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CONTENTS

FISHES OF THE GENUS TRIPTERYGION AND RELATED : ; GENERA IN NEW ZEALAND, EpGAR R. WAITE ... 9 1

RESULTS OF AN EXAMINATION OF SOME DRAWINGS OF NEW ZEALAND FISHES, EDGAR R. WAITE Ver

A SUPPOSED OCCURRENCE OF THE BOTTLE-NOSED, WHALE (Hyperoodon) IN NEW ZEALAND, EDGAR R. WAITE a vg epee ets a ean eee

A List OF THE TERTIARY MOLLUSCA IN THE CANTER- — BURY MUSEUM, R. SPEIGHT oo a ee

DESCRIPTIONS OF Two NEW MARINE SHELLS FROM ~ NEW ZEALAND, HENRY SUTER, ... se.

Plates I. to VIII. and text figures.

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VOLUME II.

No. 1 (IssUED 23RD DECEMBER, 1913). PAGE Fishes of the Genus Tripterygion and Related Genera in New Zealand Edgar R. Waite Results of the Examination of some Drawings of New Zealand Fishes

Edgar R. Waite .. 17 A supposed occurrence of the Bottle-nosed Whale (Hyperododn) in New Zealand a Be a wm Edgar R. Waite .. 23 A List of the Tertiary Mollusca in the Canterbury Museum R. Speight Rye eh Descriptions of Two New Marine Shells from New Zealand Henry Suter Sr eis

Nios 2 (IssuED 12TH JUNE, 1922). The Habitat and Life History of Liopelma hochstettert

Gilbert Archey oe OD Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda .. uc Gilbert- Archey one 7S The Rhyolites of Banks Peninsula a R. Speight sco MMU Note on the Origin and State of the Herbarium Arnold Wall ea MER No. 3 (IssuED 13rH DECEMBER, 1923). Archeology of Canterbury—Moabone Point Cave H.D. Skinner... 93

Raoulia mammillavis Hook f. af Ns Arnold Wall .. 105 Notes on the Types of Two Tipulidae (Diptera) in the Canterbury Museum Charles P. Alexander 111 A new Genus of Chilopoda from British Guiana and a new species of Wailamyctes from Auckland Island a Gilbert Archey oie ol: Notes on the Birds of the Sub-Antarctic Islands of New Zealand Gilbert Archey oa LZ

The Intrusive Rocks of Banks Peninsula —-. R. Speight Biya No. 4 (IssuED 4TH DECEMBER, 1924). Archeology of Canterbury 11.—Monck’s Cave H. D. Skinner Sebi

The Crane-Flies of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand (Tipulidae, Diptera) Charles P. Alexander 163 The Hemiptera of the Chatham Islands ve J. G. Myers so Jz Notes on the Birds of the Chatham Islands Gilbert Archey, assisted by Charles Lindsay 187 The Genus Cryptops (Chilopoda) in New Zealand Gilbert Archey 2. 203

New Zealand Dixidae (Dipt.) : A. L. Tonnoir peal Haastia Greenii Hook f.; Whatisit ? ts Arnold Wall .» 2395 The Basic Volcanic Rocks of Banks Peninsula R. Speight ey ahs) No. 5 (IssuED 26TH NOVEMBER, 1925). Lepidoptera of the Chatham Islands 5 I. Meyrick =e 209 Caddis-Flies (Order Trichoptera) of the Chatham Islands R. J. Tillyard ee DHT Coleoptera of the Chatham Islands 5 Albert E. Brookes .. 285 Spiders of the Chatham Islands .. : Lucien Berland .. 295

Orthoptera and Dermaptera from the Chatham Islands Averil M. Lysaght.. 301

New Zealand Dixidae 0 Se st A. L. Tonnoir Be aco New Zealand Pipunculidae a€ fe A. L. Tonnoir Pails Some Amphipoda and Isopoda from the Chatham Islands

Chas. Chilton Spos A New Genus of Isopoda (Family Sphaeromidae) Chas, Chilton 3 Al

Notes on Some Pebbles in New Zealand Coals R. Speight .. 32/7

INDEX

PAGE Aclis 35 Acteon 44 Adeixis griseata 272 Admete 39 Agrotis ypsilon 270 Akaroa, Volcanic Rocks 259 Alcira 39 Aldonus chathamensis 292 % hylobioides 292 v lineifer 292 ao, misturatus 292 Alectrion .. 38 Amphibola 45 Amphineurus hudsoni WAY Amphipods of the Chatham Is. 317 Ampullina a Se Anachis 39 Anas superciliosa 197 Ancilla : . 40 Andesites of Banks Seamnsala 242 Anisolabis littorea 309 Anisops wakefieldi .. 174 Anomia 46 Anthornis melanocephala 200 Pe melanura Bw) Anthus novaeseelandiae 200 Aptenodytes patagonica 120 Aradus australis 175 Araneus pustulosus 298 Arca o5 46 Archeology of Candee pin: y 93 Rise vats tol,

Pls. xxiii. to xxxXil. Archyala terranea 275 Argosarchus spiniger 308 Ariathisa comma 270 Astarte 50 Astrea 30 Atrina 50 Aturia 35 Auchenopterus aysoni ee Austranthus novaeseelandiae 117 Bactra xystrota ? 273 Banks Peninsula— Basic Rocks 239 7 - Intrusive ,, 121 Rhyolites 77 Basalts of Banks Peninsula 144, 148 Bathytoma 42 Belemnites a OD Birds of the Chatham Islands 187 Sub-Antarctic ,, Wily

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Borkhausenia pseudospretella 274 Borsonia 43 Botaurus peeciloptilus 197 Bottle-nosed Whale 23 Bowdleria punctata 117 47 rufescens 199 Cabalus modestus .. 195 Caddis-flies of the Chatham Is. 277 Callistoma 30 Calyptrea 32 Cambridgea anti podiana 298 Cardita 51 Cardium 53 Casarca variegata 197 Catharacta lonnbergi 194 Ceratognathus helotoides 291 Chama 55 Chamostrea : 55 Charadrius bicinctus 195 Chathamia n. gen.—(Figs.) 279 Chathamia brevipennis (Figs.) 280 Chilopoda from British Guiana 113 Pl scx ¥ of New Zealand 73 Pixie Chione 52 Chlidonias albistriata 193 Chloroclystis semialbata 270 Cicadula awae n. sp. « PLS, Pl. xxxiil. Cilibe saragoides 289 ,, subcostatus 290 Circus approximans 197 Clathurella 43 Clavatula .. d 42 Coccinella 11 punctata . 289 Coleoptera of the Chatham Is. 285 Coenocorypha aucklandica 118 Cologrammuus flavescens 15 Cominella 37 Conus 45 Corbula 34 Crambus horistes 272 a ramosellts DAY fie seriellus 272 vittellus 272 Crane-flies of Chatham Islands 163 Crassatellites 30 Creophilus oculatus 286 Crepidula .. bd. 32 Cristiceps australis .. 11

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Cryptops in New Zealand

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Pls. xxxiv. to XxXxXvil.

Cryptops arapuni n. sp. 75, 210 BS australis 2S Plssexccviie ni dilagus s..1Z16 PP SsScvii: A lamprethus Bae E Pi aeexvi. A megalopora uP20s Pi sscaive sf polyodontus 214 Pisses a spinipes Sr) al JEAle sicrerg hie - tokatea n. sp. eau Bia xaate Cubaris canaliculatus 319 Cucullza 46 Cyanorhamphus auriceps 198

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“e unicolor 118 Cylichnella 43 Cymatium 34 Cyprea 33 Cytherea 33 Daphnella 42 Dentalium bie AD Diagrypnodes wa kefieldi . 289 Dicranomya archeyi n. sp. 164

conveniens 167

x gracilis 167

= lindsayi n. sp. 166

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nebulifera—(Fig.) 165

Diomedia epomorphora 118, 191

an exulans 118

melanophrys 19]

Diplodonta 51

Discobola chathamica n. sp. 147

Divaricella : 51

Dixa campbelli 224, 231 IP IsShiscxcxavaiie yal!

,, fuscinervis n. sp. 229, 233 IPG eo'o.cb oll,

PEeharstmesps, 5. stato Pl. xliv.

» meozelandican.sp. 228, 232 Pisiecxcnvanes ale

, Otagensis me225 Blade

» philpottin. sp. aad BiSssexviilt

,, septentrionalis n. sp. 226 Pl. xxxvili.

