SUTEE : NEAV ZEALAND TllOCHID.T:. 283 



Shell perforate, spiral t;-ranular ribs very fine, wliite or pinkish- 

 white with darker spots in diagonal lines. Inside white. 



Uab. — Wellington. 



Pilsbry thinks this may prove to be the same as E. Tasmanieus, 

 Ten.-Woods. I have seen neither species. 



Subfatn. UMBONIINyE. 



Genus ETHALIA, Adams, 1853. 



43. Ethalta Zelandica (Hombr. & Jacq.). 



Rotella Zelandica, Hombr. & Jacq. : Yoy. Pole Sud, Zool. vol. v 



(1854), p. 53, pi. xiv, figs. 5, 6; Hutton, Man. New 



Zealand Moll., p. 92. 

 Rotella Neozelanica, Hombr. & Jacq. : Hutton, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 



South AVales, vol. ix, p. 357. 

 Globulus anguliferus, Philippi : Conch. Cab. (1853 ?), p. 51, pi. viii, 



tig. 3. 

 UmhoniuM chalconotum, A. Adams: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1853, p. 188. 

 Ethalia Zelandica, Hombr. & Jacq. : Pilsbry, Man. Conch., ser. i, 



vol. xi, p. 459, pi. Iviii, figs. 9, 32, 33 ; pi. lix, fig. 66. 



Shell depressed, imperforate, solid, yellowLsh or pinkish, radiately 

 streaked with chestnut-brown or red above, base with a reddish or 

 purple zone around the central callus, the outer part white. Surface 

 smooth, shining ; spire low, conoidal ; sutures linear. Last whorl 

 concave above. Umbilical area covered by a thin, radiately rugose, 

 purple and white callus. Aperture rounded-quadrate. Columella 

 short, very thick, inserted in a pad of white callus on the body over 

 the axis. Alt. 11, diam. 19 mm. 



Sah. — Auckland to Dunedin. 



