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Cominella eburnea (Reeve) {^costata Quoy & Gaimard). 
North Island: 19, some sps., h. 13. — 28, 1 sp., h. 15. 
Cominella quoyana (A. Adams) {=huttoni Kobelt). 
North Island: 5, 1 sh., h. 16.5 (with 10 costae). — 10, 2 sps., 
h. 20. — 11b, many sps., h. 20.5 (with 10—11 axial costae). 
Cominella lurida (Philippi). 
North Island: 7, 1 sp., h. 22. — 8, 1 sp., h. 26. 
Cominella adspevsa (B ru gniere) (=maculata Martyn). 
North Island: 7, 2 sps., h. 30. — 11a, 1 sp., h. 40. — 11b, 
4 sps., h. 40. — 28, 1 sp., h. 47. — South Island: 29, 2 sps., 
h. 55. — 30, 1 sp., h. 20. 
Cominella maculosa (Martyn). 
North Island: 15, 5 sps., h. 35. — 19, 7 sps., h. 29. — 28, 
2 sps., h. 29. 
Cominella nassoides (Reeve). 
South Island: 29, 1 sp., h. 22 (variety with turreted spire about 
1 1/2 times the aperture in height). — Stewart Island: 31, 7 sps., 
h. 49.5. 
Cominella virgata H. & A. Adams. 
North Island: 15, 1 sp., h. 23.5. — 19, 1 sp., h. 31. — Ste¬ 
wart Island: 31, 3 sps., h. 25. — Stewart Island, without definite 
locality, 20 fms, hard bottom, 16/11 1914, 1 sp., h. 35. 
Canthavus fuscozonatus Sut er. 
North Island: 17, 2 sps., h. 16. 
Prosipho chariessa (Sut er) {=Daphnella chariessa Sut er). 
(PI. I, fig. 25.) 
North Island: 16, 1 shell, h. 4.7. — I include the present 
species in the genus Prosipho Thiele 1912, on account of its 
fusiform shape and lack of a distinet sinus of the aperture, its 
strong spiral cords and the smooth protoconch which is limited in 
front by a straight line, in the present specimen further a little 
thickened to recall an indistinet varix; in front of that edge the 