Dixella n. gen. 230

a minuta n. sp. 230

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INDEX

v. PAG} Dixidae of New Zealand Per Pls. xxxviil. to xl. Dosinia 53 Drillia ; 4] Echinorhinus brucus 17 Eglisia 31 Epretta alba 197 Emarginula 44 Enarsus bakewelli 289 Epitonium 34 Ericentrus rubrus aye t lcs: 12th Aye Ethalia te 29 Eudyptes cristatus .. re) PAD) A pachyrhynchus 119, 188 yt sclateri 120 Eudyptula minor 187 Eulima 35 Eulimella .. 35 Euthria ss 37 Exosphaeroma gigas 318 Fishes of N.Z., drawings of 17 Fissuridea.. a8 21 44 Frog N.Z. (Liopelma _ hoch- stetteri ante 40 G8) Bissix torxiis Fulguraria 40) Fusinus 35 Gabbro of Banks Peninsula 124 Galeodea 34 Gallinago pusilla 194 Gallirallus australis .. S195 Gammaroparnops . 302 Gammaroparnops crassicruris 303 (Fig.) Garrodia nereis Sol ltsre: Gasteroschisma melampus 19 Gempylus serpens 20 Genota 42 Germo germon 19 Gerygone albofrontata 199 Glycymeris 47 Gynoplistia chathamica 169 Haastia greenii : 21239 Hamatopus ostralegus . 194 Hectacma decorandan.sp. .. 274 Hemicardium 54 Hemiconus 45 Hemiphaga chathamensis 7/96 Hemiptera of the Chatham Is. 171 Pl. xxxiii. Herbarium, origin and stateof 9] Hydromena deltoidata 27) 5 haemophean.sp. 270 a similata e270 subochraria 270 Hydrobiosis lindsayi n. sp. QT

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PAGE Hyperoédon planifrons LLIB 2S Pls. vii., viil. Hypoleucus campbelli SARS Iais pubescens 319 Intrusive Rocks of Banks Pen- insula... at ie Isocladus armatus .. - 3s Isopoda of the Chatham Is. .. 318 Ixeuticus chathamensis 412296 P). xl. Kartops n. gen. a1! Fe ke be) ¥ guianae nN. sp. > ia Pl. scat Lamyctes chathamensis San iy Lamprococcyx lucidus Los Lapparia .. vs tect O Larus bulleri of a) Os. , dominicanus eS, ,, novae-hollandiae sia) ICR} Batinisms. - a ai. | 36 Leda ae me et tO Leperina shandi i 289 Lepidoptera of the C hatham Is. 269 Leptomeris rubraria = eee Leptomya ss eetos Lima e. 3 ae 9 Limnophila oliveri .. > e169 Limopsis .. af Sere, Limosa lapponica .. eos Linyphia antipodiana n.sp. .. 296

Pl. xiii. Liopelma hochstetteri, habitat

and life history .. ace ats, PISMise tors: Lissospira ae scat eet Lissotes capito ae sO » dispar eee 221290 oripes |<: = eMol Lutraria .. * ieina2 Luvarus imperialis .. sep20 P]. vi. Lycosa Maunganuiensisn.sp. 298 Pieced: Lyttelton, Volcanic rocks of .. 242 Maccrocallista au 230 403 Macronectes giganteus =) 190 Mactra .. se SE Ge Maera mastersil a SH SL7 Malletia .. ie Ji A6 Mangilia .. $3 Soups PZ Marginella We Dew Mecastrus convexus #2289 Mecyna marmarina es h273 ,, pantheropa me eS Melampsalta cruentata <2 ZG Melanchra bromias .. ne STAD Melita inaequistylis. . PLoLy Meretrix .. ae =e POS

PAGE Microcarbo brevirostris 191 Miro traversri 199 Mitophyllus reflexus _ 291 Mitra 36 Mitrella 39 Moa-Bone Point Cae 93 Pls. xvii. to xx. Moa-fiunters’ Beds 95 Moa Species hunted by Maoris 161 Modiolus mn, Molophilus sp. 170 Monck’s Cave - 153 Pls. xxii. to scx Monopis ethelella 274 , typhlopan.sp. 274 Murex ‘ eee 38 Musotina nitidalis iis: Myiomoira pean ee 117, 198 Mydora : 2! OD Mytilus 47 Natica 33 Neodixa 311 Neolepton a1 Nesolimnas dieften bachii 195 Nesomiro dannefaerdi oF Nesonetta aucklandica 118 Notoclinus fenestratus ats 9 Ploive Nucula 46 Nyctemera annulata 270 Ny mphula nitens 273 Nysius huttoni 174 Odontria zealandica 290 Odostomia 35 Oecetis chathamensis Nn. SP. ge eeee (Fig.) Olivella she 1 RAED Orchestia Giaieuiee 318 rs tucurauna 318 Orthoea nigriceps .. 174 Orthoptera of the Chatham Is. 301 Ostrea - . 449 Pachyptila turtur 189 y vittata .. 190 Panopea 54 Paphia 53 Paralamyctes Pare - aS Plt sain. Paramcera austrina < RED Paravireia n. gen. 321 Pg. xiv. to seal Bs affinities of 324 typicus n. sp. 319, 322 Parorchestia sylvicola 318 ; tenuis 318 Pecten 48 Pelagodroma asa 189 Pelecanoides urinatrix 190

PAGE Pentidotea lacustris nS ea sd ES) Perna is Heo, Persectania composita a3) 240 propria 5 PATA) Phalium ts ne) PO4 Phalacrocorax brevirostris Siete EI o carbo 56 MI carunculatus .. 192 Phalloniscus punctatus a OLO Philaenus trimaculatus se IAS Pl. xxxni. Philoscia sp. a Be eval) Philobrya ae rodeae 7) Pheloneis sp. a 1275290 Pholadomya ae 53) 55 Phos ae So, seis: Phrissogonus denotatus oe TAl) Pipunculidae of New Zealand 313 P]. xliv. _ arthurianus n. sp. 315 ee ceansima sp. 2 BOLD Pe caErISiMe sp: 315 , novaezelandiae n. sp. 314 Placunanomia we Teo AG Plagiogeneion rubiginosus Platyptilia aeolodes en ek) Platypus apicalis .. Boe 29S Pleioplectron serratum—(Fig.) 306 Pleurotomaria ae 4. 144 Polinices .. ac. ao Polymoria marshalli_ ee Poroleda .. 3: 46 Porphyrio melanotus. LOG Porzana affinis ss a= 196 ,, plumbea .. 196 Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae 200 Protocardium ae 3 Od Psammobia a -. o4 Psepholax sulcatus .. ne Aes 121-4 bie Pterodroma cookii .. 56) tse, Puffinus griseus ae ==) L89 Pupa spe .. 44 Pycnomerus mediocris So sh Quedius antipodus Sor asks ee etulsidus) © 5- 2. 286 Raoulia mammillaris 50 1K) 1PAlee. 6-018 Rhipidura flabellifera so LURE) Rhopalimorpha ignota so Hee obscura 5 Ze

Rhy olites of Banks Peninsula 77 Pls. xiv. to xvi.

Ringicula .. S50 .. 44 Risella oY Ae ae 44. Rissoa ts ae: ey 230) Rissoina .. me he 230 Scissurella , . Be We, Pe!

vii. PAGE Schizoribautia brittinin.sp... 73 Pisin. Scoparia indistinctalis 9273 leptalea HN273 minusculalis hin) ATI) philerga 273 sabulosella eB: Serpulorbis ASI Selidosema ombrodes eral 4 Sessinia lineata 287 Sestra flexata : See Ah? Shells, two new Marine GEIN- Es) On Siphonalia 36 Siphonaria Spill Siphonium planatum—(Fig.) Fey! Soletellina . 54 Spiders of the Chatham Is. 295 Spisula é 52 Staphylinus sp. 286 Stenopelmatidae of the C hat- ham. Islands oul Sterna striata 193 Stictocarbo featherstoni 192 Struthiolaria 31 Subemarginula 44 Surcula : ~ s» Al Syenites of Banks Peninsula .. 124 Talorchestia tumida 318 Tellina a2 Terebra 43 Teredo 5s 54 Tetrangatha nitens .. 297 Tertiary Mollusca, two new 57 Thais : a 39 Thelyphassa chathamensis n. sp. 287 Pe ae Therasia 45 Thinornis novaeseelandiae 195 Thoramus laevithorax ae Asis: Piseedae dig Thracia : 55 Tinea mysticopa 275 Tinemyia margaritifera 111 Tipulidae in Cant. Museum 111 Tornatina ae 43 Tortrix excessana 273 Trachytes of Banks Peninsula 129, 146 Trichoniscus otakensis 319 Trichophaga tapetiella . 274 Tripterygion and related genera in New Zealand 1 Tripterygion medium ef PI. ii. 4 tripenne 3

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Tripterygion varium coh pale Pleas

Trivia = ad Se: (acne Trochus .. aye kee Trophon .. 38 Trophon virginalis n. 1. Sp. (Fig. ) 58 Turbo ae = | ae Turbonilla bss waters: Turris = ste =. 3 34 geal Turritella .. xs Fea {| Typhis ve oe mares Urodynamis taitensis elo Vaginella i ba pe te Vanessa gonerilla .. ps, core Venericardia ay 3 Ow Vexillum .. ave epee S

INDEX

PAGE Volutospina ove bd SO Volvulella .. 43 Wailamyctes from Auckland Is. 115 Wailamyctes munroin.sp. .. 115 Xantholinus punctulatus .. 286 Xanthorhoe chlorocapnan.sp. 271 homalocyma =, Ba a venipunctata .. 271 Xuthodes divergens pew ,, punctipennis 95, OZ Zelanophilus kapiti n. sp. Be es: P]. xiii. Zenatia .. vib yb Zonioploca brunni .. .. 308 Zosterops lateralis .. .. 200

Fisne> of the GENUS TRIPTERYGION and RELATED GENERA in NEW ZEALAND

By Epe@ar R. Waite, F.L.S., Curator.

