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spire smallish, convex, rather obtuse; suture impressed; whorls 4, 
rather convex, rapidly increasing, the last large, strengthened at the 
periphery with many elevated, obtuse, backwardly-descending bands, 
anteriorly descending, a little convex at the base, sub-compressed at the 
entrance of the chestnut-coloured, funnel-shaped umbilicus; aperture 
very oblique, oblongly oval, within shining, whitish; peristome simple, 
margins closely united, superior portion straight, bent backwards, 
inferior portion tkickish, dilated and reflexed towards the columella. 
Diam., greatest, 231 ; least, 19 ; height, 12 mill. 
Hab., Auckland, New Zealand (Greenwood). 
HELIX (EHYTIDA) DUNNIyE, Gray. 
Helix Dunnice, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, 1841, p. 317 ; 
Pfr., M.H.Y., vol. 1, p. 207 ; vol. 5, p. 256, No. 1587. 
Shell umbilicated, depressed, fuscous, keeled, irregularly granularly 
striated; spire slightly elevated, obtuse ; whorls 4, flattened, the last 
slightly descending anteriorly, convex beneath, compressed around a 
moderate, funnel-shaped umbilicus ; aperture very oblique, irregular, 
transversely oblong, laterally spread out; peristome simple, superior 
margin depressed, dilated in t'ront, columcllar margin shortly reflexed. 
Diam., greatest. 24; least, 20 ; height, 11 mill. 
Hab., New Zealand. 
HELIX (EH A GAD A) EEINGA, Gray. 
Helix lleinga, Gray, Unpub. List N.Z. Shells, pi. 1, fig. 11, 12; Pfr., 
M.H.Y., vol. 1, p. 289; vol. 5, p. 302, No. 1965. 
Shell perforated, perforation covered, globosely-depressed, rather solid, 
obliquely finely striated, whitish, adorned with a single chestnut-coloured 
band, and with many orange-coloured lines ; spire sub-elovated ; whorls 
51, rather convex, gradually increasing, the last convex beneath, 
descending anteriorly ; aperture very oblique, narrow, sub-triangularly 
lunar; peristome shortly expanded, within white-lipped, columellar 
margin straightisb, obscurely and obtusely unidentated. 
Diam., greatest, 15 ; least, 13; height, 10 mill. 
Hab., New Zealand. 
HELIX (DORCASIA) TARANAKI, Gray. 
Helix Taranaki , Gray, N.Z., pi. 1, figs. 6, 7 ; Pfr., M.H.Y., vol. 1, p. 378 ; 
vol., 5, p. 379, No. 2487. 
Shell umbilicated, depressed, rather solid, palo horny, rather shining, 
above closely striated with rib-like strife, at tho base smoother; spire a 
little elevated ; whorls 5, somewhat convex, the last broader, anteriorly 
slightly descending; umbilicSs moderate, pervious; aperture transversely 
Innately-oval; peristome thin, expanded, within shining white, basal 
margin rather straight, reflexed, columellar margin dilated, opened. 
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