22 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Mollmcn. 



Genus Polinices, Montfort, 1810. 

 Distribution. — World- wide. 



Polinices (Lunatia) amphialus (Watson), 1881. 



Naiicti amphinla, Watson, J.L.S., xv, 1881, p. 260 ; Chall. Rep., xv, p. 437, pi. xxvii, 

 fig. 6. Natica vitrea, Hutton, C.M.M., p. 21. Lunatia vitrea, Hutton, 

 M.N.Z.M., p. 72. 

 Hab. — Near the Bounty Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons). 

 Also north-east from New Zealand, in 700 fathoms ; Stewart Island ; Chatham 

 Islands. 



Fam. LAMELLARIIDAE, d'Orbigny. 

 Genus Lamellaria, Montagu, 1815. 

 Distribution. — Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean. 



Lamellaria ophione, Gray, 1850. 



Latnellaria ophione. Gray, P.Z.S., 1849 (1850), p. 169. Lamellaria indica, Leach: 

 Hutton, C.M.M., p. 21 (not of Leach). Coriocella ophione, Gray : Hutton, 

 M.N.Z.M., p. 59. Marsenia ophione. Gray, Index F.N.Z., p. 80. 



Hab. — Near the Snares Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons). 

 Also Kermadec Islands, Hauraki Gulf, Cook Strait, Tasmania, and southern 

 Australia. 



Fam. TRICHOTROPIDAE, Gray. 

 Genus Trichotropis, Broderip and Sowerby, 1829. 

 Distribution. — Mostly Arctic and Antarctic. 



Trichotropis clathrata, Sowerby, 1874. 



Trichotropis dfUhrata, Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xix, pi. ii, fig. 10 ; Voy. Ereb. and 

 Terr., p. 3, pi. i, fig. 21 ; Man. Conch. (1), ix, p. 43, pL vii, fig. 51. 

 Trichotropsis inornata, Hutton, C.M.M., p. 26. 



Hab. — Snares and Bounty Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons). 

 Tliroughout New Zealand and Chatham Islands. 



Fam. SEPTIDAE. 



Genus Argobuccinum, Herrmansen, 1846. 

 Distribution. — Tropical and warm seas. 



Argobuccinum argus (Gmelin), 1790. 



Murex argus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1790, p. 3547. Triton ranelliformis. King, 

 Zool. Journ., v, 1832, p. 347. Ranella vexillum, Sowerby, Conch. Illustr., 

 1841, pi. i, fig. 3. Ranella kingi, d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., v, 1841, 



