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Length, approximately 30 mm. ; width, approximately 20 mm. 



Locality : Pahi. Collected by Marshall. 



Appears to be distinct from other species recorded from our Tertiaries, 

 but is too fragmentary to determine definitely. The specimen to be lodged 

 in the Wanganui Museum. 



Admete maorium n. sp. (Plate XVIII, figs. 7, 8.) 



Shell small, shortly fusiform, spire short ; whorls five or six, prominently 

 shouldered, apical whorls smooth and rounded ; sutures somewhat impressed. 

 Sculptured with stout axial and spiral cords forming small nodules on the 

 crossings, both distinctly narrower than the interspaces, the axials are the 

 more distant and becoming more or less obsolete on the base, there are 

 twelve on the last whorl ; of the spiral cords there are two on the spire- 

 whorls and eight on the last, the lower five small, gradually diminishing 

 anteriorly, of the three prominent cords the second and third are the more 

 widely spaced. Aperture ovate, slightly oblique, outer lip imperfect, the 

 margin no doubt crenulated ; columella almost straight, slightly twisted at 

 the extremity, narrowly but strongly callused, and with three strong evenly 

 spaced plates on the anterior half. 



Longth, 8-5 mm. ; width, 5 mm. 



Locality : Target Gully. Collected by Marshall. 



Type to be presented to the Wanganui Museum. 



Allied to A suteri Marshall and Murdoch, but differs in the stronger 

 sculpture, less number of axial cords, and the position of the plates on the 

 columella. 



Daphnella varicostata n. sp. (Plate XIX, fig. 1.) 



Shell small, fusiform ; spire lightly turreted, its length nearly equalling 

 the aperture and canal ; sutures somewhat impressed, narrowly margined 

 below, usually more distinct on the higher whorls ; whorls eight, the third 

 and succeeding whorls convex, rising rather abruptly at the sutures, the 

 last produced and gradually contracted to the beak ; protoconch smooth ; 

 apex minute, whorls gradually increasing, thence with axial and spiral 

 sculpture, the axials very irregular, close and distinctly raised, or almost 

 obsolete in places, or broad and lightly rounded, usually feeble on the 

 body, and the lines of growth well marked ; the spirals small and variable, 

 the grooves narrow, more strongly marked towards the beak ; there are 

 eight or nine spirals on the penultimate whorl. Aperture narrow, outer 

 lip with sharp margin, the posterior sinus small, situated immediately 

 below the suture, distinctly marked by the growth-striae ; columella lightly 

 curved, the anterior end slightly deflected to the left, thinly callused, and 

 with small oblique threadlets corresponding with the adjacent spirals ; 

 canal short and fairly wide. 



Length, 15 mm. ; width, 6 - 25 mm. 



Locality: Awamoa. Collected by Marshall. 



Type and co-types to be presented to the Wanganui Museum. 



There are three examples each varying slightly in the axial sculpture. 

 With these is another example having very minute close spiral lines, the 

 axials very feeble, almost suppressed, the sutures apparently not margined, 

 and the protoconch increasing in girth more rapidly. The two latter 

 characters are of some importance, but meantime it appears better to 

 record the form " var. A." 



