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SCHIZOGLOSSA; A NEW GENUS OF CARNIVOROUS 



SNAILS. 



By C. Hedley, F.L.S. 

 (Plates IX. -X.) 



After describing his ascent of Kakepuku, a hill in the Middle 

 Waikato Basin, 1531 feet high, situated near the junction of the 

 Waipa and Mangawero Rivers, Hochstetter says (New Zealand, 

 English Edition, 1867, p. 317) : "The top is said to have formerly 

 been fortified and cultivated ; only on the south-west side there is 

 a small tract of forest remaining, which the chief, who is the 

 owner of that ground, had ordered to be spared. This sylvan 

 grove welcomed us to its cooling shade, and was moreover found 

 to be rich in small, but also rare landshells. Besides numerous 

 small species of Helix, Bealia turricidata, Pfr., and Daudebardia 

 novoseelandica, Pfr., are found here frequently." 



From specimens there collected Pfeifter described [Malak. Blatt., 

 Vol. viii., 1861 (1862), p. 146] Daudebardia novoseelandica* 

 remarking that he had no information of this animal, the shell 

 of which was larger than that of any known Daudebardia. 

 Translations (Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, 1880, p. 12, 

 &c.) and reprints (Mon. Hel, Viv. v. p. 10, &c.) of Pfeiffer's 

 original diagnosis constitute the remainder of the literature 

 relating to this species. No animals seem to have reached 

 the hands of any naturalist, and no figures of the shell have 

 been published. Prof. Hutton described (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 

 Vol. xiv. p. 152) the exterior and the dentition of a snail deprived 

 of its shell, under the illusion that he was dealing with D. 



* Dr. von Martens has proposed (Critical List N.Z. Moll. p. v.) to reduce 

 all specific names meaning of or from New Zealand to the common form of 

 neozelauicas, but, except to correct an evident misprint or obvious eiTor in 

 spelling, it is undesirable to swerve from fixity of nomenclature. 



