PHASIANELLA. 275 



Turbo superbus, Zittel. 



18C5. Turbo ajiperbus, Zittel, Eeise der Novara, Paliiontologie, Bd. i. 



Abth. ii. p. 39, taf. xiv. fig. 2. 

 1873. Ti<rbo superbus, Hutton, Cat. Tert. Moll. N.Z. p. 15. 



G, 9605. A large specimen, very much crushed, that may 

 probably be referred to this species ; from the Miocene of Kawau, 

 New Zealand. Sir James Hector Coll. 



Turbo, sp. 



The following New Zealand specimens from the Sir James 

 Hector Coll. are unrecognizable specifically : — 



G. 9581. Mutilated example of a species allied to T. granosus, 

 Lamarck; Pliocene, Wanganui. 



G. 9582. Small species having closely - set spiral sulci ; 

 Eocene, Trelissick. 



G. 9589. Cast of a large species with depressed spire ; Eocene, 

 Oamaru. 



G. 9595. Cast of a large species with elevated spire and flat 

 base, the whorls are but slightly convex, and the ornament 

 exceedingly simple ; Miocene, Lake Lyndon, West Coast Road, 

 Canterbury. 



Genus PHASIANELLA, Lamarck. 

 [Ann. du Musee, t. iv. 1804, p. 295.] 



Shell imperforate, not nacreous, oval or oblong, polished; 

 aperture entire, oval, longer than broad, angulate in front ; 

 columella smooth, compressed, attenuated at the base; outer 

 margin simple, sharp. 



Type. — Phasianella turbinoides, Lamarck. 



Phasianella australis, Gmelin. 



1788. Buccinum australis, Gmelin, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 3490. 

 1888. Phasianella australis, Pilsbry, Tryon's ^Manual of Conehology, vol. x. 

 p. 164, pi. .\sxvii. figs. 22-8; pi. xxxviii. tig. 40. 



