THE 



SUBANTARCTIG ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



ARTICLE I.-THK MOLLl'SO ^F THE SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS 



OF NLV ZEALA>^D. 



By Henry Sutei. 



PLATE I. 



Fam. ISCHNOCHITONIDAE. 



Genus Ischnochiton, Gray, 1847. 

 Distribution. — World-wide. 



Ischnochiton cot ^otus (Reeve), ^^^. 



Chiton contractus, Reeve, Conch. Icon., Chiton, 1847, pi. xv, fig. 78 ; Man. Conch. (1), 

 xiv, p. 93, pi. xxiii, figs. 81, 82; Suter, P. Mai. S., vii, p. 293. Chiton decus- 

 satus. Reeve, Conch. Icon., Chiton, pi. xviii, fig. 107. Chiton castus, Reeve, 

 t.c, pi. xxii, fig. 145. Lepidopleurus speciosus. Ad. and .„.g , P.Z.S., 1864, 

 p. 192 ; 18P5, p. 187. 



The girdle-scah " deeply grooved, the lateral areas with radial wrinkles, 

 cut up into granule* 



Hah. — Aucklanu xjds (Captain J. Bollons). 

 Also Tasmania and Australia. 



Ischnochiton parked, Sutei, 1897. 



Ischnochiton parkeri, Suter, P. Mai. S., ii, 1897, p. 186, figs. 1-6 in text. Lepido- 

 pleurus circumvcdlatus, Reeve : Hutton, M.N.Z.M., p. 113 (not of Reeve). 

 Ischnochiton longicymba, Q. and G. : Filhol and Hutton (not of Quoy and 

 Gaimard). 

 The girdle-scales are also deeply grooved, but the iireas with broad 



concentric ridges, radiate riblets present or indistinct. 



Hob. — Auckland Islands (Professor Benham) ; Campbell Island (Professor 

 Chilton). 

 1—8. 



