54 BUCCINIDE. 
canal short ; greyish brown, with narrow spiral lines, not very close, of 
brownish black; columella and canal orange ; inner lip banded with 
brownish-purple and _ purplish-white. 
Length, 1°15; breadth, ‘52; angle of spire, 45°. 
North Island to Lyttelton. 
C. lurida, Prlippz, Zeits, f- Malak, 1848; B. costatum, var. Q. & G. 
r1, ~. 418, fl. 30, f 19-20. Small, spire acute ; whorls finely spirally 
striated, and transversely ribbed ; columella smooth ; outer lip grooved 
inside, not angled ; canal short ; brown or purplish ; interior paler. 
Length, *7 ; breadth, °3 ; angle of spire, 36°. 
Auckland. 
GC. huttoni, Kodet, Catalog der Gattung Cominella, p. 233; C. 
guoyana, A. Adams; P.Z.S., 1854, p. 313; not C. guoyt Kiener. Shell 
fusiform ; spire acuminate, white, spotted with reddish-brown; whorls 8, 
longitudinally obliquely plicated, the folds sub-nodulose above, trans- 
versely sulcated ; aperture oval; columella uniplicate in front ; inner 
lip lirate (Adams.) 
New Zealand. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Possibly a variety of C. costatum, Q. and G., which appears to be a 
very variable species; it has, however, well-marked characters of its 
own (Adams.) The Rev. J. Tenison-Woods considers that both this 
species and C. /actea are but varieties of C. alveolata (Kiener), a com- 
mon shell of Tasmania and South Australia (Pro. Royal Society of 
Tasmania, 1877.) 
C. melo, Lesson; Ann. d. Sct. Nat., series 2, vol. 16, p. 254 
(Buccinum.) Shell globulosely ovate, swollen, rugosely _ striated, 
reddish-brown; whorls 6, five sub-depressed, the last ventricose, 
dilated, grooved ; spire short, dilated at the base; lip simple ; aperture 
orange. 
Height, 26 lines; breadth, 18 lines (Lesson.) 
Brought from New Zealand by the frigate Venus; apparently a 
variety of C. maculata. e 
CG. funerea, Gould; U.S. Ex. Ep., xii., p. 253; B. glandiforme, 
Reeve, Conch., Ic., f. 109; B. sealandicum, Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. 
au Pole Sud. Molt., p. 24, pl. 21, f: 3-6. Shellrather thin ; whorls spirally 
striated, and transversely ribbed ; columella smooth ; outer lip smooth, 
slightly angled posteriorly; canal short; dark brown; inside dark 
purplish-brown. 
Length, °8; breadth, ‘48; angle of spire, 42°. 
Common from Stewart Island to Bay of Islands. 
GC. quoyi, tener; Lion. Cog. Viv., p. 16, pl. 5, f- 13; Keeve, 
Conch., Lc. (Buccinum), f. 107. Shell ovately oblong, fulvous, trans- 
versely, very numerously and finely longitudinally striated ; spire sharp ; 
columella prominent; aperture oval, reddish; lip arched, striated 
internally (Reeve.) 
Length, 1°5 ; breadth, ‘35. 
Perhaps a variety of C. maculata, but the spire is more pointed. 
