232 Transactions.— Zoology. 
Ash-grey with irregular dark markings ; columella orange-yellow at the 
anterior end. 
The operculum is similar to that of the last species. The dentition is 
figured in the Trans. N.Z. Institute, xv., pl. xiii., f. y. 
CoMINELLA virgata, Adams, Genera of Moll., pl. 16, f. 6a (1858). 
Buccinum quoyi, Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 36 (lineolatum) (1846); Tryon, 
Man. Conch., iii., pl. 80, f. 417 [not of Kiener]. Buccinum lineolatum, 
Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. ii., p. 419, pl. 80, f. 14-16 [not 
of Lamarck] ; Gray, Figs. Moll. Anim., i., pl. 5, f. 1; Tryon, Man. Conch., 
iii, pl. 81, f. 425. B. lavigatum, Hutton, Cat. N.Z. Moll., p. 14 (1873). 
Hab. Bay of Islands to Auckland. 
Ash-grey with five to eight distant narrow black spiral lines, which are 
never interrupted ; anterior end of the columella bright orange. 
The operculum is figured by Quoy, and the dentition in the Tine. N.Z, 
Institute, xv., pl. 18, f. x. 
COMINELLA NassoIDES, Reeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 12 (1845); 
Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 81, f. 442 [not Nassaria nassoides, Gray]. B. 
zealandicum, Cat. Marine Moll. of N.Z., p. 14 (1878), [not of Reeve]. C. 
nodicincta, Martens, Sitzb. Berlin, 28, (1878); Tryon, l.c., iii., pl. 81, f. 443. 
H Foveaux Straits. Chatham Islands; Auckland Islands. 
Shell nodulose at the suture; spirally ridged. Yellow-brown, the 
grooves orange brown ; interior pale yellow. The operculum and dentition 
are unknown. A very variable species. 
ComineLLa VENERIS, Filhol, Comptes Rendus, xci. (1880), p. 1094 
(Buccinum). 
Hab. Campbell Island. 
Epidermis greyish; columella and margin of the mouth the same 
colour. Longitudinal ribs beginning at the apex, and becoming more and 
more marked; transverse ribs on the last and penultimate whorls. Length 
1:6, breadth +6 inch. 
I have not seen this species. 
CowiwELLA muTTONI, Kobelt, Cat. d. Gattung, Cominella, p. 233 (1878). 
Buccinum costatum, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. iii., pl. 80, 
f. 19, 20 [not of Lamarck] ; Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 81, f. 481. C. 
quoyana, Adams, Pro. Zool. Soc., 1854, p. 813 [not of Kiener, nor of Reeve]. 
C. lurida, Cat. Marine Moll. of N.Z., p. 14 (1873) [not of Philippi]. 
Hab. Bay of Islands. 
Pale brown marbled with reddish brown, and with thin distant dark spiral 
lines. There are twelve longitudinal plications on a whorl, the two next the 
aperture often obsolete. The aperture is less than half the length of the 
shell. The operculum is of the ordinary form ; the dentition is unknown. 
