64 TRITONIIDA. 
ochraceous; outer lip white with brown transverse bands from the 
nodules to the edge. 
Length, 7 ; breadth, 4; angle of spire, 50°. 
North Island. Chatham Islands. N.S. Wales. 
T. spengleri, Chemnitz; Lamark, l.c., 1x., p. 627; Reeve, Conch. 
Ic. f. 36; Chenu. f. 691. Shell thick, ponderous, spire produced ; 
whorls flattened, spirally grooved, with a row of nodules, which are 
sometimes obsolete on the body whorl; varices few ; columella with a 
small rounded tooth at the posterior end, and sometimes a few wrinkles 
in the centre ; outer ip much expanded and plicated ; canal short, sub- 
perforate ; yellowish white, covered with a pale brown transparent 
epidermis. 
Length, 55; breadth, 3; angle of spire, 40°. 
Auckland to Stewart Island. Chatham Islands. N.S. Wales. ‘Tas- 
mania. 
T. olearium, L., Reeve, Conch. Ic. f. 32; T. acclivis, Hutton CMM, 
p. 13. Shell thick ; spire rather depressed, bent slightly backwards, and 
to the right ; whorls broadly spirally channelled, the posterior ndges 
with blunt nodules ; varices few (one only) ; columella wrinkled ; outer 
lip grooved; canal slightly produced; pale brown; columella dark 
chocolate brown ; outer lip and varices banded with the same colour 
and white. 
Length, 2°75 ; breadth, 1°6 ; angle of spire, 70°. 
Auckland. Australia. 
T. fusiformis, A7zener, Zc. Cog. iv. p. 36, pl. 5, f. 23 Reeve, Conch. 
Ic. f. 6. Shell abbreviately fusiform, solid, with eight varices ; spire ac- 
cuminated, apex sharp ; whorls irregularly convoluted, rather angular at 
the upper part, transversely striated, striz alternately tessellated with 
blunt oblong granules, interstices between the strize very finely crisped, 
middle of the whorls armed with an oblique or slanting row of large 
prominent tubercules ; yellowish-bay colour, transverse strive light brown 
upon the solid varices, then articulated with bright brown and bay ; col- 
umella smooth, armed at the upper part with a small callosity ; aperture 
round, interior milk-white, lip slightly denticulated within ; canal rather 
short, curved backward. (Reeve.) 
Auckland and Sydney at 12 and 15 fathoms (Frauenfeld). Sydney 
(Angas). 
Genus, RANELLA —Lamark, 
Shell ovate, compressed ; varices two on each whorl, rounded, form- 
ing a border to the shell. 
R. leucostoma, Lamark, Zc. ix., p. 542 ; Reeve, Conch. Lc. f. 4. 
Oval ; whorls spirally striated ; varices nearly continuous, with several 
elongated tubercles between them ; columella with a prominent posterior 
tooth and a few anterior wrinkles ; outer lip thickened, toothed ; canal 
short ; reddish brown, varices banded with white and blackish-purple ; 
inside white ; covered with a brown hairy epidermis. 
