84 VERMETID&. 
generally several small ones between bigger ones, at irregular distances ; 
sutures deep in the anterior whorls only ; mouth sub-quadrate ; reddish- 
brown or yellowish ; finely spirally banded with purplish-brown. 
Length, 3°5 ; breadth, ‘95 ; angle of spire, 20°. 
Common in the North, rare in the South. Chatham Islands. 
Animal: foot greenish or yellowish, spotted with brown; mantle 
with whitish lunules, regularly disposed ; tentacles white. (Quoy.) 
T. vittata, Hutton, CMM, p. 29. Whorls flattened, sutures 
generally scarcely showing; finely spirally striated ; mouth sub-quad- 
rate ; yellowish-white with distant spiral brown bands, about four on the 
base. ' 
Length, 1°8; breadth, *5; angle of spire, 15°. 
North Island. 
T. fulminata, ution, C.MM.., ~p. 29. Whorls flattened in the 
centre, sutures deep; finely spirally striated throughout ; mouth sub- 
quadrate ; white with longitudinal undulating markings of pinkish- 
brown. 
Length, 1°2 ; breadth, 3 ; angle of spire, 18°. 
Great Barrier Island and Auckland. 
T. pagoda, Reeve, Conch. Ic, f- 60. Shell somewhat pyrami- 
dally turreted ; whorls 14 or 15 in number, spirally sharply-ridged, con- 
spicuously encircled with a single sharp rib towards the base ; first few 
whorls two ribbed, the upper one quickly disappearing; whitish, 
obscurely flamed with light fulvous colour (Reeve.) 
Great Barrier Island. 
Closely related to 7: conspersa from China. 
Genus, EGLISIA—Gray. 
Shell elongately turreted ; whorls numerous, rounded, with obsolete 
longitudinal varices, suture depressed ; aperture orbicular, small ; inner 
lip flattened, incrassated, angulated at the fore-part, not reflexed an- 
teriorly ; outer lip thickened internally ; animal unknown. 
E. symmetrica, Hutton, C.M.M., ~. 30. Whorls rounded, with 
three equal and equally distant spiral mbs; sutures deep; mouth 
roundish ; white. 
Length, °67 ; breadth, :22; angle of spire, 23°. 
Stewart Island. 
FAMILY—VERMETID~. 
Dentition (?) Rostrum produced ; tentacles short, triangular, eyes 
small, at their external bases. Mantle with the margin entire, embracing 
the neck ; gills enclosed in a line on the left side of the mantle cavity. 
Foot cylindrical, not serving for locomotion, dilated, sub-clavate, or 
truncated in front. Operculum horny, circular, many-whorled or want- 
