1918.] The N.Z. Journal of Science and Technology. 103 
as the accompanying figure shows. Captain Bollons also has in his 
collection several small beach-worn specimens of Conus which he picked 
up at Cape Maria van Diemen. 
All the evidence seems to show that our coasts are occasionally visited 
by members of this genus, possibly brought here adhering to ships’ bottoms, 
or on floating logs, pumice, &c., which may be carried to these shores by 
Fig. 2 .—Ericusa sowerbyi Kiener, Evans Bay. 
winds and currents. Mr. Suter and Captain Bollons doubt their being 
true members of our New Zealand fauna. 
In Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. 9, 1910, p. 71, Mr. T. Iredale records finding 
C. vermiculatus Lamarck and C. minimus Linnaeus at the Kennadec 
Islands. 
It would be interesting to know if any members of this genus had been 
obtained anywhere else in New Zealand. 
Another genus which is usually well represented in collections of 
Australian and South Sea shells is Voluta. The shell is somewhat the shape 
