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(9.) Laoma (Phrixgnathus) phrynia, Hutton. 
Distribution.—This rather rare species has been found 
from Whangarei to the Seventy-mile Bush, in the North 
Island ; Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury, and Hooker Valley, 
in the South Island; and a variety on Stewart Island. 
(10.) Laoma (Phrixgnathus) allochroida, var. lateum- 
bilicata, Suter. 
Distribution.—A very minute form, living in mould in the 
bush, and hitherto only known from Auckland to the Forty- 
mile Bush, in the North Island ; also from Chicken Island. 
Fam. PATULIDA. 
(11.) Endodonta (Charopa) coma, Gray. 
Disiribution.—This is the only one of our land-shells that 
can be called common. It is found almost everywhere in the 
North Island, also on the Great Barrier Island. In the South 
Island it is, to my knowledge, not found south of the 44th 
degree of latitude; in the east, towards Banks Peninsula, it is 
replaced by Hndodonta pseudocoma, Sut. 
(12.) Endodonta (Charopa) colensoi, Suter. 
Distribution.—The type is from the Forty. mile Bush, and 
it has also been found near Auckland, and in Hawke’s Bay, 
Waipawa, and Manawatu. Unknown from the South Island. 
Thus it will be seen that most of the shells brought from 
Little Barrier Island are rather widely distributed in our 
colony. 
With regard to the distribution of the genera, I may just 
mention that HKhenea, comprising small carnivorous snails, 
occurs as far as Queensland, New Caledonia, and one species 
(R. gradata, Gould) on the Tonga Islands. Flammulina is. 
also found in Tasmania, Australia, Lord Howe Island, Nor- 
folk Island, New Caledonia, and the Carolines; and nearly 
allied to it are Amphidoxa and Stephanoda, from ‘South 
America, and Trachycystis, from South Africa. Once the 
anatomy of these genera is well known, they will most likely 
prove to form only one genus. Laoma, subgenus Phrixgna- 
thus, is also known from Tasmania and southern Australia, 
but Laoma (restricted) is only found in New Zealand. Tothe 
same family belongs the genus Pwnci:wm, which occurs in 
North America, Hurope, part of Asia, and northern Africa. 
Findodonta, a Polynesian genus, occurs also in Tasmania, 
Australia, New Caledonia, the Philippine Islands, and over the 
Polynesian islands as far as the Hawaiian and Society 
Islands. 
