Fintay.—Additions to Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. 523 
Laevilitorina cystophora n. sp. (Figs. 6, 7.) 
Shell very small, subglobose, subperforate, smooth, thin and fragile. 
Sculpture of growth-lines only. Colour fuscous, horny near aperture, 
epidermis not shining; shell generally overlaid with rusty-brown granulose 
eee, obscuring upper whorls. Spire very short, obtuse, about one- 
thi aperture. Protoconch minute, flat, eroded. Whorls about 2, 
ама ы increasing, convex, the last very large, base rounded. 
Suture viewed from above narrowly canaliculate, in other positions incon- 
spicuous. Aperture pear-shaped, not quite symmetrical, fuscous. Peri- 
stome continuous, thin and sharp, parietal callus distinct. Columella 
arcuate, faintly twisted, hardly callous. Umbilicus often obsolete, at 
most only a narrow chink, no carina каныны it. Operculum normal. 
Dinger 0-9 mm. ; height, 1 
Type in the author's bollection. 
Hab.—Taieri Beach, in seaweed-washings ; very common on Cystophora 
to the exclusion of almost all other forms, rare elsewhere. A few specimens 
were also obtained in seaweed-washings from Breaker Bay, Wellington, so 
that the species, though hitherto unobserved, is widely distributed. 
Remarks.—A cl ni E. A. Smith, from which it 
differs in the consistently much smaller size, more ar-sha ped aperture, 
and absence of a basal keel round the chink-like pe зет, From 
L. micra it differs in its larger size, more globose form, much shorter 
spire, flatter whorls, and absence of a distinct umbilicus. 
Verconella compta n. sp. (Plate 52, fig. 2.) 
Shell small, fusiform, elongate (especially solenne ris bluntly- 
бойды gres axially and spirally sculptured. Axial ribs prominent 
on all whorls, beginning to fade out =r at a aon distance from Eating 
otherwise айа E ‚ the same ша танар continues over canal. Sculpture 
alters slightly on shoulder ; between suture and first regular spiral are 2 
similar but more distant spirals, and spaces between these bear about dius fine 
er 
lip with red-brown tinge. Spire conical, a little over height of a ест 
plus canal, outlines straight. Pro toconch small, of little over 2 whorls, 
volutions and nucleus distinct, slightly askew, horny-coloured and minutely 
‚ granulate ; axial acceleration is shown and axials develop i in brephic stage 
before spirals. Whorls about 73, disproportionately increasing (body-whorl 
cage bluntly shouldered above middle, shoulder strongly sloping wein 
very little concave, then dropping in from. vertica 1 to lower sut 
not much excavate ted, regularly rounded. Suture rather i lee pium. iius 
to whorl below w being prominently flattened upwards to clasp whorl above. 
Aperture a little oblique, quadrately pyriform, angled and slightly chan- 
nelled above, with very long canal below ; this is flexed to left and slightly 
backwards, narrowed medially by encroachment of inner lip 
out near its roun ase. Ou ter li 
it projects farthest 
near i base, and « on shoulder is considerably cut. in to form a wide sinus. 
