Hurron—7he Plhocene Mollusca of New Zealand. 41 
Genus SIPHONALIA. 
Key to the species. 
Whorls not nodose, canal produced... ae .. oS. mandarina. 
Me not nodose, canal short sae eee . S. congulata. 
,, nodose, canal long a ss oes sue, 09, Q21ALaLa. 
,, nodose, canal short... af 2s ... 9. 20dosa. 
Srpponaia (?) crncuLata, Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. Vol. XVII. p. 315. 
Shell small, rather thin, fusiform, the spire.acute but shorter than the body 
whorl, not nodose nor ribbed. Whorls 5, the two first embryonic, smooth, 
usually sharply shouldered; the others rounded, finely spirally striated and 
delicately marked with growth lines. Suture impressed. Aperture oval, the 
right lip thin ; anterior canal short, nearly straight. 
Locality. —Wanganui, Petane. 
SrpHonaLIA MANDARINA, Duclos, Mag. Zool. VIII; Tyron, l.c. Vol. III. pl. vn. 
fig. 385 ; Fusus zealandicus, Quoy and Gaim. Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. IT. p. 500, 
pl. xxxiv. figs. 4-5. 
Locality. —Wanganui, Petane, Matapiro. 
SIPHONALIA DILATATA, Quoy and Gaimard, l.c. II. p. 498, pl. xxiv. figs. 15-16 ; Tryon, 
le. IIL. pl. xiv. figs. 356-358. 
Locality. —Wanganui, Petane, Matapiro. 
SrpponatiA noposa, Martyn, Univ. Conch. Bauccznum, pl. v.; Tryon, l.c. III. pl. tv1. 
fig. 377. 
Locality.— Wanganui, Petane, Matapiro, Patea. 
Variety conomEA, Hutton, S. xodosa var. D. Cat. Tertiary Moll. of N.Z. p. 3. 
Perhaps the same as Purpura conoidea, Zittel, Voy. Novara, Pale. p. 37, 
pl. xv. fig. 5. 
(Plate v1. fig. 11.) 
Locality.—Petane, Matapiro. 
Genus PISANIA. 
Key to the species. 
Spiral striations faint, uniform... Lise ie sas L, Ceneata. 
5 faint, with distant stronger ones ... LP. striatula. 
z 3 strong, uniform ... %: ae .. P. drewet. 
