14 HELICID®. 
Sub-Family—A chatinine. 
Shell more or less conoidal, solid, the last whorl usually very ventri- 
cose, aperture wide; columella usually more or less truncate at the fore 
part ; outer lip generally simple and acute. 
Genus, TORNATELLINA—Beck. 
Shell imperforate, ovate or sub-trochiform; aperture semi-lunar ; 
columella tortuous, truncated ; margins unequal, the columellar uni- 
lamellated, the external plicated within. 
Europe. S. America. Polynesia. 
T. novoseelandica, Pfeffer; P.ZS., 1851; MAV., vol. 
3, p. 524; vol. 6, p. 263, Wo. 22. Elasmatina reclusiana, Gray, P.ZS., 
1849, p. 167, not of Petit. Shell oblongly-turreted, thin, smooth, shining, 
fulvous-horny; spire turreted ; rather acute; whorls 5, somewhat convex, 
the last one-third of the length of shell, rounded at the base ; parietal 
fold deep, moderate ; columella callous, white, upper portion torturously- 
subtruncated ; aperture hardly oblique, somewhat ear-shaped ; peristome 
thin, acute. 
Length, ‘13; breadth, ‘07; aperture, length, ‘07. (Pfr.) 
New Zealand (Strange.) 
Sub-Family—Bulimine. 
Eye-peduncles and tentacles well developed ; foot elongate, pointed 
behind. Shell ovoid, conoidal, or turreted ; aperture longer than wide ; 
columella arcuated, not truncate anteriorly. 
Genus, PLACOSTYLUS— Beck. 
Shell imperforate, oblong-conic, rugosely striated, last whorl a little 
shorter than the spire; aperture oblong-oval or irregular; columella 
tortuous, arcuately plicate; peristome thick, reflexly expanded, the 
margins united by a shining tuberculated callus, the columellar dilated, 
appressed. 
Australia. New Caledonia. 
P. bovinus, Bruguitre; Coll., No. 368; Petit Journ. Conch., 
1853; Crosse, Journ. Conch, vol. xil., 1864; Pfr., M.H.V., vol. 6, p. 
82, Wo. 721; Bulimus Shongit, Lesson, Voy. de la Cog. ; Reeve, Conch, 
Le. f. 159; Pfr... M.FLV., vol. 2,~p. 140; A. auris-bovina, Lamark ; L. 
jfibratus Martyn. Shell imperforate, oblongly-conical, solid, rugosely- 
striated, covered with an olivaceous-rufous epidermis, banded by 
whitish at the suture ; spire conical, rather acute ; whorls 7, convex, the 
last shorter than the spire, sub-compressed at the base; columella 
arcuated ; aperture oblongly-oval, within cherry-red, sub-caniculated at 
the base; peristome very thick, armed at the base with a moderate 
tuberculous callus, margins united by a callus, columellar margin 
dilated, prominent. 
Length, 2°55; diameter, 1°05 ; aperture, long, 1:1; broad, ‘5. (Pfr.) 
Hokianga to North Cape. 
P. novoseelandicus, Peiffer; Malak. BL, viii., 1861, p. 149; 
Crosse, Journ. Conch., xu., 1864; Pfr., M.LV., vol. 6, p. 83, Wo. 722. 
