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(9.) Laoma (Phrixgnathus) phrynia, Hutton. 

 Distribution. — This rather rare species has been found 

 from Whangarei to the Seventy-mile Bush, in the North 

 Island ; Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury, and Hooker Valley. 

 in the South Island ; and a variety on Stewart Island. 



(10.) Laoma (Phrixgnathus) allochroida, var. lateum- 



bilicata, Suter. 



Distribution. — A very minute form, living in mould in the 

 bush, and hitherto only known from Auckland to the Forty- 

 mile Bush, in the North Island ; also from Chicken Island. 



Fam. PATULIDJE. 

 (11.) Endodonta (Charopa) coma, Gray. 

 Distribution. — This is the only one of our land-shells that 

 can be called common. It is found almost everywhere in the 

 North Island, also on the Great Barrier Island. In the South 

 Island it is, to my knowledge, not found south of the 44th 

 degree of latitude ; in the east, towards Banks Peninsula, it is 

 replaced by Endodonta pseudocoma, Sut. 



(12.) Endodonta (Charopa) colensoi, Suter. 



Distribution. — The type is from the Forty-mile Bush, and 

 it has also been found near Auckland, and in Hawke's Bay, 

 Waipawa, and Manawatu. Unknown from the South Island. 



Thus it will be seen that most of the shells brought from 

 Little Barrier Island are rather widely distributed in our 

 colony. 



With regard to the distribution of the genera, I may just 

 mention that Bheuea, comprising small carnivorous snails, 

 occurs as far as Queensland, New Caledonia, and one species 

 (B. gradata, Gould) on the Tonga Islands. Flammulina is 

 also found in Tasmania, Australia, Lord Howe Island, Nor- 

 folk Island, New Caledonia, and the Carolines ; and nearly 

 allied to it are Amphidoxa and Stephanoda, from South 

 America, and Trachycystis, from South Africa. Once the 

 anatomy of these genera is well known, they will most likely 

 prove to form only one genus. Laoma, subgenus Phrixgna- 

 thus, is also known from Tasmania and southern Australia, 

 but Laoma (restricted) is only found in New Zealand. To the 

 same family belongs the genus Punccum, which occurs in 

 North America, Europe, part of Asia, and northern Africa. 

 Endodonta, a Polynesian genus, occurs also in Tasmania, 

 Australia, New Caledonia, the Philippine Islands, and over the 

 Polynesian islands as far as the Hawaiian and Society 

 Islands. 



