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from yellowish white, longitudinally streaked with brownish purple, to 
brownish purple ; interior white. 
Length, 1°65 ; breadth, 1°0; angle of spire, 55°. 
Cook Strait. 
Abundant in the North Island. Not found south of Bank’s 
Peninsula. 
Var. B.—Body whorl with twelve nodular transverse ribs, which do 
not reach to the suture, small. 
Var. C.—Body whorl rounded ; nodules nearly obsolete. 
Animal reddish, with points of the same colour (Quoy.) 
N. traversi, Mutton, CMM, p. 9. Ovato-fusiform; spire 
whorl and posterior portion of the body whorl longitudinally ribbed, ten 
ribs in a whorl; aperture oval; canal short, bent slightly to the left ; 
lips smooth ; white, with thin brown spiral stripes, ten or twelve on the 
body whorl; interior white, with two brown interrupted bands on the 
outer lip. 
Length, 1°1 ; breadth, -58; angle of spire, 50°. 
Chatham Islands only. 
The young shell is white and semi translucent. 
Genus, EUTHRIA—Gray. 
Shell fusiform, smooth; aperture oval, produced anteriorly into a 
long re-curved canal; inner lip simple; outer lip posteriorly sinuated. 
EK. lineata, Chemnitz; Buccinum linea, Martyn, Univ. Conch., pl. 
48; Fusus linea, Deshayes, Anim. sans vert., \x., p. 476; Fusus lineatus, 
OnCAG WELD 500; f/.2407: 0-0; Aecve, Conch, 1c, J. 31. ‘Chenu, f: 
600; Pollia lineolata, Gray, Dieff: N.Z., i., p. 230. Fusiform, smooth, 
sometimes ribbed ; whorls flattened ; aperture oval; outer lip grooved ; 
canal short, slightly bent to the left; purplish or pale reddish brown, 
spiraly banded with purplish black or reddish brown. 
Length, 1°4; breadth ; ‘65; angle of spire, 48°. 
Common. Chatham Islands. Auckland Islands. 
This very variable species can be divided into the following four 
varieties :— 
A.—White with distant dark purple bands. ‘Transverse ribs 
absent on body whorl. Auckland and Auckland Islands. 
Z.—Like the last, but the body whorl with transverse ribs. 
Stewart Island. 
C.—Purple, with close bands of dark purple. Common. 
Dunedin to Auckland. Chatham Islands. 
D.—Pale orange, with dark yellowish orange bands. Dunedin. 
This last variety is so distinct that it almost merits a specific name. 
K. vittata, Quoy, lc, ii, p. 504, pl. 34, f- 18-19. Shell small, 
fusiform, thick; apex acute, nodulose; base short, obscurely trans- 
versely striated ; yellowish brown, encircled with a band of violet; 
