HAMINEA. 373 



Ad. H. brevis Quoy is a shorter shell witli more convex outlines. 

 The New Zealand habitat has not been confirmed by local conchol- 

 ogists. Watson remarks: " This species is peculiar in combining a 

 very cylindrical form with a very narrowly reverted and truncated 

 pillar lip. Mr. E. A. Smith, who kindly examined my specimens, re- 

 marks that the British Museum ' specimens have the apical foramen 

 covered by a thin callosity,' which is not present in most of the 

 Cliallenger specimens. It seems to be very easily abraded." 



H. BREVIS Quoy & Gaimard. PI. 40, figs. 9, 10, 96. 



Shell small, rather solid, cylindrical, the ends truncated, white, 

 striated below. Aperture quite wide throughout its length ; vertex 

 a little impressed, imperforate ; anterior extremity striated with 20 

 transverse lines, the rest of the shell smooth, showing growth-strise 

 under a lens. Animal white. Stomach containing three oblong 

 deeply toothed plates. Alt. 5, diam. 3 lines (average). 



Port of King George, Southwesterti Australia (Astrolabe) ; Poi't 

 Lincoln, Middle Harbor, and Port Stephen (Angas). 



Biilln brevis Q. & G., Zool. Astrol. ii, p. 358, pi. 26, f. 36, 87. 

 Ad., Thes. p. 581, pi. 124, f. %^.—H. brevis Sowb., C. Icon. f. 15.— 

 Angas, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 188 ; 1867, p. 227.— Bulla ovoidea Mke. 

 (not Q. & G.), Moll. Nov. Holl. Spec. ; c/. Mke., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 

 1844, p. 55. 



H. WALLisii Gray. Unjigured. 



Shell ovate, oblong, buff, pellucid, most minutely spirally striated, 

 concentrically substriate ; columellar margin subreflexed, white. 

 Vertex imperforate ; aperture coarctate posteriorly. Length one- 

 fourth inch {Gray, Annals of Philos. [N. S.], ix, 1825, p. 408). 



New Holland (Capt. Wallis). 



H. zELANDi.E Gray. PI. 41 , figs. 11,12; pi. 40, fig. 86. 



Shell thin, subglobuhir-oval, covered with a thin pale straw-col- 

 ored epidermis ; white at vertex and columella. Surface showing 

 some slight growth wrinkles, but without spiral strise, although 

 under strong magnification many short transverse impressions 

 roughen the surface. Vertex slightly and narrowly impressed, im- 

 perforate, the slightly thickened lip reflexed at center of the vertex, 

 produced above; outer lip regularly convex; basal lip broadly 

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