5° MURICID. 
Genus, FUSUS—Klein. 
Shell fusiform, spire generally long, many whorled ; aperture oval ; 
canal long and straight ; columella smooth. 
F. spiralis, Adams; P.Z.S., 1855, p. 221; & pensum, Hutton, 
CMM. Fusiform, thin, white, spire elevated ; spire whorls convex, 
contracted at the suture, transversely lirated, angulated in the middle ; 
keel tuberculated, the lower one sub-simple; aperture oval, inner lip 
smooth ; throat sulcated ; canal long, straight. (Adams.) 
New Zealand (Cuming.) Cook Strait, rare. 
Genus, NEPTUNA:A—Bolten. 
Shell fusiform, ventricose ; spire elevated ; whorls rounded, covered 
with a horny epidermis ; apex papillary ; aperture oval; canal short ; 
inner lip simple, smooth. 
N. zealandica, Quoy ; Zc, 11., 500, p/. 34, f, 5-4; & mandarinus, 
Reeve; Conch., Lc., f. 8. Fusiform, elongated ; whorls rounded, deeply 
spirally grooved, eaeh of the grooves generally with a single elevated 
line, sometimes with two lines in a groove; upper whorls only of spire 
transversely ribbed; outer lip crenulated; canal produced ; reddish 
brown, the reliefs darker. 
Length, 5 ; breadth, 2°25 ; angle of spire, 45°. 
Auckland to Bank’s Peninsula; animal brown, with reddish reliefs. 
(Quoy.) 
N. caudata, Quoy and Gaimard; Lc, i1., p. 503, Pl. 34, f. 20-21. 
Fusiform, elongated; whorls rounded, spirally grooved; each of the 
grooves with one or two elevated lines ; spire whorls slightly, and body 
whorl strongly, transversely ribbed ; outer lip crenulated ; canal rather 
produced. Pale brownish, reliefs darker. 
Length, 3°25 ; breadth, 1°55 ; angle of spire, 48°. 
Cook Strait ; probably a variety of the last. 
N. dilatata, Quoy, Zc, i, ~. 498, 2 34, f 15-16; Reeve, Conch., 
Ic. f- 49; Chenu, f- 602. Ovato-fusiform ; whorls carinated, spirally 
striated, with a row of tubercles on the keel; 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°. 
Common in the North Island. S. Australia. ‘Tasmania. 
Animal marbled reddish brown on yellow (Quoy.) 
N. nodosa, JZartyn; Buccinum raphanus, Quoy, tc, i., p. 428, 
pl. 31, f- 5-6; & raphanus, Lamark, l.c., 1x., p. 454; Reeve, Conch., Le, 
jf 61. Fusiform, ventricose ; whorls spirally striated, those of the spire 
carinated, and crossed’ by low transverse ribs ; keel nodulose ; body 
whorl bicarinated, each keel with a row of nodules, sometimes obsolete 
on the anterior one ; aperture oval, angled behind; outer lip slightly 
crenulated ; canal short, bent to the left, slightly notched anteriorly ; 
