(..VSTEROPODA. 



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59. N. Vitrea, Hutton, Cat. Marine Moll, p. 21. 

 Localities. — Waiiganui (u) ; Shakespeare Cliff. 



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60. N. SOlida, Sowerhy (in Darwin's Geo. Obs. on South America, 

 p.2o5). Sub-globose, thick, smooth, spire short; ^'horls five or six, 

 suture inconspicuous ; aperture oval ; inner lip much thickened pos- 

 teriorly ; umbilicus mediocre, at last covered up. Axis, 2 Go ; breadth, 

 2-6. 



Localities. — Kanieri ; Conway Eiver ; Broken Eiver (u) ; Kawau ; 

 Weka Pass (m?) ; Chatham Islands ; AYaipara Gorge ; Hurunui Mound. 



61. N. (Mamilla) OVata, sj). nov. Pyriformly ovate, smooth, 

 thick, vs^ith fine transverse stria? ; whorls five or six, suture closed ; 

 aperture semi-lunar ; inner lip much thickened posteriorly ; umbilicus 

 large, never covered up. Axis, 1-4:5 ; breadth, 1"25. 



Localities. — Shakespeare Clifi"; Callaghan's Creek; Motanau (l) ; 

 Kanieri ; Broken Eiver (u and l) ; "Weka Pass (m) ; Oapaaru ; Awa- 

 moa; Lyndon, 



62. N. (?) callosa, sp. nov. Convolute ; spire flat, hidden ; body 

 whorl very large, rather flattened in the middle, and produced out- 

 wards ; smooth, finely transversely striated ; aperture small, oblong ; 

 columella with an enormous posterior callosity. Axis, 145 ; breadth, 

 1-6. 



Localities. — Castle Point, "Wellington (?). 



SIGARETUS. 



Aperture rounded, spire oblique. 



63. S. SUbgloboSUS, Soiverhi/ (in Darwin's Geo. Ohs. on South 

 America, p. 254). Sub-globose; whorls four; finely spirally striated. 

 Axis, '45 ; breadth, '45. 



Localities. — Awamoa. 



Family — Scalarid^. 

 SCALARIA. 



64. S. browni, Zittel, Voy. Nomra, Pal(S.,p. 42. Shell elongated, 

 turreted, imperforate ; apex acute ; spire composed of eight whorls ; 

 whorls rather convex, densely ribbed longitudinally ; varices numerous ; 

 ribs thick and conspicuous, about sixteen to eighteen in a whorl, sub- 

 equal, elevated ; body whorl keeled near the base. Axis, 1*1 ; breadth, 

 •35 ; angle of spire, 10° to 11°. 



Localities. — Brighton; Aotea (Hochstetter). 



65. S. lyrata, Zittel, Voj/. Novara, Palw., p. 41. Shell largo, 

 solid, turreted, imperforate; whorls convex, loDgitudinally ribbed and 

 transversely lyrate ; sutures deep ; ribs elevated, sub-eqiial, thirteen 

 to fourteen in a whorl, sub-spinose ; varices hardly conspicuous and 

 few in number, lira) transversely acute, distant, fibout eight in a 

 whorl ; base carinated ; aperture rounded. Axis, 2 : breadth, 9o ; 

 angle of spire, 18°. 



