[42 TELLINID. 
concentrically striated. Purplish white, obscurely rayed with darker ; 
interior pinkish-purple. 
Height, 1°5 ; length, 2°5. 
Common. Auckland to Otago. 
The Natives call this shell “‘ wahawaha.” 
P. lineolata, Gray, Dieff. N.Z, ii. p. 253; Voy. Erebus and 
Terror, Moll. pl. 2, f. 11; Reeve, Conch. Ic., f. 58. Elongato-oblong, 
compressed, rounded in front and slightly angled behind ;_ purplish-pink, 
with darker concentric bands, and radiating rays of lighter; interior 
reddish-purple. 
Height, 1°5 ; length, 3. 
Common. Auckland to Dunedin. Chatham Islands. 
P. zealandica, Deshayes, P.Z.S., 1854, p. 319; P. zonalis, C._M. 
M., non. Lam. Shell ovate, transverse, equilateral, rather short, rounded 
on both sides, compressed, transversely obsoletely and irregularly striated ; 
white, ornamented with interrupted rays or spots of purplish-red, interior 
white, rays paler ; pallial sinus large, broad, deep, elliptic (Deshays). 
New Zealand (Cuming). 
P. affinis, Reeve, Conch. Ic., f. 22. Shell ovately transverse, equi- 
lateral, transversely rudely striated, strize almost obsolete in the middle, 
distinct anteriorly, slightly plicated posteriorly ; yellowish white, pro- 
miscuously rayed towards the margin with flesh-rose, sides rounded, the 
posterior but little truncated (Reeve). 
New Zealand, and the Philippine Islands. 
Genus, SOLETELLINA—Blainville. 
Shell, oval-oblong, compressed, equivalve, sub-equilateral, umbones 
slightly posterior, rounded in front, more attenuated and sub-carinate 
behind; hinge straight ; teeth 3. 
S. nitida, Gray, Dief. N.Z.,u., p. 253. Smith, Voy. Erebus and 
Terror, Moll. pl. 2, f. 9; nec. Reeve, f. 6. Shell oval, oblong, thin, pel- 
lucid, porous, rounded in front and rather tapering behind, covered with 
a hard polished horn-colored periostraca ; inner surface purplish white, 
or purple ; hinge teeth small (Gray). 
Auckland to West Coast Sounds and Dunedin. 
The following is Reeves’ description of the specimen figured under 
this name: Shell rather compressed, nearly equilateral, purplish-white, 
covered with a smooth, shining, transparent, horny epidermis, anterior 
side rounded, posterior shorter, slopingly acuminated, and concentri- 
cally wrinkled. 
New Zealand. (Strange.) 
S. siliqua, Reeve, Conch. Ic., f- 10. Shell narrowly transverse, 
thin, equilateral, smooth, flesh-white, covered with a shining transparent 
olive horny epidermis, faintly two-rayed on the posterior side, anterior 
side rounded, posteriorly obliquely acuminately rounded (Reeve.) 
New Zealand. (Hart.) 