Plates I.—V.

With a view to arriving at a better knowledge of the New Zealand species of the Blennioid genus T'ripterygion, 1 have collected specimens of this and other genera from various localities, chiefly from rock pools, worked at low tide. Toll was taken from the following districts, namely :—Kaikoura, Lyttelton (Sumner and Taylor’s Mistake), Akaroa, Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands, and the Snares. Mr. Henry Suter sent me specimens from Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, and I have examined the few examples which the Museum furnished.

T have not yet seen specimens from Westland, whence Clarke obtained the material upon which he founded his three nominal species. With the possible exception of 7’. dorsale, which I have associated with 7’. medium, there can be no doubt that they are correctly ascribed to the species under which name they respectively stand in the following pages.

Ten nominal species have appeared in our literature, but in 1904 Hutton! accepted only seven of these as valid, namely :— “T. tripinne Forster, T. decemdigitatum Clarke, T. medium Giinther, 7. dorsale Clarke, 7. varium Forster, T. nigripenne Cuvier and Valenciennes, and 7. robustwm Clarke.’’ I find that all specimens seen by me may be referred to one of three species, namely, 7. tripenne, T. medium, and T. varium, all of which are well characterised by structural details. The colouration of the last-named is, however, so diversified that it is only by examina- tion of a large series that a just idea can be formed; for example, specimens from the Chatham Islands have quite a

(1) Hutton, Index Faune Nove Zealandiz, 1904, p. 46.

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different colour scheme from those of our South Island shores, yet, apart from this colour character, no difference can be observed.

I had hoped to study the whole of our fishes of the family Blenniidw, but have hitherto been unable to obtain specimens of some forms, and an appeal to Mr. Hamilton,? Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, where the types of Sticharium rubrum and Auchenopterus aysoni, were believed to be, reveals: the fact that they are now non-existent. While, therefore, dealing with the members of the genera Tripterygion, Notoclinus, and Fricentrus at some length I have had to be content, for the present, with a mere notice of Auchenopterus and Cologrammus as culled from the original descriptions and figures, which are, however, not wholly satisfactory.

Key to the Genera.

a. Three dorsal fins.

b. Spines of the first dorsal increase in height backwards, Second dorsal longer than the third

Tripterygion bb. Spines of the first dorsal decrease in height backwards, Second dorsal shorter than the third Notoclinus aa. Two dorsal fins. ce. First dorsal higher than anterior spines of second dorsal, caudal pedunculate. d. Dorsal with 3 to 8 rays posteriorly Cristiceps

(2) Mr. Hamilton died at Russell, Bay of Islands, 12th Oct., 1913. Widely known as a prolific writer on the Maori and his art, Mr. Hamilton also wrote on biological subjects, including fishes, his best known con- tribution to the subject being: ‘‘List of papers on New Zealand Fishes and Fishing’’ (T.N.Z.L., xxxiv. 1902, pp. 539-548).

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dd. Dorsals composed of spines only or with but a single soft ray Auchenopterus

ee. Dorsals of uniform height with only a single soft ray, caudal not pedunculate Ericentrus

aaa. One dorsal fin. e. Dorsal with six soft rays Cologrammus

TRIPTERYGION Risso, 1826.

Body robust, covered with ciliate scales of moderate size; lateral line incomplete or interrupted. Head naked. Dorsal fin of three distinct portions, which may be connected at their bases, the first ascendant of 3 to 6 spines, the spines of the second fin more numerous than the rays of the third. Anal fin longer than the second dorsal. Pectoral fin long, the lower rays simple and thickened. Ventrals jugular. Caudal rounded.

a. Head pointed, lateral line extends to below the third dorsal

tripenne aa. Head rounded, lateral line terminates under the second dorsal. b. First dorsal of four spines, the lateral line falls to the mid line of the body medium bb. First dorsal of five or six spines, the lateral line follows the dorsal contour varium

TRIPTERGION TRIPENNE Forster.

Blennius tripennis Forster, in Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 174, and Descr. Anim. 1844, p. 125.

Tripterygion forsteri Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. mI., E8386, p. 415.

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Tripterygium forsteri Ginther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii., 1861, p. 278.

Trypterygium forstert Hutton, Cat. Fish. N.Z. 1872, p. 31. Trypterygium tripennis Hutton, T.N.Z.1. ix. 1877, p. 354.

Trypterigium decemdigitatus Clarke, T.N.Z.1. xi., 1879, p. 292. pl. xv.

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B. vi.; D. ii. xix. 14; A. 27; V. 2;P. 11; C) toe Db. Jat. 34; Li. tr. 8 4- 16.

Length of head 3-95; height of body 4-46 and length of caudal 4-65 in the length; diameter of eye 4-0; length of snout 3-45, and interorbital space 6-6 in the length of the head.

The head is sub-acute, nearly flat above, the profile of the snout very low, interorbital space flat, eyes close together directed obliquely upwards and cutting the upper profile, a comb-like tentacle with ten teeth above the hinder angle of the orbit; jaws equal; the maxilla extends to beneath the first third of the eye. The posterior nostril is close to the upper angle of the eye and the anterior one is midway between it and the upper lip, it has a tentacle with four branches.

Tceth—A very broad band of teeth in the jaws, teeth also on the vomer and palatines; a broad frenum behind the upper teeth.

Fins.—The first spine arises over the edge of the preopercle, the others are progressively higher, the third being equal to the length of the snout and eye together; the second fin begins behind the root of the pectoral, and the third midway between the head and the end of the caudal; the highest rays of these fins are sub-equal, and are as high as the body at the insertion of the third fin. The anal commences beneath the eighth spine of the second dorsal and terminates evenly with the last ray. The pectoral is evenly pointed, the tips of its lower rays being free. The ventrals arise close together and the inner ray is the longer. equal to the post-nasal length of the head. The caudal is well rounded and its peduncle is deep, equal to one-half the height of the body.

Scales——Head, and space in front of the ventrals naked, the whole body, including a narrow space in front of the dorsal fin and the base of the pectoral, clothed with large finely ciliated scales, those on the back, chest, and belly very small. The lateral

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line commences at the opercular angle, rises very slightly over the pectoral, and follows the dorsal profile to below the fifth last dorsal ray, the thirty-four scales thus embraced are tubular, two series of scales below, the line is continued along about six non-tubular seales to the caudal.

Colours—Head and body deep blue black, scarcely lighter beneath, but brown on the chest, ventrals pale grey; all the other fins black; the anal edged with grey.

Length.—96 mm.

Hab.—Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, Otago, Dusky Sound, West Coast, 8.1.

Distinguishing features of 7. tripenne are the low pointed head, the high fins, of which the first dorsal is formed of three spines only, the multifid tentacle over the eye, the long latéral line, following the dorsal contour, and the dark and, generally, uniform colouration.

The description is drawn up from one of two specimens sent to me by Mr. H. Suter, from Hauraki Gulf. They do not exhibit trace of the spot at the base of the pectoral, described by Forster, but a series of specimens would no doubt show many variations in colour and markings.

TRIPTERYGION MEDIUM Giinther.

Tripterygium medium Ginther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. iii., 1861, p. 278.

Trypterygium medium Hutton, Cat. Fish NZ. 1872.32:

Trypterigvuum dorsalis Clarke, T.N.Z.I. xi. 1879, p. 291, pl. xv.

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B..vi.; D. iv. xvii. 12; A. 22; P. 15: V. 2; C. 12 + 2; Se. 61; Meatat 2 Ltr. 10 + 7.

Length of head 3-45; height of body 4-15, and length of caudal 4-0 in the length; diameter of eye 5:1; length of snout 4-0, and interorbital space 6-8 in the length of the head.

The head is nearly flat above, the profile of the snout very steep, eyes close together directed obliquely upwards, inter- orbital space slightly concave; upper jaw slightly the longer: the maxillary reaches to nearly below the middle of the eye; posterior nostril immediately in front of the middle of the eye,

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anterior nostril midway between it and the upper edge of the lip, it is furnished with a bifid tentacle; no tentacle over the eye.

