Iredale. — Sitter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca." 467 



Triton undosus Lam. Consequent!)' Tritonidea Swainson was six years 

 later, and an absolute synonym. Later (Proc. Mai. Soc. (Lond.) 5 vol. xi, 

 p. 177, 1914) I noted that Swainson had recorded this identity, but pre- 

 served his own name on account of a prior Folia. But these two names 

 are essentially different. Therefore I should dismiss Gantharus from the 

 Neozelanic fauna and replace it by — 



Genus Pollia Sowerby, 1834. Pollia Sowerbv, Gen. Rec. Fossil Shells, 

 vol. ii. pi. 237, fig. 12, 1834. Type : Buccinum nodosum. 

 Synonym: Tritonidea Swainson, Treat. Mai., pp. 74, 302, 1840; 

 same type. 



Pollia fuscozonata (Suter, 1908). 



colensoi (Suter, 1908). 



Alectrion victorianus nom. nov. [P. 397.] 



I propose this name for Buccinum fasciatum Lamarck, 1822, which is 

 antedated by Buccinum fasciatum 0. F. Miiller (Vermes, vol. ii, p. 145, 

 1774), and also by Bruguiere (Ency. Meth. Vers., vol. i, p. 247, 1789). 

 I have not seen Neozelanic specimens, and therefore note that the name 

 is given to the Australian shell. I believe this shell is the badge of the 

 Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, and for this reason have formed the 

 above specific name. 



In the Man. Conch., vol. iv, as noted by Suter, this species was placed in 

 the subgenus Hima. That name I will later show to be unapplicable, but 

 cannot go into details at present ; the subject is too complex. This species 

 does not fall into Alectrion s. str., but, associated with A. ephammilla Watson, 

 would fall into the subgenus which has wrongly borne the name of Hima. 



Alectrion suturalis Lamarck subsp. dunkeri (Suter, 1908). [P. 398.] 



I cannot understand what Suter has done in this case. Apparently he 

 has renamed Dunker's Nassa intermedia, but I cannot understand what the 

 shells were that he identified with this form. 



At the Kermadecs I rarely collected a shell which occurs abundantly 

 at Lord Howe Island, at Norfolk Island, and rarely in New South Wales. 

 These were recognized by comparison with the types as Nassa spirata, 

 A. Adams. I recorded this in the Proc. Mai. Soc. (Lond.), vol. ix, p. 77, 

 1910. Suter's description and habitat agree with these shells, save for the 

 statements, " Usually 3 distant fine brown spiral lines on the spire-whorls, 

 5 to 7 on the body- whorl." " Outer lip . . . sometimes with 4 to 5 

 minute teeth near the base." These are characteristics of the " glans " 

 group, and do not occur in the hundreds of A. spiratus A. Ad. I have 

 before me. Otherwise I should have considered Suter's name as a synonym. 



Fam. Muricidae Fleming. [P. 399.] 



The nomenclature of the species recognized in this family may be cor- 

 rect, but it is certain that the nomination of higher groupings is inexact. 



Under the genus-name Murex Linne many groups are confused, and the 

 characters of each are so well defined that they should be considered as of 

 generic value. In the British Museum, an institution famed for its con- 

 servatism, this has been accepted, and the species are arranged under many 

 genera. It is quite impossible for me at the present time to revise the 

 group, but I would put on record some of the data I have collated, as it 

 differs from that shown by Suter. 



