378 RHIPIDOGLOSSATE AND DOCOGLOSSATE MOLLUSCA OF N.Z. 



Patinella flava. Hutton, Cat. Marine Moll, of New Zealand, 

 p. 44, (1873). 



Habitat. — Poverty Bay, to Stronghurst, Canterbury. 



Conical, high, radiately ribbed. Pale yellow or orange with- 

 out marks. 



The animal and dentition are unknown. 



Patinella stellifera. Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. X., fig. 1617, 



(1788). P. stellularia, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, 



Zool. III., p. 347, pi. 70, figs. 18-20, (1834). Eeeve, Conch. 



Icon. fig. 96. 



Habitat. — Cook's Straits to Banks' Peninsula. Found also at 



the Friendly Islands. 



Depressed, finely radiately ribbed. Reddish brown with 

 radiating white stripes. 



The animal and dentition are unknown. 



As the Patellas are variable and not easy to make out I add a 

 key to the species. 



Colour brown. 

 Interior with 11 or 1 2 rays. 



Exterior with dark white spotted ribs . . denticulata. 

 Exterior without dark ribs . . . . . . inconspicua. 



Interior not rayed. 

 Large and solid. 



Exterior all brown . . . . . . strigilis. 



Exterior bluish white between the ribs redimiculum. 

 Medium and thinnish. 



Smooth, usually with whith marks . . radians. 

 Rough and scaly . . . . . . reevei 



Colour red or yellow. 



With numerous waved concentric brown lines ewlii 



With radiating black stripes . . . . . . tramoserica. 



With radiating white stripes . . . . . . stellifera. 



Without markings . . . . . . . . flava. 