Teeth.—A single series of sharp teeth in the jaws followed by a band of minute teeth, a broad frenum behind the upper teeth.

Fins.—The first spine, whose length is equal to the diameter of the eye, arises over the edge of the preopercle, the others rise regularly to the fourth. which is twice the height of the first. The second fin begins behind the root of the pectoral and the third midway between the head and the end of the caudal; though higher than the first, the second and third fin rays are comparatively low, the highest rays being less than the body at the origin of the third dorsal. The anal commences beneath the ninth spine of the second dorsal and terminates posteriorly to the last dorsal ray. The pectoral is rounded, the tips of its lower rays being free. The inner ray of the ventral is the longer, its length being equal to the distance between the anterior nostril and the opercular margin. The caudal is rounded and the peduncle narrow, its height being less than one-third that of the body.

Scales Head, throat, chest and a space on each side of the spinous dorsals and of the anal fin naked; the scales are small and finely ciliated. The lateral line arises well above the origin of the pectoral, and passes downwards with the concavity above, to the mid-line of the body, terminating below the base of the fifth last spine of the second dorsal fin; about two scales exceeding the reach of the pectoral. The lateral line is very pronounced, and in some specimens may be continued to the caudal. 7

Colours—Reddish brown above and grey beneath, head brown with irregular darker blotches; body with six black blotches across the back, one at the commencement of each of the three fins, one below the middle of the second and third fins respectively, and one on the caudal peduncle; a zigzag runs along the mid line of the body, a blue spot in each lower wave; upper half of first dorsal black, about five rows of dark spots on the second and third fins, pectoral with seven and caudal with ten bars, anal grey barred and tipped with white, ventrals white.

Length.—85 -2 mm.

Hab.—Great Barrier Is., Wellington, Kaikoura, Lyttelton, Hokitika.

This species may be readily detected by the contour of the

lateral line, which is concave above, by the absence of an orbital tentacle, and by the body markings. The spines of the first

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dorsal fin appear to be constantly four in number,* but other variations are indicated below :—

D. iv. xv.-xvii. 11-13. A. 20-25.

T. dorsale Clarke, from Hokitika, on the west coast of the South Island, differs from typical examples only by the cireum- stance that the lateral line extends to the base of the caudal rays, and I have a specimen from Canterbury which exhibits this feature. The author describes the nostril as being single, very minute, and close below the eye. The eastern specimen has the usual double nostril, as shown in the drawing, and the ventral rays are neither short nor extremely fleshy as described and figured by Clarke. The difference in comparative dimensions may be explained by the fact that the author included the caudal in computing the relative lengths of the fish:

The illustrations which accompany the late Mr. F. E. Clarke’s papers are not very satisfactory, and would lead one to think that the originals were crude. I have recently had the oppor- tunity of examining some of these, and in justice to Mr. Clarke’s memory I should like to say that they were very carefully prepared, and quite satisfactory as originals, but were evidently executed without a knowledge of the limitations of the reproduc- tive process, at any rate as exemplified by the workers responsible for those particular reproductions.

TRIPTERYGION VARIUM Forster.

Blennius varius Forster, in Bloch and Schneider, Syst. TIehth. 1801, p. 178, and Descr. Anim. 1844, p. 127.

Tripterygion varium Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xi. 1836, p. 414. Waite, Pisces, Sub-ant. Is. N.Z., 11. 1909, L597:

Tripterygion nigripenne Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit. p. 413, pl. ecexxxix.

Tripterygion capito Jenyns, Fishes Voy. ‘‘Beagle,’’ 1841, p. 94; piso, fig: 1:

Tripterygium varium Giimther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. i. 1861. p. 277. Hutton, Cat. Fish. N.Z. 1872, p. 33.

(8) Gunther writes:—‘‘D. 4(5)’* I have examined a large number of specimens but in none found five spines.

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Tripterygium nigripinne Giinther, loc. cit., p. 277. Hutton, loc. cit. p. 31, and T.N.Z.I. v. 1873, p. 263, and ix. 1877, p. 354.

Trypterygium forsteri Hutton, T.N.Z.1. v. 1873, p. 263. Tryterygium fenestratum Hutton, T.N.Z.I. v. 1873, p. 263. Trypterigium robustum Clarke, T.N.Z.I. xi. 1879, p. 292, pl. xv. Tripterygium jenningst Hutton, T.N.Z.1. xi. 1879, p. 339.

Plate IIT.

B. vi. ;-D. v.-vi., am 12% A. 25; P.AT; V. 23 C. 11... Eee L. tr. 8 + 16.

Length of head 3-9, height of body 4-0, and length of caudal 4-6 in the length’ diameter of eye 3-8, and interorbital space 8 -0 in the head.

The head is flat above with the profile of the snout very steep, interorbital space flat, eyes not close together, directed outwards, the orbits free from the upper profile; jaws equal, the maxilla extends to nearly below the middle of the eye. Posterior nostril in front of the upper angle of the eye, the anterior one midway between it and the upper lip, with a simple tentacle; a bifid tentacle over each eye.

Teeth.—The teeth are pointed, in a single series in each Jaw, followed by a broad band; similar teeth on the palatines and vomer: a frenum behind the upper teeth.

Fins.—The first dorsal fin commences over the edge of the preopercle, the second behind the root of the pectoral, and the third at a point much nearer the end of the caudal than the opercular border; the first spine is a little longer than the diameter of the eye, the following rise regularly to the fifth (or sixth) which is one half longer than the first; the highest spines of the second fin are one-half higher than the fifth (or sixth) spine and the anterior rays of the third fin are still higher. The anal arises below the seventh spine of the second dorsal and its rays terminate evenly with those of the third dorsal. The pectoral is evenly pointed and extends to a point equal to its distance from the head. The ventrals are rather short, the inner or longest ray being equal to the length of the head, less the snout. The caudal is rounded and its peduncle rather low, its height rather more than half that of the body at the insertion of the third dorsal fin.

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Scales —Head, to the commencement of the dorsal fin, throat and chest naked, the rest of the body clothed with small finely ciliated seales. The lateral line follows the curve of the back, terminating under the fourth last ray of the second dorsal fin, about seven scales exceeding the reach of the pectoral. Two scales below, it is continued to the caudal.

Colours.—Ground colour variable, Green, olive, brown, orange, or reddish with dark markings, six more or less ring-like figures above the lateral line, fins black, grey, or red, edge of first dorsal black, second and third dorsals with markings at the base to correspond with the rings on the body, anal with a dark sub-marginal band; caudal sometimes spotted. One specimen collected at the Chatham Islands has a wholly black head and a dark line along each side of the spinous dorsal fins.

Length.—85 mm.

Hab.—Wellington, Kaikoura, Lyttelton, Akaroa, Jackson’s Bay, Westland, Chatham and Auckland Islands, and the Snares.

T. varium may be distinguished by the larger number of spines, (v.-vi.) in the first dorsal fin, by the bifid tentacle over the eye, and the course of the lateral line, which follows the dorsal contour to near the termination of the second fin.

This is quite the commonest of the three species, at least, on the east coast of the South Island, and is the subject of the greatest number of synonyms.

NOTOCLINUS Gill, 1893.

Differs from Tripterygion in having the spines of the first

_ dorsal fin descendant, and the second fin not longer than the \ third. Pectoral rays less numerous and wholly undivided.

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\ NOTOCLINUS FENESTRATUS Forster.

\Blennius fenestratus Forster, in Bloch and Schneider Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 173, and Descript. Anim. 1844, p. 124.

Iripterygion fenestratum Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. \ Pos: x1. 1836; p. 416. Tipterygium fenestratum Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii. Lieolap. cio. Idutton, ©N-Z WL. ix. 1877, p. 354: Tryoterygium compressum Hutton, Cat. Fish. N.Z. 1872, p. 32, bod TNA ey. 1873, p 263, pl. xv. _Arthur T.NZ.¥. xvin. 1885, p. 168, pl. xiv., fig. 6.

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Auchenopterus compressus Hutton, T.N.Z.I. viii. 1876, p. 214. Auchenopterus fenestratus Hutton, T.N.Z.I. xxii. 1890, p. 281.

Notoclinus fenestratus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vi. 1893, pp. 119, 124.

Plate IV.

D., iv. x1. 13; A. 24; V_. 2; P. 11; C. 11; Se 43> eee 16 + 29; L. tr. 20.

Length of head 3-18; height of body 4:32; and length of caudal 3-27 in the length; diameter of eye 4-75; length of snout 3°45 and interorbital space 8-4 in the length of the head.

