APPEXDIX-ACM j;iih>;. 1 69 



1095, 1880) a probable synonym. P. campbelli is insufficiently 

 diagnosed. 



A. CONOIDEA Q. & G. (p. 53). 



Hutton records this from Banks' Peninsula, X. Z. 



A. FLAMMEA Q. & G. (p. 57). 



Hutton reports this from New Zealand, Auckland to Dunedin. 



A. CRUCIATA Linne. PL 73, fig. 95. 



Shell oval, moderately solid, varying in elevation from subde- 

 pressed to subconical, usually found smooth, but rayed in fresh and 

 perfect individuals with very fine raised stride. Coloring rather 

 variable, yet almost always exhibiting a more or less cruciform 

 arrangement ; when most characteristic, displaying four broad white 

 rays upon a white spreckled ground of blackish-brown that are 

 usuall v bisected, as they spread, by a short dark streak which at times 

 becomes so broad as to produce the appearance of there being eight 

 narrow white rays, or of a cross with white edges and a brown 

 center ; occasionally, too, there are narrower interstitial rays besides. 

 Apex blunt, yet prominent, always white both within and without, 

 placed at rather more than one-third the space from the narrower 

 end. Interior with a faint central brown spatula-shaped stain, 

 intersected by the external rays, which appear more or less visibly 

 through the very thin white glaze that lines the rest of the cavity. 

 Length three-fourths of an inch ; breadth half an inch. Worn in- 

 dividuals exhibit a brown cross upon a white ground. (Hanley.} 



Habitat unknown. 



Patella cruciata L., Syst. Xat. x, p. 784. SCHRCETER, Einleitung 

 in die Conchylien-Kenntniss, ii, p. 432, t. 5, f. 6. Acmcea cruciata 

 HAXLEY, Shells of Linn., p. 429; Wood's Index Testae., p. 189, t. 

 38, f. 78, (edit. Hauley). ? Patella insignia MKE., Moll. Nov. Holl. 

 Spec., p. 34 ; Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1844, p. 62. 



Compare Acniwa crucis Tenison-Woods. The figure is reduced in 

 size. 



P. IXSIGNIS Menke. 



Shell ovate, convex, shining, subpellucid, obsoletely concentric- 

 ally striated, vertically subsulcate behind, whitish, painted with five 

 or six rather wide reticulated brown rays. Vertex excentric, mar- 



