BY HENRY SUTER. 497 



Hah, — North Island. Collected amongst a lot of other shells 

 from flood margin of a stream at Waimarama, Hawke's Bay, by 

 Mr. A. Hamilton. 



Animal unknown. 



This shell stands nearest to Ch. anguicidus, Reeve. 



Charopa buccinella, Reeve, sp., 1852. 



S y n.—ga77ima, Pfeiffer, 1852 (n853) ; sylvia, Hutton, 1883 ; 

 tau, Suter {non Pfeifl'er, 1862). 



1 1 1 u s t r. — Reeve, Conch. Icon. vii. pi, cxxxiii. fig. 821 ; Man. 

 Conch. (2), iii. pi. iii. fig. 11. 



De script. — Reeve, Conch. Icon. Helix sp. 821; Pfeiff*er, 

 P.Z.S. 1852, p. 57 ; Mon. Hel. Yiv. Yol. iii. p. 100 ; Hector, Cat. 

 Land Moll. N.Z. 1873, p. 13 ; Hutton, Man. N.Z. Moll. 1880, p. 

 8 ; and N.Z. Journ. of Science, 1883, p. 476 ; Trans. N.Z. Inst. 

 xvi. pp. 175, 193; Man. Conch. (2), Vol. viii. p. 98. 



D e n t i t i o n. — Suter, Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv. p. 293 ; pi. xxi. 

 figs. 24-25. 



H a b. — North Island : Auckland, Horokiroi, Forty Mile Bush, 

 Howick, Whangarei, Mt. Wellington, Hilly er's Creek, Auckland, 

 Hunna Range, Pirongia Mt., Hawke's Bay. South Island : 

 Bealey, Riccarton Bush, near Christchurch. 



Not e. — Charopa sylvia, Hutton, is not synonymous with Ch. 

 tau, Pfeifi"er, as suggested by me in P.L.S.N.S. VV. (2), vii. p. 657. 

 I sent specimens of Ch. sylvia to Mr. Edg. A. Smith, Brit. Mns., 

 for examination, and he kindly sent me the following information : 

 — " Ch. sylvia, Hutton. You question this being the same as 

 tau, Pfeiffer. We have not yet the latter in the Museum, but 

 Pfeiffer's description 'subdistantem costata-plicata' scarcely applies 

 to your specimens. They are undoubtedly identical with Pfeiffer's 

 gamma. I have compared them with the types, and they agree 

 in every respect, excepting that yours are fresher." 



Charopa buccinella. Reeve, var. serpentinula, Suter, 1891. 



Mr. Edg. A. Smith, Brit. Mus., to whom I sent specimens of 

 my Ch. serpentinula, writes that he cannot separate the latter 



