TEICHOTKOPIS. 233 



Family TRICHOTROPID^. 



Genus TEICHOTKOPIS, Broderip and Sowerby. 

 [Zool. Journ. vol. iv. 1829, p. 373.] 



Shell umbilicate, turbinate, carinate, the carinje bearing epi- 

 dermal fringes in well-preserved specimens ; spire short or conical ; 

 aperture large, angulate or slightly canaliculate in front; outer 

 margin simple, sharp ; columellar border arched. 



Type. — 'Turbo bicarinatm, Sowerby. 



Trichotropis clathrata, G. B. Sowerby. 



1873. Trichotropis inornata, Hiitton, Cat. Marine JIoll. X.Z. p. 26. 



1873. Tricholropis inornata, Hutton, Cat. Tert. Moll. N.Z. p. 11. 



1874. Trichotropis clathrata, G. B. Sowerby, Couch. Icon. vol. xix. pi. ii. 



fig. 10. 

 1880. Trichotropis inornata, Hutton, Man. X.Z. Moll. p. 69. 

 1887. Trichotropis clathrata, Tryou, Manual of Gonchology, vol. ix. p. 43, 



pi. vii. fig. 51. 

 1893. Trichotropis inornata, Hutton, Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Macleay Mem. 



Vol. p. 59. 



An easily recognized species ; the whorls are cancellate, the 

 spiral threads predominate ; granulate at the points of intersection ; 

 body-whorl enormous in size ; aperture very large, channelled in 

 front ; outer margin thin, spread out ; columella narrowly umbili- 

 cate and twisted ; inner margin reflected. 



Dimensions. — Length 16 mm.; breadth 10 mm.; length of 

 aperture 8-5 mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Pliocene : Shakespeare Cliff, New Zealand. 



G. 9558. Two examples of the adult. Sir James Hector Coll. 



Family VERMETID^. 



Genus TENAGODES, Guettard, m.i 



[Mem. Sci. at Arts, t. iii. 1770 (or 1774), p. 128.] 



Siliquaria, Bruguiere, Ency. Meth. Yers. i. 1789, p. 15. 



Shell tubular, cylindrical ; for the most part uncoiled, furnished 

 with a long fissure extending from the aperture backwards ; the 



' Fischer, Manuel de Conchyl. 1885, p. 692. 



