HuTTON. — Contributions to New Zealand Malacology. SOl 



forward and to the right. It then passes diagonally over the stomach to 

 the left, and then diagonally to the right round the aorta. It then proceeds 

 backward for a short distance, as far as the pylorus, and turns sharply to 

 the right and forward to the anus. (PI. VI., f.E.) 



Reproductive organs. The ovotestis is small, round, and dark pu.rple. 

 It. lies on the liver behind the last turn of the intestine. The albumen 

 gland is very large, with a smooth outline. The spermatheca is pinkish, 

 oval, and with a long neck. The oviduct swells out before opening into the 

 common genital orifice. The penis sac is long and narrow, and lies just 

 under the pulmonary chamber, the retractor muscle is attached at the 

 anterior end. There is no prostate gland. 



ONcmDELLA NiGEicANS. The Ungual teeth are arranged in transverse 

 rows which form an acute angle in the middle, pointing forwards. They 

 are acute, and very numerous, more than 200 in a transverse row. Adams 

 gives it as a character of the family that the teeth are in straight transverse 

 rows. 



Auricula quoyi, Adams. Described by Sowerby in the " Conchologia 

 Iconica," fig. 39, and stated to come from New Zealand. I very much 

 doubt the correctness of the locality. 



Tealia cc^tellaris. This is figured by Sowerby in the " Conchologia 

 Iconica," fig. 42. 



Ophicaedelus austealis. This is figured by Sowerby in the " Con- 

 chologia Iconica," fig. 84. 



SiPHONAEiA oBLiQUATA. Lingual teeth about 80 in a transverse row. 



SiPHONAEiA siPHO. Lingual teeth about 60 in a transverse row. Animal 

 yellowish ochre, spotted with dark purple ; foot yellow. 



Gadinia nivea. Lingual teeth arranged in transverse rows which form 

 an obtuse angle in the middle, very minute, about 100 in a transverse row. 

 Absent from the median line. 



DEFEANcmA LUTEO-FASciATA. Animal yellowish white with a narrow 

 black longitudinal line on the back of the head, between the eyes ; some 

 scattered dead-white spots on the body and siphon. Tentacles thick, ap- 

 proximated; the eyes at then' outer bases. Siphon curved. Foot expanded 

 in front, nicked on each side. No operculum. 



Not uncommon on seaweed in Port Lyttleton. 



Neptunea kodosa. Quoy figures the animal with a long recurved siphon. 

 This should put it into the Buccinidce. It will probably form a new genus. 



EuTHRiA lineata, variety D. Animal pale yellow ochre. Eyes half- 

 way up the tentacles. Siphon short. Foot emarginate in front. The 

 animal resembles that of Neptunea. 



EuTHRiA lineata, variety C. Animal like the last, but white. 



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