T. W. KiKK. — On new Tertiary Fossils. 409 



Art. LXIX. — Description of neiv Tertiary Fossils. By T. W. Kirk, 

 Assistant in the Colonial Museum. 

 [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2lst January, 1882.] 

 The species now described formed part of a small collection of fossils from 

 the tertiary beds near Petane, Hawke's Bay, submitted to me for deter- 

 mination by Mr. A. Hamilton. 

 Trivia zealanclica. 



Spire hidden ; transverse strias passing only a short way up the sides of 

 the shell ; back smooth and poHshed. 



Length '5, breadth -SS inch. 

 Marginella jpropinqua. 



Marginella propinqua, Tate ; Trans. Phil. Soc. of Adelaide, 1877-8, p, 94. 



' ' Shell oblong-cylindrical, solid, light horn-coloured, transversely streaked 

 with white, enamelled; aperture triangular, with a broad milk-white varix 

 strongly denticulated on the bevelled edge ; columella five-plicate. 



"Length -45, breadth -22 inch." (Tate). 

 Marginella hectori. 



Shell highly polished ; spire moderate ; aperture rather wide ; columella 

 with four plaits, the posterior one being the most prominent. Lip incurved, 

 not denticulate. 



Length -45, breadth -25 inch. 

 Erato lactea, Button ; Man. of N.Z. Moll., p. 63. 



Helix greenwoodi. Gray; P.Z.S., 1849, p. 165; Man. of N.Z. Moll., p. 16. 

 Pleurotoma tuberculata. 



Shell fusiform, spire about half the length of the shell ; whorls eight, 

 angled posteriorly ; a row of tubercles on the superior angle of each whorl, 

 and a similar row of smaller ones filling up the suture ; spirally ribbed ; 

 body whorl with about eleven ribs crossed by lines of growth. Aperture 

 moderate, outer lip angled posteriorly. 



Length 1 inch, breadth '45 inch. 

 Gardita lutea, Hutton. 



C. lutea, Hutton ; Man. of N.Z. Moll., p. 159. 



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