Art. XXII.—On the Land Mollusca of Little Barrier 
Island. 
By Henry Suter. 
[Read before the Auckland Institute, 7th October, 1901.) 
In the Christchurch Press of the 21st November, 1892, some 
notes on Little Barrier Island were published re the visits of 
Messrs. Henry Wright and Boscawen, of the Lands Depart- 
ment, the notes being probably quoted from the New Zea- 
land Herald. There occurs the following passage: ‘‘ He 
(Mr. Boscawen) also found the pupurangi, or New Zealand 
snail (Helix busbyi), which is about 4in. or din. long, and 
lays an egg like that of a bird.’’ It is curious that Mr. Shake- 
spear, the curator of Little Barrier Island, has never found 
this large snail, nor has Mr. Cheeseman, on his repeated visits 
to the island, come across it. Possibly Mr. Boscawen’s speci- 
men was “‘the last of the Mohicans.” Be this as it may, the 
fact remains that up to the end of the last century nothing 
else was known about the land molluscan fauna of Little 
Barrier Island. 
In January last Mr. J. Adams, of the Thames, was paying — 
a visit to the island, and, knowing him to be a very good 
collector of land-shells, I asked him to have a good look out 
for these mostly minute and inconspicuous creatures. On Mr. 
Adams’s return he kindly handed over to me the harvest of 
his collecting, which enables me now to publish the first list 
of land-shells from this our native reserve. To Mr. Adams I 
wish to express my gratitude for the great trouble he has 
taken to get this nice and interesting collection together. No ~ 
new species were amongst these shells, which belong to four 
genera and represent twelve species. There is little doubt but 
that further collecting will produce many additions to the list. 
Fam. RHYTIDIDA. 
(1.) Rhenea coresia, Gray. 
Distribution.—North Island only, but more common in 
the northern part of it. It is not uncommon in the bush 
near Auckland, and occurs also on Chicken Island. 
