BY C. IIEDLEY. 503 



respect it resembles the two species of Wright's group Kaiisitora, 

 whose scaled palettes, however, distinguish them. 



At the request of Capt. Hutton, Sir James Hector, Director of 

 the Colonial Museum of Wellington, N.Z., kindly loaned to me 

 for study the type of Tererlo anf.arctica, Hutton. This, as I 

 received it, is unfortunately in a poor state of preser\'ation. The 

 two small, separate but corresponding valves are not accompanied 

 ])y tube or palettes, both are broken and much smeared with 

 shellac. The apophyses are missing in both valves and appear to 

 have been snapped off short at their origin : each valve has suffered 

 fracture of the margin of the antero-median area. Enough yet 

 remains, however, to satisfactorily establish Hutton's species; the 

 peculiar oblique auricle and the proportion of height to breadth 

 mark T. codarct.ia from any of the genus with which I have been 

 able to compare it. 



Under these circumstances, I content myself with offering 

 figures of the right valve of the type and, except to state that this 

 ^"alve is both in height and length 12 mm., refrain from adding to 

 the description appearing on p. 133 of the "Manual of the New 

 Zealand Mollusca." 



That is amended from the original definition in the "Catalogue 

 of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand," and from the Prench 

 description in the Journ. de Conch. 1878, p. 43. From these 

 accounts Smith has with hesitation identified (Report on the 

 Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the 

 Vo3^age of H.M.S. Alert, p. 93, PI. vii. figs. E. E2.) specimens 

 collected by Dr. Coppinger at Port Denison, Queensland, and also 

 specimens dredged by H.M.S. "Challenger" off Cape York, Q. 

 (vide Chall. Report Zool. xiii. p. 27) with T. antarctica. A com- 

 parison of the last quoted figure with those of the type now 

 presented will, it is thought, increase to conviction the doubts 

 expressed by the British Museum conchologist. 



Besides 7'. fragills and 2\ anto.rciica, three other kinds of ship- 

 worms have been mentioned from Australian seas : T. navaUt-; 

 Linne, probably by mistake, i\'"a?<.s?to'-a scmlii, Wright (Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XXV. p. 567, PI. Lxv. figs. 9-15) from Port Phillip, Victoria, 



