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completely filled by funicle ; apertural callus narrow, restricted, posterior 
end separated by marked channel from outer lip; two well-marked almost 
parallel grooves cross callus, the lower about middle of funicle, the other 
1 w one about top of funicle, and generally coincident with а 
short spur of callus projecting on to parietal wall. 
Holotype in collection of New Zealand Geological Survey. 
m. 
Localities.—227, Kanieri (type); 6B, 7c, 8a, Clifden, Southland ; 1090, 
“ Tawhiti beds," one mile north-west of Kahukura, Block V, Waiapu 
Survey District; 1157, mouth of Awatere River, East Cape Survey Dis- 
trict; 1158, coast, 30-80 chains east of mouth of Awatere River, East 
Cape Survey District ; Otiake (H. J. Finlay). 
callus tapers off gradually below and is not contracted quickly as in 
U. modestus. Also, even when the umbilicus is sealed, there is a deeper 
depression in that region. 
Uber scalptus n. sp. (Plate 57, fig. 11.) 
Shell of moderate size, broadly ovate; spire rather low but pointed ; 
parietal callus moderate, widening over umbilicus and coalescing wi 
funicle, crossed by two grooves and often by other numerous short irregular 
ones, the two main grooves situated fairly low down, converging; umbilicus 
completely closed. 
ype in collection of New Zealand Geological Survey. 
Height (when complete), 20 mm. ; diameter, 17 mm. 
a. Subgenus EusPrRA Agassiz, 1842 (— Lunatia Gray, 1847). 
Shell globose J spire moderate; whorls convex, surface smooth except 
for fine growth-lines; aperture semilunar; outer lip straight, slightly 
retracted to suture, inclined about 30° from vertical; inner margin wit 
light callus on parietal wall; umbilieus open and without any funicle; 
opereulum horny. 
T : N. lata Lamk. (Eocene). . 
x Dall (1909, p. 87) says, “ It seems that we shall have to give up Lunatia 
ray in favour of Euspira, which has five years' priority, and of which 
