Mollusca.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 27 



Ftisus cretaceus, Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1847, fig. 48. Vitvlaria Candida, H. 

 and A. Adams, P.Z.S., 1863, p. 430. Murex lyratus, Lamarck : Hutton, 

 C.M.M., p. 7 (not of Lamarck). Fusus varius, Lamarck : Hutton, t.c, 

 p. 9 (not of Lamarck). 



Hah. — Snares Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons). 



Throughout New Zealand in the laminarian, rare in the coralline zone ; Kermadec 

 Islands. 



Trophon (Kalydon) aucklandicus (B. A. Smith), 1902. 



Euthria aucklandica, E. A. Smith, Voy. South. Cross, 1902, p. 203, pi. xxiv, figs. 12, 13. 



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

 Bollons). 



Also Preservation Inlet. . 



Trophon (Kalydon) curtus, Murdoch, 1905. 



Trophon curtus, Murdoch, T.N.Z.I., xxxvii, 1904 (1905), p. 228, pi. viii, fig. 22. 



Hob. — Near the Snares and Bounty Islands, in 50 fathoms (Captain J. Bollons). 

 Also Stewart Island, Hauraki Gulf, and Whangaroa Harbour. 



Trophon (Kalydon) erectus, n. nov. 



Trophon columnaris, Suter, P. Mai. S., viii, p. 178, pi. vii, fig. 1 (not T. columnarius, 

 Hedley, 1908). 

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



Trophon (Trophonopsis) crispulatus, Suter, 1908. 



Trophon {Trophonopsis) crispulatus, Suter, P. Mai. S., viii, 1908, p. 178, pi. vii, fig. 2. 



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



Also north-east of Wreck Reef, in 50 fathoms ; twenty-four miles south-east 

 of Long Point, in 120 fathoms (E. R. Waite). 



Fam. THAISIDAE. 



Genus Thais, Bolten, 1798. 

 Distribution. — In most seas, but the maximum occurs in the tropics. 



Thais (Polytropalicus) striata (Martyn), 1784. 



Buccinum striatum, Martyn, Univ. Conch., i, 1784, fig. 7 (not of Pennant, 1777). 

 Polytropa striata, Martyn : Hutton, M.N.Z.M., p. 56. Buccinum lacunosum, 

 Bruguiere, Encycl. Meth. (Vers) (1), 1789, p. 258. Purpura rugosa, 

 Lamarck, A.s.V., vii, 1820, p. 242. Purpura rupestris, Valenciennes, Voy. 

 " Venus," pi. ix, fig. 1 ; Voy. P. Sud, p. 89, pi. xxii, fig. 23. 

 Hab. — Auckland Islands (Professor Benham); Campbell Island; Bounty 

 Islands, in 50 fathoms, embryonic shells (Captain J. Bollons). 

 South Island of New Zealand and Chatham Islands. 



