SHELLS. 239 



Shell conical, white, purple dotted ; whorls flat, with an elevated 

 upper edge, and 6 or 1 spiral rows of beads ; base flat, closely 

 beaded, and purple dotted ; umbilicus conical, deep, smooth, opake, 

 white. 



84. Polydonta tuberculata. n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Dr. Dieffenbach. 



Shell conical, rather produced, whitish; whorls flat, with 4 

 series of large rounded tubercles; the front of the last whorl flat, 

 with rather close spiral ridges, the inner ones the largest, and the 

 outer ones very small ; umbilicus conical, with three spiral ridges ; 

 opake, white. 



85. Elenchus Iris. Humph. Cal. Cat. 25, n. 434. Lima- 



con opalus. Martyn, U. C., t. 24. Trochus Iris. 

 Gmel 3580; Chemn. ,v., f. 1522-23. Turbo piarag- 

 dus. Gmel., 1 12. Cantharidus Iris. Montf., ii. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Martyn. Cook's Straits. Dr. 

 Dieffenbach. 



86. Elenchus purpuratus. Limax purpuratus. Martyn, 



U. C., t. 68, f. 2. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Martyn. Bay of Islands. 

 Dieffenbach. 



87. Elenchus elegans. Trochus elegans. Gmel., 3581 . 



Zorn. Naturf., vii., 167, t. 2, f. D 1 and D2. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Chemn. 



Fam. HALIOTID.E. 



88. Haliotis Iris. Martyn, U. C., t. 61. Wood, Cat., 



f. 13; Chemn., x., f. 1612-13. 



Inhabits New Zealand. Martyn. Cook's Straits. Dief- 

 fenbach. East coast, abundant. Dr. Sinclair. 

 " The foot black when alive. The * mutton-fish 1 of the colonists ; 

 eaten boiled, but very tough. Pieces of the shell are used as bait 

 to fish-hooks." Dr. Sinclair. 



89. Haliotis Virginia. Chemn.x., 314, t. 166, f. 1607-8. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Chemn. 



*90. Haliotis Australis. Gmelin. H. rugosoplicata. 



Chemn., x., f. 1604-5. 

 Inhabits New Zealand, New Holland. Chemn. 



