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size, but is very peculiar, on account of the thickness and colour 

 of the periostraca. 



143. Helix Dunnicr. Gray, Ann.Nat. Hist., vi., 1841, 317. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. Mr. Busby. 



Shell depressed, large, umbilicated, pale-brown, outer whorl 

 rather angular, smooth. 



144. Helix (carocolla) Zelandice. 

 Inhab. New Zealand. 



Shell rather depressed, top-shaped, perforated, pale horn-colour- 

 ed, pellucid, varied with reddish-brown dots, and finely concen- 

 trically striated ; spire convex, whorl scarcely raised, the outer 

 one with a short ridge-like keel, front rounded, convex, umbilicus 

 deep, narrow perstome, thin. 



*145. Helix cornu. Chemn. xi., f. 2051-52. Helix vesi- 



calis. Lam. 



Of the Cape ; has been said to come from New Zealand. 

 *146. Achatina sultana. Helix sultana. Wood, Cat. f. 75. 

 Of S. America ; has been said to come from New 

 Zealand. 



147. Bulimus antipodarum 



Inhab. Kaitaia, New Zealand. Dr. Dieffenbach. 



Shell oblong, imperforated, smooth, pale-brown, covered with a 

 pale-brown, rather opake periostraca, varied with darker streaks, 

 especially near the suture; apex reddish, bluntly rounded, whorls 

 slightly convex, mouth 



Described from a young specimen with only four whorls, and 

 an unformed mouth, which has an axis 1 inch long, and the last 

 whorl is 1 inch in diameter. It is very like in character to the 

 Bulimus Julgetans, Brod., from the Philippine Islands. 



148. Bulimus Jibr at us. Helix aurantia. Ferusac, Prod. 

 47. Perry, t. 29, f. 1. Bulimus bovinus. Brug. Limax 

 fibratus. Martyn, Chemn. ix.t. 121, f. 1039-40. Vo- 

 luta australis. Diellwyn. Auricula aurisbovina. Lam. 



Inhab. Cape Maria Van Dieman. New Zealand. Dr. 



Dieffenbach. 



Two dead washed specimens, with the outer lip thickened in- 

 ternally, and broadly sinuated. 



FAM. ONCHIDIAD^E. 



149. Onchidium patelloide. Quay et Gaini. Voy. AstroL 

 ii. 212, t. 15, f. 21-23. 



Inhab. New Zealand, Tasman's Bay. 



