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Bay of Islands. New Zealand. (Purchas, Hochstetter). 
The animal belonging to this shell has not yet been examined, and 
it is therefore impossible to say whether it is an Ass?minca or a Hydro- 
cena which belongs to the last family. For a figure of the dentition of 
Assiminea, see Ann. Nat. Hist., 3rd series, il., pl. 3, f. 12. 
DIVISION—CTENOBRANCHIATA. 
Gills two, one generally rudimentary, pectinate, in the mantle cavity ; 
penis present ; never ripidoglossal; upper wall of respiratory cavity 
generally produced into a siphon. 
SECTION—-SIPHONOSTOMATA. 
Peritreme notched or produced anteriorly into a canal corresponding 
to the siphon of the mantle. Carnivorous. 
Sub-Section— Toxoglossa. 
Radula 1.0.1, no rachis teeth, but an intermediate and a lateral 
row. ' 
FAMILY—CONID. 
Head with a produced tubular veil; tentacles subulate ; eyes on 
bulgings or slight truncatures on the outer side of the tentacles. Mantle 
enclosed, with an elongated siphon at the fore part. Foot simple, un- 
divided, oblong, with a conspicuous aquiferous pore on the middle of the 
under surface. Teeth subulate, in two series, on a tubular prolongation 
of the retractile proboscis, and with a bundle of sharp subulate teeth at 
the extremity. 
Genus, CONUS—Linneus. 
Shell conical, tapering regularly ; spire short or depressed ; aperture 
long and narrow, emarginate anteriorly. Operculum minute, nucleus 
apical. 
GC. zealandicus, Hutton; C.M.M. p. 23. Shell turbinate, spire 
short, conical ; body whorl with distant spiral strize, which at the anterior 
end are elevated ; spire whorls spirally grooved. Pale cinnamon brown, 
the spiral strize darker ; posterior edge of body whorl white with chestnut 
spots, anterior portion of body whorl varied with white, forming an 
irregular spiral band before the middle ; spire whorls with small chestnut 
spots. 
: Length, ‘6 ; breadth, -3 ; angle of spire, 83°. 
Allied to C. anemone, Lamark, from Australia. 
A single specimen from the Bay of Islands, is in the Wellington 
Museum. 
FAMILY—TEREBRID&. 
Radula rudimentary. ‘Tentacles very small or wanting ; eyes on the 
tips of the tentacles or wanting. Mantle enclosed with an elongated 
siphon. Operculum ovate, pointed, nucieus apical. Shell dense solid 
turreted ; aperture with an oblique notch in front; outer lip thin not 
variced. 
