374 HAMINEA. 



rounded. Columella very concave, its edge reflexed and closely 

 appressed. 



Alt. 22, diam. 19 mill. 



Alt. 13, diam. 10J mill. 



Auckland, New Zealand. 



Eulla zelandice GRAY, in Dieffenbach's New Zealand ii, p. 243, 

 1843. SMITH, Zool. Erebus and Terror, Moll. p. 5, pi. 1, f. 10 

 (Gray's type figured). Haminea zealandice HUTTON, Man. N. Z. 

 Moll. p. 121. GILLIES, Trans. N. Z. Inst. xiv, p. lll.H. obesa 

 Sows., Conch. Icon. f. 13. B. (H.) pemphis Phil., AD., Thes. p. 

 580, pi. 124, f. 91. Haminea pempfiix Phil., Sows., Conch. Icon. f. 

 12. Not B. pemphis Philippi, con/. Smith, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), 

 ix, p. 347. 



An unusually globular species, everywhere well rounded, with no 

 distinct spiral sculpture even under the lens. Fig. 86 represents 

 the synonymous H. pemphix Ad. and Sowb., not Phil. Fig. 11 is 

 the type of zelandice, and f. 12 is Sowerby's H. obesa. 



H. CASTANEA A. Adams. PI. 41, fig. 14. 



Shell solid, oblong, oval ; spire umbilicated, whitish, covered with 

 a brown ferruginous epidermis, engraved (under the lens) with very 

 iine close-set lines, the anterior ones very distinct and wide apart, 

 longitudinally substriated ; inner lip anteriorly white and thick- 

 ened ; aperture white within (Ad.). 



New Zealand (Ad.). 



B. (H.) castanea AD., Thes. p. 584, no. 78a, pi. 124, f. 106a. 

 H. castanea SOWB., C. Icon. f. 28. 



The locality lacks confirmation by New Zealand naturalists. 



Species of unknown habitat. 

 H. FLAVESCENS A. Adams. PI. 41, fig. 15. 



Shell small, suboval, anteriorly semitruncated, yellowish, pellucid, 

 longitudinally substriated, with very minute transverse lines very 

 close together ; outer lip posteriorly angled and rounded (Ad.}. 



Habitat unknown. 



B.fiavescens A. AD., Thes. p. 582, pi. 124, f. 99. H. flavescens 

 SOWB., Conch. Icon. f. 31. 



H. MALLEATA Smith. Unfigured. 



Shell whitish, subpellucid, quadrate-ovate, irregularly malleated, 

 striated transversely delicately, and with growth lines ; aperture 



