194 COLUBEAEIA. 



1880. Tritonium spengleri, Hutton, Man. N.Z. Moll. p. 64. 



1881. Triton spengleri, Tryon, Manual of Concliology, vol. iii. p. 16, pi. ix. 



fig. 61. 

 1893. Triton spengleri, Hutton, Linn. Soc. N. S.W., Macleay Mem. Vol. p. 53. 



Characterized by its large, sulcated spiral carinse, which are 

 distinctly but regularly uodose ; spiral sulci deep and broad, 

 the whole ornament passing over the much elevated, compressed 

 varices. Neither of the specimens in the Museum collection are 

 in good preservation. 



Dimensions (of a mutilated specimen). — Length 71 mm.; breadth. 

 42 mm. ; length of aperture and canal 39 mm. 



Form, and Loo. — Pliocene and Miocene: N"ew Zealand. 



G. 9554. An example of the adult, in which the spiral carinsB"! 

 are not so bold as in typical specimens ; from Wanganui. 



Sir James Hector Coll.\ 



G. 9706. A typical example of the adult ; from Parimoa. 



W. B. D. Mantell ColV 



Lotorium, sp. 



70415. Cast of a specimen having large nodosities at thel 

 periphery of the whorls ; from the Tertiary of Mount Wellington,! 

 !N^ew Zealand. Purchased.X 



G. 467. Crushed specimen, in which the spiral ornament is' 

 very -conspicuous ; from the Tertiary of Wellington, N.Z. 



Presented ly Lieut.- Col. Wilmer. 



Genus COLUBRARIA, Schumacher. 

 [Essai Nouv. Syst. Habit. Testaces, 1817, pp. 76, 251.] 



Spire elongate ; ornament subdued, varices not obtrusive, rather 

 distant ; aperture small ; outer margin lirate within, posterior 

 sinus absent or rudimentary ; inner margin plated ; columella 

 frequently granulate ; anterior canal short. 



Type. — Colubraria granulata, Schumacher. 



Colubraria tenuicostata, Tenison- Woods (sp.). 



1879. Pisania tenuicostata, Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 



vol. iii. p. 224, pi. xx. fig. 6. 

 1888. Upidromus teniiicostatus, Tate, Trans. Eoy. Soc. South Aust. vol. x. 



p. 38, pi. vi. fig. 12. 

 1893. Epidromtis tenuicostatus, Tate and Dennant, id. vol. xvii. pt. l,p. 219. 