The head is obtuse with a low profile, eyes well separated, lateral, a spoon-like tentacle over the hinder angle of the orbit and a smaller one at the anterior nostril, interorbital space slightly convex, jaws equal, mouth large, the maxillary extending to beyond the hinder edge of the eye, gills four, a slit behind the fourth. Posterior nostril close to the front edge of the eye, the anterior nostril a short distance in advance of it. Body, robust, compressed.

Teeth—A broad band in each jaw and at the head of the vomer, teeth present also on the palatines.

Fins.—The first dorsal fin stands wholly apart from the second, and its anterior spine is placed immediately behind the eye, it is very long being nearly equal to the depth of the head; the following spines rapidly decrease to the fourth, which is not longer than the diameter of the eye; the second fin commences behind the opercular edge and its base is equal to that of the soft dorsal, which originates midway between the opercle and the base of the caudal rays. The anal arises beneath the fifth spine of the second dorsal and is coterminal with the soft fin. The pectoral rays are comparatively few in number and all are simple. The inner ventral ray is equal to half the length of the head. The caudal is large and rounded and its peduncle is equal to its length behind the anal fin.

Colour.—In preservative the general colour is orange,’ the head is mottled with grey and brown and has two dark bars above in sequence with those on the body. The body is adorned wth

(4) Prof. Benham tells me that specimens kept in aquaria at the Portobello fish hatchery are reddish-orange in colour, so that no sreat change takes place under preservation as in Cristiceps and Ericettrus, which in life are of greenish hues.

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seven oblique bars, inclined backwards below, all the bars are more or less incomplete below, and the two posterior ones are broken up. Three bars originate each beneath the second and third dorsal fins and the seventh is on the caudal peduncle. The fins are grey, those of the dorsal having clear spaces in the membrane, there are three faint bars on the caudal rays.

Length.—121 mm. Hab.— Otago.

CRISTICEPS Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836.

Body moderately elongate, covered with small or rudi- mentary scales. Two dorsal fins, the first of three descendant spines the second long with a small number (3-8) of posterior soft rays. Lateral line complete, strongly curved anteriorly. Caudal pedunculate.

CRISTICEPS AUSTRALIS Cuvier and Valenciennes.

Cristiceps australis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xi., 1836, p. 402, pl. ecexxxvi. Hutton, T.N.Z.I. v., 1873, p. 264.

Cristiceps macleayr Castlenau P.L.S., N.S.W. i. 1879, p. 385.

Cristiceps howitti Castelnau P.Z.S., Vict. 11. 1873, p. 48.

Cristiceps pallidus, Macleay, P.L.S., N.S.W. vi. 1881, p. 26.

2 Cristiceps splendens Castelnau, P.Z.S., Vict. 11. 1873, p. 66. The Australian members of the genus have been recently

studied by McCulloch® from whom the above synonomy and the following description of C. australis is accepted.

D. ii., xxvi.-xxix.; 6-8. A. 11., 24-26. V. 38. Vert. 14.+ 30. First dorsal spine situated rather behind the middle of the eye. The two dorsals either entirely separate, or the first just connected to the base of the second by membrane. The dorsal rays equidistant. Caudal peduncle long and slender, the membrane from the last dorsal ray reaching from half to two-thirds along its length. A branched tentacle on the snout and a long simple one over the eye. Snout sub-conical.

Colour.—General colour green with darker bands and silvery markings.

(5) McCulloch, Rec. Aust. Mus. vii. 1908, p. 39, pl. x. fig. 3.

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Hutton rendered the New Zealand localities as Bay of Islands and Cape Campbell, and there are specimens in the Auckland Museum from Hauraki Gulf.

Beyond New Zealand the species occurs in Australia and Tasmania.

AUCHENOPTERUS Giinther 1861.

Differs from Cristiceps in having larger scales and none or but one soft ray in the dorsal fin.

AUCHENOPTERUS AYSONI Hector.

Auchenopterus aysoni Hector, T.N.Z.I. xxxiv. 1902, p. 240. pl. xv.

Biv; D. in: 33; A. 10; P: 8; V.03; nee (interrupted).

Length of head 4-1; height of body 4-8 in the total; length of snout 3-9 and diameter of eye 8-7 in the head.

Body compressed, scales very minute; a pair of branched tentacles from above the snout, not from the nostril. Guill openings wide, teeth minute on jaws and vomer; tail slightly unsymmetrical and caudal distinctly separate from both dorsal and caudal.

Colour—Uniform light brown, with four oval translucent spots on the dorsal fin.

Length.—143 mm. Hab.—Bay of Islands.

The above description is in part copied and in part deduced from the figures supplied by Hector. I have not seen a specimen of the species, and Mr. Hamilton tells me that the type, sup- posed to be in the Dominion Museum, no longer exists.

It may be noted that the description and the figure are far from agreeing; the dorsal is illustrated as having three more components than described, while the anal, said to have ten rays is shown as possessing twenty-one, with a gap equal to, at least four rays; the figure is probably more nearly correct. The illustration shows more pectoral rays than described, and ten rays are drawn in the caudal. The tentacle at the tip of the snout is shown, also a simple one over the eye, but the latter is not referred to.

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Several points in the description taken in conjunction with the fact that the scales are very minute and the lateral line interrupted, lead to the opinion that the fish is incorrectly assigned to the genus Auchenopterus, but actual specimens are requisite before any pronouncement can be made.

This species differs from A. monophthalmus Giinther, the type of the genus, in having the first dorsal fin entirely separate from and higher than the succeeding portion, a condition which Jordan and Evermann® have expressed in the sub-generic name Corallicola.

ERICENTRUS Gill, 1893.

Head and mouth small, body elongate, covered with small scales. Two dorsal fins not entirely separate, the second very long with a single posterior soft ray. Anal with two spines. Pectoral with undivided rays. Anterior portion of lateral line curved, composed of distinct scales.

ERICENTRUS RUBRUS Hutton.

Sticharium rubrum Hutton, Cat. Fish. N.Z. 1872, p. 33. Chnus rubrus Hutton, T.N.Z.I. v. 1873, p. 264, pl. ix.

Encentrus rubrus Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. vi. 1893, pp. 119 and 123.

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Leneth of head 5-23; height of body 4-0, and length of caudal 4-8 in the length; diameter of eye 3-2, length of snout 2-6, and interorbital space 6-5 in the length of the head.

Head small, shghtly compressed, upper and lower profiles forming an acute angle, snout pointed, eyes large, occupying half the depth of the head and cutting the upper profile, a bifid ten- tacle above the middle of the orbit, interorbital space narrow and flat; jaws equal, the maxilla is rounded behind, not dilated, and extends to beneath the first third of the eye; gills four, a slit behind the fourth; gill-rakers small, about ten on the first arch. Posterior nostril above the front edge of the orbit, the anterior one midway between it and the end of the snout. furnished with a tentacle.

(6) Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. 1898, p. 2369.

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Teeth—A broad patch in each jaw and on the vomer, a frenum behind the upper teeth.

Fins.—The dorsal fin arises slightly in advance of the edge of the preopercle and its anterior spines are but little longer than the diameter of the eye, there is a notch behind the fourth (or fifth) spine and another, less marked, behind the twenty- seventh of the whole series, the spines of this third portion are slightly higher than the preceding ones, the fin is terminated by a single small ray. The anal commences beneath the twelfth spine of the second dorsal, two spines being followed by twenty- four simple rays. The pectoral is smll, rounded, and composed of undivided rays. The ventrals are inserted in advance of the pectorals. The caudal is rounded of undivided rays and its peduncle is narrow, one-third greater than the diameter of the eye, the last rays of both dorsal and anal fins are attached to it by membrane.

Scales—The entire head is naked, but the body is wholly clothed with small embedded scales; the lateral line arises above the edge of the preopercle and drops abruptly to the midline behind the pectoral, whence it passes, on less defined scales in a more or less broken series, to the caudal.

Colour.—In life the ground colour is a seaweed green with dark markings disposed as below:—A series of elongate spots close to and parallel to the dorsal profile, another series on the lateral line and usually some smaller spots below it; a dark mark behind and another below the eye; both dorsal and anal fins have oblique markings in contrary direction to the lie of the spines or rays. A few indistinct bars cross the tail.

Length.—82 mm. Hab,—Wellington, Kaikoura, Akaroa, Chatham Is.

This species is not very common, but I have taken it in rock pools at Kaikoura and Akaroa, also at the Chatham Islands, while the type specimens were obtained in Wellington Harbour.

Hiding under weeds in the pools, the little fishes are scarcely to be found unless the water is poisoned, when they leave their retreats in common with other denizens of the pool.

So well do the colour and markings of the fish harmonise with its surroundings that even when well within view it cannot be detected until it moves, when it may be netted with a sweep of the hand-net. When transferred to preservatives, either alcohol or formaline, its colour is completely changed, the brilliant green becoming an equally brilliant red, afterwards changing to orange. This disposition to change colour is responsible for the

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inappropriate name rubrus, which refers to the appearance of the fish after preservation.

