BY PROFESSOR F. W. HUTTON, F.G.S. 369 



Grenus. Minos. Hutton. 



Shell ear-shaped, regular, umbilicated ; the spire small ; 

 aperture very large and oblique, not nacreous, the lips thin. 

 Operculum horny multispiral. Dentition resembling that of 

 Cantharidus. 



Founded on Fossarina petterdi, (Brazier), from Tasmania. 



Minos rimata. Hutton; (1884). Adeorbis petterdi, Hutton, 

 Trans. N.Z. Inst. XIV., p. 132, [not of Brazier]. 



Habitat. — Waiwera, near Auckland. 



Shell small, yellowish white, with oblique brown spots ; the 

 umbilicus very narrow. 



Differs from M. petterdi in its much narrower umbilicus. The 

 operculum and dentition are not known. 



Family. Haliotloe.* 

 Genus. Haliotis. Linne. 



Haliotis iris. Martyn, Univ. Conch, pi. 61, (1784); Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon., fig. 37. 



Habitat. — Throughout New Zealand, Chatham Islands, 

 Auckland Islands. 



The outer lip is continuous and produced beyond the body 

 whorl ; the columella does not form a spiral. 



The dentition is figured in Trans. N.Z. Institute, XV., pi. 15, 

 fig. H. 



Haliotis rugoso-plicata. Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. X., p. 311, 

 fig. 1604 (1788); Eeeve, Conch. Icon., fig. 7. H. plicata, 

 Karsten, Museum Leskeanum, (1789). H. australis, (xmelxn, 

 in 13th edition of Linne's Syst. Nat. H. cruenta, Eeeve, 

 Pro. Zool. Soc. of London, 1846, p. 59. 



* The following species are omitted as not really inhabiting New 

 Zealand : — 

 Haliotis ncevosa, Martyn; inhabits Australia 

 Haliotis albicans, Quoy ; inhabits Australia 

 Haliotis cvtininghami, Reeve , inhabits Australia 

 Haliotis stomaticiformis, Reeve ; inhabits Australia 

 Haliotis virginea, Chemnitz ; inhabits Western Africa 

 Haliotis pulckerima, Deshayes ; Habitat unknown 

 Haliotis nova-zealandke, Reeve ; Habitat unknown. 



