204 COMINELLA. 



olate within tiie apertun". With obsolete revolving ribs ; surface 

 li\'(iiiently irregularly pitted. Length, 1"25 to 1*5 inches. 



New Zealand. 

 C. cataracta, Chemu. (fig. 415), is a mere color-variety of this 

 species. Kobelt quotes as a variety C lineolata, Lam., (not of 

 Quoy nor Reeve,) but I think Lamarck's species is the same as 

 that which those authors have figured for it. 



C. MACULATA, Martyn. PI. 81, figs. 421-424. 



Yellowish grey with revolving lines of chocolate-brown spots ; 

 aperture yellowish ; epidermis chocolate color. 



Length, 1-75 to 2-25 inches. 



JVew Zculaitd. 



A heavj^, widely oval shell, with a strong callous deposit on 

 the upper part of the columella. C. tedadinea., Lam. (fig. 422), 

 is a s^^nonym ; G. maculosa^ Mart. (fig. 423), is probabl}' a young 

 individual, and I am inclined to believe that C. Woldemarii, 

 Kiener (fig. 424), is also a immature specimen, as the rude 

 growth often causes irregular nodules on the shoulder, at the 

 rest-periods. 



C. QuoYi, Kiener. PL 80, fig. 418. 



Spire plicate, surface covered by numerous revolving stria? ; 

 reddish brown, yellowish brown within the aperture. 



Length, 1-5 inch. 



New Zealand. 

 1 am unacquainted with this species, of which, I believe,, only 

 one specimen is recorded, in the Museum at Paris. 



C. LINEOLATA, Lam. PI. 80, figs. 4ir,, 417, 419, 420; PI. 81, figs. 

 425-429. 



Shell with turrited, long pointed spire, the whorls of which 

 are more or less coronated on the shoulder Ijy the commencement 

 there of longitudinal ribs : ribs sometimes obsolete. Body whorl 

 not ribbed, with a concave shoulder. Yellowish or reddish brown 

 or grey, with interrupted Itrown bands ; aperture yellowish or 

 purple, with numerous deep purple revolving lines, or sometimes 

 white raised nsvolving lines. Length, 1 to 1-5 inches. 



New Zealand. 



Kobelt considers lineolata, Lam., a variety of testudinea, Mart., 

 and therefore separates from it lineolata of Quoy and of Kiener 