Hutton states that the dorsal commences immediately at the back of the head, whereas its origin is in advance of the preopercle. Many of the females obtained were distended with young, showing ovoviviparity, a character as far as known, of the Clinine.

COLOGRAMMUS Gill, 1893.

“The Sticharium flavescens or Clinus flavescens of Hutton is differentiated from other types (and especially EHricentrus) by the form, more nearly even dorsal with a short-rayed portion (about 38 spines + 6 rays), and imperfect lateral line; it may appropriately be designated as Cologrammus.’’—( Gill.)

COLOGRAMMUS FLAVESCENS Hutton.

Sticharium flavescens Hutton, Cat. Fish. N.Z. 1872, p. 33. Clinus flavescens Hutton, T.N.Z.I. v. 1873, p. 264, pl. xv.

Cologrammus flavescens Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. vi. 1893, pp. 119 and 124.

Pei SOxVvills Os A. B04 Vids P42 = Co 12.

Length of head 4-6 and height of body 5-25 in the length

Snout slightly shorter than the diameter of the eye, which is 4-33 in the head. The snout is rounded and the dorsal fin commences at a very short distance behind the head; the lateral hne slopes gently downwards, ceasing under the tenth dorsal spine; dorsal joined to the base of the caudal by a membrane.

Colour.—Pale yellow, with two oblique reddish streaks on the preoperculum from the eye backwards.

Hab.—Cook Strait.

As, according to Mr. Hamilton, the type specimen is no longer to be found in the Dominion Museum, and as no other example is known in collections, I have virtually reproduced Hutton’s description. This, taken in conjunction with the later published figure, which appears to be only fairly reliable, should render it easy to identify the species when again obtained.

The following discrepancies occur between the description and the figure :—The dorsal fin is represented as arising behind the preopercle, but described as commencing behind the head.

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Two ventral rays only are shown, while the lateral line is drawn as continuous, instead of terminating beneath the tenth dorsal spine.

EXPLANATION OF PLATES.

Puate I. Tripterygion tripenne Forster.

Nearly twice natural size.

Puate IT. Tripterygion medium Giinther.

Twice natural size.

Puate IIT. Tripterygion varium Forster.

Twice natural size.

Puatse IV. Notoclinus fenestratus Forster.

One-third larger than natural size.

PLATE V. Ericentrus rubrus Hutton. Twice natural size.

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DRAWINGS of NEW ZEALAND FISHES

By Epagar R. Warre, F.L.S., Curator.

Plate VI.

Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, placed in my hands for report, some old drawings and photographs of fishes discovered in a portfolio in the Museum. The majority of them are named in the handwriting of Sir James Hector, and call for no special mention, but some of them were not identified, and are of more than passing interest, being unfamiliar forms, of which three are new to the known fauna of New Zealand, namely, Gempylus serpens Cuvier and Valenciennes, Germo germon Lacépéde, and Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque.

Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, Curator of the Auckland Museum, also sent me a few photographs, and some of these are likewise referred to below.

ECHINORHINUS BRUCUS Bonnaterre.

Squalus brucus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. Ichth., 1788, p. 11. Echinorhinus spinosus Blainville, Bull. Sci. 1816, p. 121.

This species was first recorded as a member of the New Zealand fauna by Parker,” who identified the teeth and tail of a specimen caught off Dunedin in July, 1883.

One of the photographs sent by Mr. Cheeseman represents this species. The subject was stranded at Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty, and the following are supplied as dimensions :—

Length.—8ft. 5in., girth 5ft. 6in., weight about 33ewt.

(7) Parker, T.N.Z.I. xvi. 1884, p. 280.

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PLAGIOGENEION RUBIGINOSUS Hutton. Therapon rubiginosus Hutton, T.N.Z.I. viii. 1876, p. 209. Plagiogencion rubiginosus Forbes, ib. xxii. 1890, p. 273. Waite, ib. xlv. 1913, p. 218, pl. vin.

A drawing by Miss Nellie Drew of Wanganui, represents this fish. It was sent to Sir James Hector, with a note to the effect that the fish was taken at Kapiti Island in Cook Strait, July 2nd, 1879, and that its colour was silvery pink. The collection also includes a photograph of the same species but without note of any kind.

It might appear that this species is subject to similar conditions which drive the Frost fish (Lepidopus) ashore, for all occurrences recorded are in the winter months, and the fish has never been obtained except when stranded. A week after my paper, above noted, was published, namely on June 18th, 1913. Mr. F. W. Armstrong, of New Brighton, brought me a perfect specimen which he had picked up on the beach, and on July 7th Mrs. R. Hartley sent me an example stranded on the beach at Okain’s Bay, Banks Peninsula. On July 14th Professor Benham, of the Otago University, wrote to me that he had received a specimen picked up at Moeraki, and he mentions as a curious coincidence that he should have obtained the species, regarded as rare, about the time I had secured the fishes locally, and of which I had apprised him. Mrs. Wilfrid Hall tells me that many years ago she presented a specimen to the Museum taken on the beach at Governor’s Bay, Lyttelton Harbour. This is possibly the second specimen referred to in my paper.

Both new specimens in my hands have twelve spines and eleven rays in the dorsal fin, as in the specimen figured. The life colours are really gorgeous, the body being ruby coloured above and silvery beneath. the fins bright crimson.

This fish is allied to Emmelichthys but differs, among other details, by being much deeper in the body, and by having the dorsal spines wholly connected by membrane. Erythrichthys agrees with the latter in respect to its general proportions but is characterised by having the dorsal spines more or less isolated. Erythrichthys schlegeli is said to be an inhabitant of deep water.

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GERMO GERMON Lacépéde.

Scomber germon Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii. 1800, p. 598 and fils 1802s pp...

Germo germon Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1904, (1905), p. 761 (which see for synonomy).

The drawing is by Mr. G. H. Wilson, Survey Office, Gisborne, and is marked ‘‘ Bonita, captured by Mr. John Somervell in the Turanganui River, April 13th, 1885.’’ The drawing, in black and white, is stated to be of natural size, and is 478 mm. (18% inches) in length. It is made with the care usually taken by survey draughtsmen, and certainly represents a fish of the genus Germo. Translating such terms as ‘‘back fin and side fin,’’ the following notes are made on the drawing, ‘‘Dorsal spines xiv., eight finlets each in dorsal and anal, the pectoral extends to the origin of the anal, the fins fit into grooves and there are no obstructions to movement through the water. The colours are black on the back, graduated to indigo on the sides, belly silvery, shot with tints of golden green, a dark spot on each caudal lobe. scales very fine, small and silken to the touch.’’

The Long-finned Albacore of the Pacific is usually associated with Germo alalunga (Scomber alatunga Gmelin) of the Atlantic, but Fowler writes:—‘This form has never been compared with the Atlantic fish, in view of which it would seem best to retain Lacépéde’s name for the Indian form.’’ He adds: ‘‘Bennet records a fish from Polynesia, which may probably be identical.’’ I have therefore simply adopted the suggestion without being in a position to offer any opinion on the subject.

GASTEROCHISMA MELAMPUS Richardson.

Gasterochisma melampus Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xv., 1845, p. 346, Waite, T.N.Z.I. xlv. 1913, p. 220, pl. viii.

This species is represented by a photograph sent by Mr. Cheeseman, who informs me that the fish was stranded on the north coast of Gisborne, and was nearly six feet in length.

The specimen was evidently adult and exhibits all the features mentioned in my previous note on the species. Since that was written I find that Mr. David G. Stead, of Sydney, recorded the capture of two specimens at Shoalhaven, New South Wales, in August 1906.8 They measured respectively 372 and 405 mm. in length, and were thus intermediate in size, between

(8) Pub. Dept. of Fisheries, N.S.W. ‘Additions No. 1,’’ 1907, p. 21, pl. vi.

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those of Richardson and Johnston. The illustration, reproduced from a photograph, which accompanies the paper, shows that although the adult characters have not been attained at that stage, they indicate a further development than the smaller example figured by Richardson. Referring to the great develop- ment of the ventral fins in the young, Mr. Stead writes :—‘‘The possession of these relatively enormous ventral fins would appear at first sight to be altogether out of keeping with a fish which is quite obviously pelagic in habit and a rapid swimmer; but when the highly compressed form and somewhat wedge-shaped abdomen are considered, it is seen that if the fish were moving slowly it could hardly retain its balance in the water without the aid of some such organs. Particularly must they be of use if, as is probable, this species subsists to some extent upon slow- moving pelagic organisms. Of course, in rapid swimming, the ventral fins would be laid back in their groove.’’

One may inquire how the adult, in which the ventral fins are so greatly reduced, succeeds in balancing itself in the water?

I should have mentioned, as Mr. Stead has done, that the identity of Gasterochisma and Lepidothynnus was first promulgated by Regan’.

