BUCCINIDA, 53 
In some of the genera the eyes are near the base of the tentacles ; 
in others near their middle, and are sometimes wanting. 
Genus, COMINELLA—Gray. 
Shell bucciniform, marked or spotted, covered with an epidermis ; 
spire short, acute; last whorl large, ventricose, with a posterior depressed 
groove at the suture, producing a contraction at the hind part of the 
lip. i 
C. maculata, Martyn; Reeve, Conch, Lc, f. 16; Purpura 
turgida, Gray, Dieff., N.Z., ii., p. 2343; B. zealandicum, Reeve, Conch., 
Lc., f. 28. Shell ovate, turgid.; spire short ; whorls convex, transversely 
plicated ; smooth ; aperture ovate, callous above ; outer lip thin, sinua- 
ted, smooth ; pale greyish-yellow, with transverse reddish-purple spots, 
arranged in spiral rows ; interior and columella yellow. 
Length, 2; breadth, 1°3 ; angle of spire, 60°. 
Common in the North Island. Chatham Islands. Auckland 
Islands. 
Var. &.—Spire shorter, hinder part of the body whorl swollen; body 
whorl with shallow spiral grooves. 
C. testudinea, Chemnitz; Quoy, lc., ii, p. 415, pl. 30, f. 8-11; 
Reeve, Conch., Ic., f- 66; Purpura maculosa, Gray, Dief. N.Z, ii, 
p. 233. Shell conical ; whorls flattened, smooth ; columella smooth ; 
outer lip thin, crenulated ; canalshort. Spirally tesselated with yellowish- 
white and purplish-brown ; sometimes purplish-brown with spiral rows 
of white spots ; inside dark purple. 
Length, 1°65; breadth, ‘9 ; angle of spire, 47°. 
Common in the North Island, and found as far south as Banks’ 
Peninsula. Chatham Islands. 
The teeth of the male and female are alike, those of the female 
perhaps rather the larger (Gray Guide to Mollusca, p. 15), see also 
Hoge, Trans. Ray Micros. Soc., 1868, pl. x. , f. 33. 
oot greenish, marked with brown ; tips of the tentacles and siphon 
black (Quoy.) 
C. nassoides, Reeve, Conch. Zc., f- 12. Shell thick; whorls 
flattened, six or seven in the spire ; spirally striated and transversely 
plicated ; a broader and deeper groove round the posterior portion of 
the whorls near the suture ; outer lip grooved internally ; columella 
slightly plaited anteriorly ; pinkish-yellow ; inside brownish ; lip and 
columella yellow. 
Length, 1°6; breadth, ‘85 ; angle of spire, 45°. 
Steward Island to Cook Strait. 
Orange brown ; nodules and ridges whitish (Reeve.) 
C. lineolata, Zamark; Q.& G. 11, p 419, pl. 30, f 14-16; 
Reeve, Conch., Ic. (Buccinum), f. 36; C. virgata, Adams, Gen. Moll., 
pl. 2,76. Shell smooth ; whorls flattened, those of the spire sub-costate ; 
inner lip smooth ; outer rather thin, slightly grooved in the interior ; 
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