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APPENDIX. 



No. V. 



II. GASTROPODA. 



Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea, Mighels and Adams. 



Hab. Discovery Bay, 5 fathoms (Feilden). 



Only one rather elongated specimen was obtained. 



Fusus (Sipho) tortuosus ? Eeeve. 



Hab. Shore of Hayes Sound, 79 N. lat. (Feilden)', 

 Dobbin Bay 30, fms. (Hart). 



Buccinum hydrophanum, Hancock. 



Hab. Franklin Pierce Bay (Feilden and 'Hart) ; Dobbin 

 Bay, 30 fms. (Hart). 



Buccinum Belcheri, var. Eeeve. 



Hab. Dobbin Bay, 30 fms. (Hart). 



Shell ovately conical, very thin, purplish brown, with a 

 few paler streaks here and there ; whorls 5-J, very convex, 

 spirally distinctly ridged, the ridges being 

 alternately longer, longitudinally rather 

 coarsely striated by the lines of growth, 

 and very obsoletely plicated ; mouth ir- 

 regularly ovate, large, occupying more 

 than half the entire length of the shell, 

 of the same colour as the exterior, termi- 

 nating inferiorly in a short, slightly re- 

 curved canal ; columella oblique, scarcely 

 arcuated, smooth, shining, whitish to- 

 / /i A/IAAA K . wards the base ; epidermis thin, oliva- 

 ceous, and laminated slightly on the 

 principal distinct incremental lines or 

 raised lirulse ; operculum circularly ovate, 



Length 33 millims., diam. 17 ; aperture 19 millims. long 

 and 11 wide. 



BUCCINUM BELCHERI. 



