280 MINERAL CENSUS OF AUSTRALASIA. 
SpineEL — Manawatu and Waipori, Otago, as rhombic dodeca- 
hedrons, nearly opaque (Hector). 
SreaTiTe, or Soap Strong! !—Milford Sound, massive ; Colling- 
wood, foliated (Hector). 
SrrpniteE ! !—Otago, Endeavour Inlet, Reefton, Langdons (Hector, 
1865) ; Thames (Hutton, 1867); Endeavour Inlet (Cox, 
1879), in schistose rocks. 
Strizpite ! !— Karori, Mangawhai, Tokatoka, Dunedin, as radiating 
pearly crystals forming films in joints of auriferous 
rocks (Skey), also in trachytic rocks as detached 
crystals (Haast, Liversidge). 
Sutpuur!!!—White Island, deposited from fumaroles and 
geysers and from an enormous spring in the centre of 
White Island (Hector, 1865); Roturua and Taupo 
districts, from Hot Springs (Hochstetter) ; Waipara, 
efHorescence from carbonaceous standstones (Haast, 
1870), efflorescence from pyritous reefs (Davis) ; Wan- 
gapeka. Analyses :— 
LIVERSIDGE Cox 
?2_——, = 
Sulphur ese]. ¢ 99/6145. (98888; .55, 00500 5 Ga 
Foreign matters 386 Tova =I 37°5 
100:000 100-000 100-00 100-00 
TacHytitEe !—Bank’s Peninsula, Oamaru, on the sides of fissures 
where basaltic dykes have intruded (Haast). 
Tatc !!—West Coast, S.I., Jackson’s Bay, Collingwood, in 
quartz, and associated with crystalline rocks (Hector). 
TARANAKITE !—Taranaki, very much like wavellite, is a double 
hydrous phosphate of alumina and potash, part of the 
alumina being replaced by ferric oxide, discovered and 
described by Skey as a new mineral. Analysis per 
cent. (Skey) :— 
Phosphoric acid f Lay [BOD 
Alumina * we ng Wea 
Ferrous oxide a ada 4°45 
Lime et Asis his a) 
Potash a4 “ae 4-20 
Soda aT Lee ... traces 
Chlorine 33 BSH ee 46 
Sulphuric acid ... traces 
Insoluble in acid (silica) 80 
Water driven off at 212° 15: 46 \ 33-06 
s As red heat 17°60 