GEMPYLUS SERPENS Cuvier and Valenciennes.

Gempylus serpens Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. vili. 1831, p. 207.

The drawing is marked ‘‘Scabbard Fish,’’ and consists of the head and fore part of the body, and a smaller sketch of the entire fish, which is described as sealeless, and 3ft. 5in. (1042 mm.) in leneth. No specific locality is mentioned, but the specimen was evidently obtained in fresh condition, for the sheet also contains drawings of a live leech-like parasite attached to the fish. and deseribed as follows:—‘‘This sae contains a blood-red fluid, which is in constant motion, ebbing to and fro without the sac itself undergoing any change of form.”’

LUVARUS IMPERIALIS Rafinesque. Plate VI. Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, Caratt. Ale. Gen. 1810, p. 22. Waite, Rec. Aust. Mus. iv.‘1902, p. 292, pl. xlv. xlvi.

Originally known from the Mediterranean and Atlantic, this species was first recorded from the Pacific in 1901 by Mr. C. F.

(9) Regan Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist..(Ser: 7) x. 1902, p: 120:

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Holder, who published a photograph of a specimen taken at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California.

In the following year I identified a specimen stranded at Bermagui on the coast of New South Wales. It would seem, however, that Mr. Holder’s specimen did not present the first opportunity for recording the species from the Pacific, for one of the drawings sent by Mr. Hamilton portrays this fish. The picture is in outline, drawn with pen and ink, and bears the following words, ‘‘Cast on beach near North Cape, North Island, 1887.’’ The drawing measures 650 mm. (254 inches), but if to scale may be but half or even only one-third the actual size of the specimen, the retrogression of the dorsal spines indicating a mature or aged example. The drawing of Rafinesque’s type specimen shows the dorsal and anal fins as originating in the same vertical, a condition of the Australian example also. In the figure published by Goode and Bean?!° two dorsal spines are shown in advance of the anal, whereas in the drawing of the New Zealand fish, the origin of the first dorsal spine is posterior to the third of the anal. Though the anal fin also suffers regression it is evidently affected to a lesser degree than is the dorsal.

The drawing is rather diagrammatic but has been carefully done, and it is reproduced herewith, artist C.H.P.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque.

Greatly reduced from a drawing by ‘‘C.H.P.’’

(10) Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth. 1895, pl. lxiv., fig. 230.

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IN

NEW ZEALAND

By Epe@ar R. Waite, F.L.S8., Curator.

Plates VII. and VIII.

In the ‘‘Guide Book to the Whales and Dolphins of New Zealand’’ I noted that Hyperoodon had been recently recorded from New Zealand!!, but that, at the time of writing details were not to hand.

I now learn that the specimen was found stranded by my friend, Captain John Bollons, of the Government steamer Hinemoa, who has placed in my hands the extremity of the mandible, which he had sawn off. He supplies the following particulars of this occurrence, and if the determination is correct another species is added to our known fauna. The bottle-nosed whale was found stranded on the beach at East Cape (the most easterly point of New Zealand), and was twenty-five feet in length. The lower jaw measured two and a half feet, and the teeth were imbedded half an inch below the gum. The specimen was in a considerably decayed condition when dis- covered, and the tip of the mandible was the only portion of the animal preserved.

I have previously referred to Captain Bollons’s interest in, and knowledge of, marine life, and he not only identified the whale from external appearance, but took pains to secure one of its most characteristic features. The record above mentioned appeared in the newspapers on information supplied by Captain °

(11) Guide Book, Canterbury Museum, 1912, p. 15, footnote.

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Bollons, who stated that the Whale had been discovered stranded, during his periodic visit to the lighthouses on the New Zealand coast.

The characteristic features of the Ziphioid or Beaked Whales, hitherto recorded from New Zealand, are so pronounced that there is small difficulty in determining to what genus any specimen should be assigned, providing, of course, that the peculiar diagnostic features of the individual are preserved.

Though the specimen now under notice consists only of a small portion of the mandible, it can be definitely said that it is referable neither to Berardius or Mesoplodon, but possesses characters, generally speaking, common to Ziphius and Hyperoodon, that is, there is only one pair of teeth in the mandible and these teeth are situated at the extremity of the jaw.

In the absence of specimens of both genera for comparison, accurate determination may be impossible, but for reasons adduced below, I am inclined to consider the bone referable to Hyperoodon.

The specimen preserved by Captain Bollons consists of a small piece of the anterior portion of the mandible, 115 mm. in length, the greatest width, at the sawn surface being 70 mm. Viewed from above or below the extremity is trilobed, the middle lobe being the longest, and separated from the lateral ones by two pits, from which the tusk-like teeth project. The teeth lie almost parallel to each other, are slightly curved and are inclined upwards and forwards, forming an angle of about 40 degrees with the axis of the bone. They are cemented in their sockets by a greyish-white coloured substance. The left tooth is slightly the longer, and projects 37 mm. beyond its insertion though only 23 mm. beyond the level of the median lobe. The exposed portion of the tooth is nearly circular in section, its greatest, or antero- posterior diameter being 13 mm. at its insertion. The terminal 5 mm. is composed of enamel, of which the distal half is con- tracted to form a nipple-like tip.

The alveolar groove extends along the outer upper edge of each ramus, and the irregularly disposed pits are supposed to have held teeth in fcetal or early life. On the underside of the mandible, and towards its tip are three pairs of orifices, the outlets of the dental canal, seen in the middle of each lateral half of the sawn surface, and shown in the photograph CE VW tL;)..

Removed from its socket, the left tooth is found to be 67 mm. in length, of which nearly half is imbedded in the bone and coated with cement. This cement closely invests the root of the

BOTTLE-NOSED WHALE 25

tooth, and the irregular nature of its outer surface corresponds with the irregularity of the interior of the socket. (Pl. VIIL., fig. 2.)

The somewhat extensive literature on Hyperoodon and Ziphius does not help one who has but the fragment of a mandible, to any extent. The genera agree in that the lower jaw has a pair of teeth at or near the extremity of the mandible. Owen!” figured the teeth and extremity of the lower jaw of an immature Hyperoodon, and thus described the teeth :—‘‘They are conical, slightly curved, with an unusually sharp and slender apex, tipped by enamel. Though loose in their sockets, they project so little from them, and have such wide bases that they are retained in sifu, and do not fall out in the dried jaw; two smaller cavities in front, and the remains of a larger socket in the alveolar groove, behind the retained teeth, attest the former presence of other teeth.’’

Owen’s drawing exhibits a great similarity to our specimen. in which, however, the teeth are larger, and are placed terminally, those pictured by Owen being situated some distance behind the apex, though said to be at the extremity. The difference in the position of the teeth may be due to the instability of degenerate characters, or may be merely a question of age. The small cavities in front which Owen considered to be the sockets of previously existing teeth, are not present in our specimen unless they can be identified with what I have supposed to be an anterior branch of the canal.

The teeth of Hyperoodon appear to be considerably larger than those of Ziphius, being, according to van Beneden!? a decimeter in length, the root included, while those of Ziphius cavirostris, according to the same author, are but 47 mm. long, or less than half those of Hyperoodon.

The Bottle-nosed Whale is a common northern species, and has been frequently cast on to British coasts. Though usually known as Hyperoodon rostratum Muller, True!* dates the first diagnosis to Forster (1770), the name _ being therefore H. ampullatus. It is, however, more probable that our specimen should be referred to H. planifrons Flower! described from a water-worn cranium found at Lewis Bay, Dampiere’s <Archi- pelago, N.W. Australia. H. ampullatus has not been identified from southern waters, but True supplies the following localities

(12) Owen, Odontography, 1840-45, p. 347, pl. Ixxxviii., fig. 1.

(13) Van Beneden and Gervais, Ostéographie des Cétacés 1880, p. 373. (14) True, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 73, 1910, p. 76.

(15) Flower, P.Z.8., 1882, p. 392.

26 WAITE for H. planifrons, some of which are, however, represented by fossil specimens:—Indian and Pacific Oceans; Lewis Island,

Australia; Province of Buenos Ayres, Argentina, and territories of Chubut and Santa Cruz, Patagonia.

EXPLANATION OF PLATES.

Puatre VII.

2 Hyperoodon planifrons Flower.

Extremity of mandible, seen from above, natural size.

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2 Hyperoodon planifrons Flower.

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Phot MbeR TARY MOLMUSGA IN THE

CANTERBURY MUSEUM

By R. SpeieHt, M.A., M.Sc., F.G.S. Assistant Curator.

