212. STENOPIDE. 
obliquely lunate-oval, within shining-blue; peristome simple, inflexed 
throughout. 
Diam., greatest, 2°6; least. 2°1; height, 1-14. (Pfr.) 
Northern part of the North Island. Wanganui (?.) 
Allied to P. atramentaria, from Victoria. 
P. hochstetteri, Pfeffer; M.H.V., vol. 5, p. 48, No. 2. Shell 
umbilicated, depressed, slightly solid, irregularly plaited, and somewhat 
granulated by impressed, close, oblique lines, viscidly shining, fulvous, 
ornamented above with thickly-set, undulating, chestnut-coloured lines ; 
spire scarcely elevated, with the crown thin, obtuse; whorls 5%, slightly 
convex, the last depressedly-rotundate, sub-angulated at the periphery, 
irregularly hollowed beneath, more shining, bound with broader chest- 
nut-coloured bands ; umbilicus moderate, oblique, not pervious; aper- 
ture very oblique, lunar; peristome somewhat inflexed, straight, anteriorly 
sub-membranaceous, margins joined by a white callus. 
Diam’, /ereatest, 2°55,, least,.2°2 height, 1a.) ) (Pir) 
Limestone Mountains, New Zealand (Hochstetter.) 
Picton. 
The structure of this shell evidently resembles that of P. Busbyi, 
from which, however, it differs in the depressed form,—in the whorls 
slowly increasing—in the markings and in the colour; and also in the 
umbilicus. It is figured in Hochstetter’s New Zealand, page 169. 
Peurnula, Lyajer; fics urnula, Lr; PZ.S:,, USsA, ps oe 
heeve, Conch: Lcon., Vo. 1306, pl. 1895, Pir., WTLV., vols Ay pees vol: 
5, 2. 48, Vo. 4. Shell perforated, the perforation covered, helicophan- 
toidal, thin, sub-membranaceous, irregularly obliquely furrowed and 
malleated, a little shining, pellucid, green fuscous; spire minute, 
conoidal, obtuse, pale; suture rather deep; whorls 3, convex, very 
rapidly increasing, the last large, sub-compressed from behind, somewhat 
excavated at the base; aperture oblique, truncatedly-oval, within very 
shining; peristome simple, obtuse, sub-inflexed, margins approximating, 
columellar margin from above, reflexed, adnate. 
Diam, greatest, “63; least, 5 ; height, :35. (Pir.) 
Wellington. Clutha. (F.W.H.) 
Egg calcareous, white, opake, length, :2. (F.W.H.) 
Sub-Genus, Amphidoxa—Albers. 
Shell perforate, depressed, thin, pellucid, whorls rather convex, 
rapidly increasing ; aperture very oblique, ample; peristome simple, 
acute, the margins united by a thin callus. 
a. Shell imperforate. 
P. phlogophora, Pfeffer; P.Z.S., 1849, p. 127; WAV, vol. 
3, P. 34; vol. 5, p. 54, Vo. 65; Reeve, Conch. Ic., f. 790; Helix multt- 
limbata, Jacg. et Homb:, Voy. au Pole Sud., pl. 6, figs, 5-8; Helix flam- 
migera, Pfr, 1852. Shell imperforate, depressed, very thin, finely 
striated, shining, pellucid, fulvous-yellow, adorned with angular flame- 
like markings, and rufous serrations, closely set together ; spire some- 
