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., pi. xiii., f. n. 



Cominella virgata, Adams, Genera of Moll., pi. 16, f. 6a (1858). 

 Buccinum quoyi, Beeve, Conch. Icon., f. 36 (lineolatum) (1846) ; Tryon, 

 Man. Conch., hi., pi. 80, f. 417 [not of Kiener] . Buccinum, lineolatum, 

 Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. ii., p. 419, pi. 30, f. 14-16 [not 

 of Lamarck] ; Gray, Figs. Moll. Aniin., i., pi. 5, f. 1 ; Tryon, Man. Conch., 

 hi., pi. 81, f. 425. B. hevigatum, 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 Trans. N.Z. 

 Institute, xv., pi. 13, f. k. 



Cominella nassoides, Eeeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 12 (1845); 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., hi., pi. 81, f. 442 [not Nassaria nassoides, Gray] . B. 

 zealandicum, Cat. Marine Moll, of N.Z., p. 14 (1873), [not of Beeve] . C. 

 nodicincta, Martens, Sitzb. Berlin, 23, (1878) ; Tryon, I.e., hi., pi. 8] , f. 443. 

 Hab. 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 Bendus, 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. 



Cominella huttoni, Kobelt, Cat. d. Gattung, Cominella, p. 233 (1878). 

 Buccinum costatum, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. hi., pi. 30, 

 f. 19, 20 [not of Lamarck] ; Tryon, Man. Conch., hi., pi. 81, f. 431. C. 

 quoy ana, Adams, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1854, p. 313 [not of Kiener, nor of Beeve]. 

 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. 



