ie) OLEACINID#. 
tapering, strengthened beneath with fine plaits ; aperture a little oblique, 
smallish lunately circular; peristome simple, straight, margins closely 
united. 
Diam., greatest, ‘14; least, ‘13 ; height, ‘06. (Pfr.) 
New Zealand (Strange. ) 
Sub-Genus, Flammulina—Martens. 
Periphery rounded ; whorls rapidly increasing, generally painted 
with brown waved stripes. 
A. Edge of the aperture thickened at the base. 
a. Imperforate. 
P; wenulata, Lefer; P-ZS., 1857, 2. 168 ; JA. V., vol. 4, p. 
163; vol. 5, p. 232, (Vo. 1395. Shell imperforated, depressed, thin, 
closely plicately-striated, downy, variegated with corneous and reddish 
markings, disposed in streaks and spots ; spire slightly elevated ; whorls 
4%, convex, gradually increasing, the last not descending, impressed in 
the middle of the base ; aperture vertical, elongately-lunar ; peristome 
simple, right margin straight, basal margin somewhat reflexed, columellar 
margin bent downwards, subcallous, adnate. 
Diam. sereatest, 24; least, 25 height, 12. (Pir) 
New Zealand. 
b. Umbilicate. 
P. portia, Gray; P.ZS., 1849, p. 165; Pfr, MEV, vol. 3, p. 
154; vol. 5, p. 246, Vo. 1505; Reeve, f- 806. Shell umbilicated, 
depressed, thinnish, sculptured with closely-set elevated, sub-arcuated 
plaits, covered sparsely with rather rigid hairs, horny, variegated with 
rufous spots and streaks; spire short, convex; whorls 51%, rather 
convex, regularly increasing, the last somewhat inflated beneath the 
suture, not descending anteriorly, sub-compressed at the base about a 
moderate, pervious umbilicus; aperture oblique, rotundly-lunar ; 
peristome simple, margins nearly united, the upper part arcuately 
protracted below the insertion, the basal part shortly reflexed, ascending 
obliquely to the umbilicus. 
Diam., greatest, 32 ; least, 28; height, °16. (Pfr.) 
Auckland (Greenwood and Sinclair.) 
Dunedin (F.W.H.) 
I have followed Adams in including this and other species in the 
genus Patula, but I believe that most of them will be found to belong to 
the family Stenopidee. 
B. Edge of the aperture simple. 
a. Imperforate. 
IP OMOLS, ety e725 .5 LOA, prays. Middl COL 85 Puen 
vol.'5, p. 54, Vo. 63; Helix compessivoluta, Reeve; lc., f. 791. 
Shell imperforate, depressed, rather smooth, covered with a fuscous- 
horny epidermis ; spire slightly elevated, reddish on the crown ; whorls 
