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PISANIA ANTARCTICA, Reeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 80 (1845); Tryon, 
Man. Conch., iii., pl. 72, f. 228 [not Buccinum antarcticum, Philippi, 1868]. 
Buccinum campbelli, Filhol, Comptes Rendus, xci. (1880), p- 1094. 
Hab. Banks Peninsula. Auckland Islands and Campbell Island. 
Found also at the Falkland Islands. 
Interior purplish brown ; columella and outer lip white. 
The operculum and dentition are unknown. This species is perhaps the 
same as Fusus rufa, Homb. and Jacq. Reeve's figure is very bad. 
Sub-fam. Buccinine. 
Foot simple ; eyes variously placed. Shell ovate, the lip thin ; aperture 
with a short oblique notch. 
Genus Cominella, Gray. 
Animal with a long siphon and eyes on the sides of the tentacles. Lateral 
teeth with two cusps; central with three. Operculum ovate, with the 
nucleus apical. Shell with a groove at the suture, and a posterior canal. 
ComINELLA MACULATA, Martyn, Univ. Conch., Buccinum, pl. 49 (1784) ; 
Reeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 16; Tryon, Man. Coneh., iii., pl. 81, f. 
491. Buccinum turgidum, Gmelin (after Solander). B. testudineum, Quoy 
and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., pl. 30, f. 12; Tryon, l.c., iii., pl. 81, f. 
499. Buccinum melo, Lesson, Ann. des Sci. Nat., 1840. 
Hab. Auckland. Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands. 
Shell turgid; yellowish gray with spiral rows of brown spots ; columella 
yellow. 
The operculum and dentition are figured in the Trans. N.Z. Inst., XV., 
pl. xiii., f.1. The operculum is also figured by Adams in the Gen. of Moll.; 
and the dentition by Troschel, ii., taf. viii., f. 8. 
COMINELLA MACULOSA, Martyn, Univ. Conch., Buccinum, pl. 8 (1784); 
Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 81, f. 423 [not P. maculosa, Lamarck]. Buc- 
cinum testudinea, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. ii., pl. 80, f. 8 
to 11; Gray, Figs. Moll. Anim., i., pl. 14, f. 1 and 3 [not of Chemnitz] . 
Hab. Bay of Islands to Banks Peninsula. 
Ash-grey with twelve or thirteen spiral or interrupted dark bands; 
columella brownish purple. Much narrower than the last species. 
The operculum is figured by Quoy ; the dentition in the Trans. N.Z. 
Inst., xv., pl. xiii., f. at. ; and by Hogg in the Trans. Roy. Micro. Bos., 1868 
(species doubtful). : 
COMINELLA TESTUDINEA, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., Buccinum, x., f. 1454 
(1788) ; Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 66; Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 80, 
f. 414. B. cataracta, Chemnitz, Le., x., f. 1455; Tryon, l.c., iii., pl. 80, 
f. 415. 
Hab. Auckland. Chatham Islands. 
