PREFACE. 
The following List of the indiginous Land Snails of New 
Zealand is intended to supplement the Catalogue of the 
Marine Mollusca already issued by the Department. It is 
merely a collection of published descriptions by various 
authors, and for the greater part of the work the Department 
is indebted to the kind assistance of Dr. Cox and Mr. 
A. W. Scott, of Sydney, the latter gentleman having extracted 
and translated most of the descriptions from the following 
works, which could not be obtained in this Colony :— 
“Monograpliia Heliceorum Viventium,” Pfeiffer, 6 vols., 1868, 
Leipsic; and “ Monograpliia Pneumonoporum Viventium,” 
Pfeiffer, Vol. I., Supplements 1 and 2, 1865. 
JAMES HECTOR. 
Colonial Museum, 
25th October, 1873. 
