the late Mr. H. Suter for their unfailing kindness 

 and help ; and to Miss J. K. Allan for the trouble she has taken over the 

 drawings from which the figures are prepared. 



Family SCISSURELLIDAE. 



Scissurella regia Mestayer. 



I take this opportunity of correcting an oversight in connection with 

 my paper in vol. 48 of the Transactions.* In the description of Scissurella 

 regia on page 124 the measurements of the holotype were accidentally 

 omitted. They are as follows: Height, 2 mm.; major diameter, 2'5mm. ; 

 minor diameter, 2 mm. 



At the same time I record the finding of two imperfect specimens — one 

 in a dredging taken by the " Nora Niven," sixty miles east of Lyttelton, 

 in 100 fathoms, and the other in a dredging in Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky 

 Sound. A wider range is indicated for this species than at first supposed. 



Schismope subantarctica Hedley. 



This species occurs at Lyall Bay, Wellington, N.Z. It was described by 

 Hedleyf from the Macquarie Islands. I found it also in a dredging off the 

 Snares Islands in 50 fathoms. 



Family LIOTIIDAE Gray. 



Genus Liotia Gray, 1847. 

 Liotia suteri n. sp. (Plate VIII, figs. 1-.3.) 



Bounty Islands ; 70 fathoms. 



Shell small, somewhat discoidal. Whorls 3, compressed, with a rather 

 broad peripheral keel, which gives a serrated appearance to the edge of the 

 upper surface. Spire flat. Profoconch of one minute flat whorl. Suture 



* M. K. Mestayer, Preliminary List of Mollusca from Dredgings taken off the 

 Northern Coast of New Zealand, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 48, pp. 122-28, pi. xii, 1916. 



t C. Hedley, Australasian Antarctic E.vpedition, vol. 4, pt 1, p. 36, pi. v, figs. 54, 55, 

 1916. 



