48 MURICDID&. 
rounded above, attenuated below ; varices fingered, fingers uncinated ; 
tubes intermediate, distinct ; canal elongated, re-curved. (Reeve.) 
Genus, TROPHON—Montfort. 
Shell fusiform, varices numerous, lamelliform or laciniated ; spire 
prominent ; aperture ovate; canal open, usually turning to the left ; 
columella smooth, arcuated. 
T. ambiguus, Hombr. and Jacq. ; Voy. Pole Sud. Moll., p. 109, 
pl. 25, f 13-14. Fusiform, rather thick; spire whorls with two, and 
body whorl with many, spiral ridges, crossed by varices ; between the 
spiral ridges on the body whorl there are one, two, or three smaller 
raised lines; aperture ovate; outer lip finely crenulated; canal pro- 
duced, bent to the left and re-curved ; white or yellowish white, inside 
pinkish brown ; in the young the mouth is internally banded with pale 
purple. 
Length, 2:4; breadth, 1°2 ; angle of spire, 50°. 
Variable, the varices being sometimes wanting on the body whorl. 
Stewart Island to Auckland. 
T. stangeri, Gray ; Dief. NZ, ii., ~. 230. Shell small, oyate, 
fusiform ; brown, regularly and closely centrically striated ; spire acute, 
rather shorter than the body whorl; the upper whorl with two, and the 
body whorl with eight continued distant spiral ribs, the hinder ones 
farthest apart, and most raised ; the mouth dark brown ; the canal short, 
open ; axis three quarters of an inch (Gray.) 
Dunedin to Auckland. 
Probably a variety of the last, in which case Dr. Gray’s name will 
stand. usus cretaceus, Reeve (l.c., f. 48) seems hardly different. 
Mavineisus, (Gould U. "Se Lx: Ep. xin py 233. shan piclerms, 
Hutton, C.M.M., not Fusus inctsus, Martyn. Small, fusiform ; whorls 
convex, spirally grooved, and finely transversely plaited ; aperture oval, 
slightly angled ; outer lip grooved in the adult; canal short, slightly 
bent to the left; purplish, the reliefs darker and browner; inside 
brownish purple. 
Length, °8 ; breadth, -4 ; angle of spire, 32°. 
Dunedin to Auckland. 
I am rather doubtful of this identification. For Gould’s descrip- 
tion; see Mrans. N.Z- Inst... x, p..292. 
T. inferus, Mutton, CM.M., ~p. 9. Small, ovato-fusiform ; whorls 
spirally grooved and transversely plicated; aperture broadly ovate, 
angled posteriorly ; outer lip crenulated ; canal very short, bent to the 
left ; aperture large, outer lip angled; canal produced ; yellowish, 
minutely and closely spirally striped with reddish brown. 
Length, 5‘25 ; breadth, 2.35 ; angle of spire, 50°. 
Wellington to Dunedin. 
Dr. v. Martens refers this to & corrugatus, Reeve, but I cannot 
agree with him. 
