MoUusca.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OP NEW ZEALAND. 25 



slightly flattened below the suture, convex at periphery and base. Suture super- 

 ficial, white-banded below. Aperture pyriform, subvertical, angled above, regularly 

 arched and somewhat effuse below. Peristome sharp, simple, the outer lip very 

 little convex, slightly advancing at the middle. Columella subvertical, arcuate ; 

 inner lip narrow, callous. There is a very slight umbilical depression. 



Diameter — Maj., 2-4 mm. ; min., 2 mm. Height, 6-4 mm. 



Type in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. 



Hab. — Carnley Harbour, Auckland Islands, on shore (Professor Benham). 



Fam. CHRYSODOMIDAE, Cossmann. 



Genus Euthria, Gray, 1850. 



Distribution. — Japan, California, Mediterranean, South America, Falkland 

 Islands, New Zealand, Kerguelen, and South Africa. 

 This is a distinctly southern genus. 



Euthria linea (Martyn), 1784. 



Buccinum linea, Martyn, Univ. Conch., ii, 1784, fig. 48. Fusus lineatus, Quoy and 

 Gaimard, Voy. " Astrolabe," ii, p. 501, pi. xxxiv, figs. 6-8. Euthria 

 lineata, Martyn, Man. Conch. (1), iii, p. 151, pi. Ixxii, figs. 229-231. 



Hab. — Antipodes, Auckland, and Campbell Islands. 

 Throughout New Zealand and Chatham Islands. 



Subsp. pertinax, Martens, 1878. 



Euthria lineata pertinax, Martens, Sitzber. Naturf. Fr., Berlin, 1878, p. 23. E. lineata, 

 var. A, Hutton, M.N.Z.M., p. 51. 



Hab. — Auckland Islands. 



Also Hauraki Gulf, Banks Peninsula, and Foveaux Strait. 



Euthria vittata (Quoy and Gaimard), 1833. 



Fusus vittatus, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. " Astrolabe," ii, 1833, p. 504, pi. xxxiv, 

 figs. 18, 19. Euthria vittata, Q. and G., Man. Conch. (1), iii, p. 152, 

 pi. Ixxii, figs. 235, 236. Buccinum trilineatum. Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1846, 

 fig. 98. Fusus bicinctus, Hutton, C.M.M., p. 10. Euthria hicincta, Hutton, 

 J. de Conch., 1878, p. 15. 



Hah. — Auckland Islands. 



Throughout New Zealand and Chatham Islands. 



Euthria littorinoides (Reeve), 1846. 



Buccinum littorinoides. Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1846, fig. 46. Euthria lineata littori- 

 noides. Reeve, Man. Conch. (1), iii, p. 151, pi. Ixxii, fig. 231. Euthria 

 lineata, Martyn, var. C: Hutton, M.N.Z.M., p. 51. 



Hab. — Auckland Islands (Professor Benham). 

 Throughout New Zealand. 



