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interior white in the centre, with more or tess brownish-purple round the 
margin. 
Height, °55 ; length, ‘65. 
A single right valve only, but common as a fossil at Wanganui. 
C. paupercula, Chemnitz; Deshayes, Cat. Conch., Brit. Mus., p. 
158; Wood Ind. Test., pl. 7, f. 31. Sub-cordate, smooth, sparingly 
marked with reddish spots and veins on a brownish ground. 
New Zealand (British Museum). Australia (?). 
Chemnitz gives this shell from Coromandel ; it is not mentioned by 
Reeves. 
Genus—CALLISTA—Poli. 
Mantle margins plicate, with filaments above the base of the respira- 
tory siphon; siphons united to their ends, crowned with simple cirri. 
Shell ovato-oblong ; a small, anterior, lateral tooth ; pallial sinus broad, 
oblong, profound, horizontal ; margin entire; three cardinal teeth in 
each valve. 
C. multistriata, Sow. Zhes. Conch. 1, p. 628, pl. 136, f. 1773 
Reeve, Conch. Ic., f. 60 (Dione ;) Deshayes, lc. p. 64. Oval, sub- 
elongate, finely concentrically striated ; anterior end shorter ; posterior 
sub-acuminate ; lunule ovate, reddish; variegated and interruptedly 
radiated with brown, fulvous, or pink ; pallial sinus broad. 
Height, °55 ; length, ‘8s. 
Wellington (F. W. H.) 
I cannot agree with Mr. Tenison-Woods in considering C. dreman- 
ensts, Hanley, as a synonym: of this species. 
Gaicrupta, Sew hes. Conch. J., p~. 743, 1.163, f. 2085 
Deshayes, lc, fp. 69. Oval, sub-compressed, finely concentrically 
striated ; anterior end rather short; posterior sub-acuminate ; lunule 
excavated, dorsal margin arched, variegated with large brownish-purple 
spots ; yellowish-white, spotted and interruptedly raved with yellowish- 
brown, or purple ; pallial sinus narrow. 
Height, -9; length, 105. 
New Zealand. (British Museum.) Australia. (Angas.) 
Dr. v. Martens considers both this species and the last as synonyms 
of C. planatella, Lamark. 
Sub-Family—A rtemine. 
Siphons united ; foot sub-quadrangular, without a byssal groove. 
Shell orbicular ; pailial sinus oblique, triangular. 
Genus, ARTEMIS—Poli. 
Mantle margin plicate. Shell orbicular, compressed ; pallial sinus 
oblique, triangular ; hinge large, with three cardinal teeth in each valve, 
and an anterior lateral tooth. Shell ornamented with concentric strie. 
