Hutton. — On Ehachiglossate Mollusca. 231 



Pisania antaectica, Eeeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 30 (1845) ; Tryon, 

 Man. Conch., hi., pi. 72, f. 228 [not Buccinum antarcticum, Philippi, 1868] . 

 Buccinum campbelli, Filhol, Comptes Eendus, 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. Beeve's figure is very bad. 



Sub-fain. Buccinina. 



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, pi. 49 (1784) ; 

 Beeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 16 ; Tryon, Man. Conch., hi., pi. 81, f. 



421. Buccinum turgidum, Gmelin (after Solander). B. testudineum, Quoy 

 and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., pi. 30, f. 12; Tryon, I.e., hi., pi. 81, f. 



422. 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., 

 pi. xiii., f. l. The operculum is also figured by Adams in the Gen. of Moll. ; 

 and the dentition by Troschel, ii., taf. viii., f. 3. 



Cominella maculosa, Martyn, Univ. Conch., Buccinum, pi. 8 (1784) ; 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., hi., pi. 81, f. 423 [not P. maculosa, Lamarck] . Buc- 

 cinum testudinea, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. ii., pi. 30, f. 8 

 to 11 ; Gray, Figs. Moll. Anim., i., pi. 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., pi. xiii., f. m. ; and by Hogg in the Trans. Boy. Micro. Soc, 1868 

 (species doubtful). 



Cominella testudinea, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., Buccinum, x., f. 1454 

 (1788) ; Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 6Q ; Tryon, Man. Conch., hi., pi. 80, 

 f. 414. B. cataracta, Chemnitz, I.e., x., f. 1455 ; Tryon, I.e., hi., pi. 80, 

 f. 415. 



Hab. Auckland. Chatham Islands. 



