52 BUCCINID&. 
aperture oval, narrow; right lip sulcated; a tooth in the posterior 
angle (Quoy.) 
Length, 9; diam., 4 lines. 
Bay of Islands. 
Foot and head yellowish white, with elongated touches of reddish- 
brown ; two on the top of the head, and a third surrounding each 
tentacle above the eyes (Quoy.) 
E. bicincta, Hutton, C:MW.M., ~p. 10. Fusiform, smooth ; slightly 
transversely ribbed at the apex only; whorls rather flattened, faintly 
transversely striated; aperture oval; outer lip smooth; canal very 
short, bent slightly to the left; white, with a band of purple on the 
anterior portion of the spire whorls extending to the sutures, and two 
similar bands on the body whorl. 
Length, 1°1 ; breadth, 55; angle of spire. 37°. 
Chatham Islands. Auckland Islands. 
E. littorinoides, Reeve, Conch., Lc. (Buccinum,) f. 94; Chenu, f. 
631. Shell fusiform, a little re-curved at the base, smooth ; lip simple ; 
olive-brown, obscurely lineated; interior of the aperture pale flesh. 
colour (Reeve. ) 
Perhaps a variety of £. /neata. 
E. martensiana, Witton ; Jour. de Conch., 1878, p. 16. Small, 
fusiform, spire produced, acute ; whorls rather distantly spirally striated, 
with several very fine strie between; spire whorls transversely ribbed ; 
aperture oval, outer lip slightly grooved, with a thin margin; canal 
short, nearly straight ; purplish brown, or pale brown. 
Léngth, 7 ; breadth, -3; angle of spire, 36°. 
Common in the North Island. 
Smaller than the last, much narrower, and the spire whorls more 
distinctly ribbed. 
EK. antarctica, Reeve: Conch., Ic. (Buccinum), f. 30. Shell 
ovately fusiform, truncated at the base ; whorls strongly plicately ribbed 
towards the apex; ribs of the last whorl fading away; exterior covered 
with a thick olive epidermis; interior purple brown; columella and 
inner edge of the lip white (Reeve.) 
Falkland Islands. Auckland Islands. 
Var. A.—Body whorl smooth. Campbell Island and Lyttelton. 
FAMILY—BUCCINID. 
Teeth as in Muricide; head truncated; tentacles moderate ; 
mantle enclosed ; siphon recurved ; foot ‘simple; shell usually with 
an oblique fissure or notch at the fore part of the aperture ; aperture 
sometimes more or less produced and recurved anteriorly. 
Sub-Family—Nassine. 
Operculum ovate, acute ; nucleus apical, the margin entire or 
serrated. 
