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Placuanomia ioxe. Gray, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1849, p. 123; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon., fig. 6. 



Habitat. — Stewart's Island and Wellington (H. B. Kirk). 

 Found also in Tasmania and Australia. 



Family Ostreid.e.* 



Ostkea edulis. Linne ; Reeve, Conch. Icon., fig. 8. Variety 

 Purpurea. Hanly, Conch, Miscel., pt. 3. 

 Habitat. — Throughout New Zealand. 



Variety Angasi. Sowerby in Reeve's Conch. Icon., fig. 27 (1871). 

 0. lutaria, Hutton, Cat. Marine Moll, of New Zealand, p. 84 

 (1873). 0. chilensis, Sowb. in Reeves Conch. Icon., fig. 33 (?). 



Habitat.— South Island of New Zealand. 



OSTREA GLOMERATA. Gould, Pl'O. Bost. SoC Nat. Hist., III., p. 



346 (1850); Un. St. Ex, Ep., XII., p. 461, Atlas fig. 577; 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., fig. 52. 



Habitat. — Auckland, on rocks. 



Ostrea reniformis. Sowerby in Reeves Conch. Icon., fig. 57 



(1871). 



Habitat. — Dunedin and Banks Peninsula, on rocks. 



The following species has been omitted : 



Ostrea discoidea, Gould ; inhabits Fiji Islands. 