In view of the efforts now being made by the Geological Survey and by private individuals to place the evidence for the subdivision of the Tertiary geological series in this country on a better footing, it has been considered advisable to publish a list of the specimens in this Museum, with the localities from which they have been obtained. Such a list will no doubt assist workers elsewhere who may wish to know what the Museum really possesses. The collection is, besides, a most important one, as it contains the fossils originally gathered by von Haast in the elassic localities situated within the province of Canterbury ; and also much of the material dealt with by Hutton, both before and during the time he filled the position of Curator of this Museum. This material has been derived from such well-known districts as Waipara and the Weka Pass; the Greta and Waikari Valleys; the Trelissick Basin, the home of J. D. Enys, a keen collector, whose labours have enriched the institution in numerous ways; the Curiosity Shop; Kakahu; and especially the rich horizons of Pareora, Waihao, and Mount Harris. These areas probably include some of the most note- worthy fossiliferous Tertiary localities in New Zealand. Numerous specimens have also been added to the collection from the rich Pliocene beds of Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay.

In compiling this list, the author has received very substan- tial assistance from Mr. Henry Suter, who has lately overhauled the collection of recent Mollusca displayed in the Museum, and the classification adopted in his ‘‘Manual’’!® has been followed throughout; for his generous help on many occasions our thanks are specially due.

(16) Suter, Manual of N.Z. Mollusea, 1913.

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It has not been thought advisable at the present time to do more than give a localised list. since a much greater mass of material must be obtained from numerous localities, and collected with, due regard to zonal distribution, before any satisfactory attempt at generalisation can be made, without incurring the danger of falling into serious error.

It is necessary to note that it has been considered advisable in one or two cases to select types where none were previously indicated. There can be no doubt that the material on which Hutton founded his new species described in Trans. of the N.Z. Institute, vol. IX.. pp. 593-8, is still in the Museum and can be easily identified. and the types have been selected from this. Owing to the very numerous changes in nomenclature it has not been considered necessary to include the author’s name in brackets when his species has been assigned to a different genus.

The number of specimens of each individual species in the collection from a particular locality is indicated by a figure in brackets following the name of the locality. One or two of these names are now difficult to assign to their proper district since place-names well known once have at times disappeared from maps and from the remembrance of settlers. Where possible a more precise indication of the locality is given. This applies to such names as Double Corner, an old abandoned station near the Lower Waipara Gorge, and also such misleading names as White Rock, which is the name of a well-known limestone quarry in North Canterbury and also of an important locality in South Canterbury. where numerous typical Pareora fossils have been obtained.

The following is a list of works of special importance in considering the synonomy of the species of New Zealand Tertiary fossil Mollusea.

‘““An Account of New Zealand, ete..’’ by Rev. William Yate. London, 1835.

An appendix to this work contains a list of shells described by Gray.

“‘Voyage de l’Astrolabe, vol. ii., Zoologie—Mollusea,’’ by Quoy and Gaimard. Paris, 1832-5.

“Voyage de la Coquille—Zoologie,’’ by Lesson and Garnot. Paris, 1826.

‘‘New Zealand,’’ by Dieffenbach,—Description of the Fauna by Gray. London, 1843.

‘“Geological Observations in South America,’’ by Darwin.— Descriptions of Mollusca by Sowerby. London, 1846.

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**Reise der Novara—Geologie, vol. ii., Pal.,’’ by Zittel. Vienna, 1864.

‘*Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand,’’ by Hutton. Wellington, 1873.

‘*Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca of New Zealand, by Hutton. Wellington, 1873.

‘*Pliocene Mollusca of New Zealand—Macleay Memorial Volume,’’ by Hutton. Sydney, 1893.

**Mollusea of the Pareora and Oamaru Systems,’’ by Hutton. Proce. Linn. Soc., N.S. Wales, i. (2nd Series). Sydney, 1887.

The following volumes of the Transactions of the N.Z. Institute contain descriptions of new species of Tertiary Molltisea, namely :—vii., 1x., XV., XVll., XVIll., XXXIV., XXXVil., bye oW. Hutton: xii.,. xiv., by T. W. Kirk; xxxii., xxxvil., by R. Murdoch; xl, xlii., xlv., by Henry Suter; and xl., by J. Allan Thomson.

PTEROPODA. Fam. CAVOLINIIDAE.

Vaginella aucklandica Clarke (?); T.N.Z.1., xxxvii., 1905. pean pl. xxx, fig. 5. Weka Pass.

GASTEROPODA. Fam. TROCHIDAE.

Trochus nodosus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 330. Broken River. (Idio-type.) Trochus tiaratus Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., iii., 1834, p. 256, pl. Ixiv., figs. 6-11. Waipara (3); Lower Gorge of Waipara. Trochus (Coelotrochus) conicus Hutton; T.N.Z.L. xv., 1883, p. 411. Wanganui. (Type.) Trochus sp. Whitewater Creek, Trelissick Basin. Ethalia zelandica Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Péle Sud, v., L54, p. do, pl: xiv., figs. 5, 6. Wanganui (2).

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Callistoma spectabile Adams; P.Z.S., 1854 (1855), p. 37, pl. xxvii., fig. 7. Broken River (4).

Callistoma hodgei Hutton; T.N.Z.1., vii., 1875, p. 458, pl. xxi. Wanganui. This has been marked ‘‘type’’ by Hutton, but Mr. Suter notes that it cannot be the type, which is a somewhat larger example in the Otago Museum. See T.N.Z.I.. vil., 1875, p. 458.

Callistoma ponderosum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 322. Wanganui. (Type.)

Fam. TUuRBINIDAE.

Turbo marshalli Thomson; T.N.Z.1., xl., 1908, p. 103, pl. xiv., fig. 6. Tutis below limestone, Kakanui. Turbo superbus Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii. Pal., 1864, p. 39, pl. xiv., fig. 2. Porter River (4). Astrea heliotropium Martyn; Univ. Conch., i., 1784, fig. 30 (not of 1769.) Wanganui.

Fam. RIsSSOIDAE.

Rissoa olivacea Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xiv., 1882, p. 147, pl. 1., fig. K, 1-4. Petane (6). Rissoa gradata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 321, pl. xviii., fig. 21. Wanganui (Lecto-type). Rissoina rugulosa Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 28. Petane. Rissoa impressa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 321. Petane (Lecto-type). Rissoa (Alvania) rugosa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 321. Petane (Lecto-type). Rissoina (Zebina) emarginata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 320, pl. xviii., fig. 20. Wanganui (Type). Rissoa (Onobia) semisulcata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 321. Wanganui (Lecto-type).

TERTIARY MOLLUSCA 31 Fam. VERMETIDAE.

Serpulorbis zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., iii., Head. 206. pllxvii., figs. 16,17. Wanganui. Serpulorbis sipho Lamarck; Anim. s. Vert. v., 1818, p. 626. (= Cladopoda monlifera Hutton ; Cat. Tert. Moll. p. 13.) Wanganui,

Fam. TuRRITELLIDAE.

Turritella pagoda Reeve; Conch. Icon., v., fig. 60. Te Ngawai; White Rock River (10). Turritella cavershamensis Harris; Cat. Tert. Moll. Brit. Mus.. part I., 1897, p: 242. White Rock River (2); Pareora River (2). Another fine specimen has no locality indicated. Turritella carlotte Watson; Journ. Linn. Soc., xv., 1881, p. 222, (= T. vittata Hutton). Wanganui. Turritella rosea Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., 11., 1834, p. 136, pl. lv., figs. 24-26. var. A. of Hutton, White Rock River (4); Blue Cliffs, Otaio, (2); Mount Harris (2); Point Hill, Waitaki (3); Motunau (3); Greta (38); Westland (3); Wanganui (2).

Turritella bicincta Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 13. Petane (5).

Turritella symmetrica Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 30. Greta (3); Porter River (7); White Rock River (6); Lower Gorge of the Waipara River (3); Wanganui (2).

Eglisia striolata Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xvii., 1885, p. 329.

White Rock River (Holotype and fourteen paratypes).

Eglisia planostoma Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 320, pl.

xvill., fig. 19. Petane (Type).

Fam. STRUTHIOLARIIDAE.

Struthiolaria cincta Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 11. Waikari; Greta (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Struthiolaria frazeri Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xvii., 1885, p. 329. Motunau.

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Struthiolaria vermis Martyn; Univ. Conch., 1i., 1784, fig. 53. var. A. Matapiro, Hawke’s Bay; Woodville; var. B. Wanganui (2). Struthiolaria (Pelicaria) obesa Hutton; T.N.Z.L, xvii., 1885, p. 329. Shepherd’s Hut, Waipara (Type) ; Porter River. Struthiolaria parva Hutton; M.S., Suter. (Chiro-type). Locality unspecified. Struthiolaria cingulata Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. 11., Pal., 1864, p. 30, pl. xv.; fig. 2. Porter River; Motunau; Mount Harris; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Struthiolaria tuberculata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 11. Pareora; Waikari; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Struthiolaria spinosa Hector; T.N.Z.1., xviii., 1886, p. 335. Waikari; Broken River (2) ; Kakahu. Struthiolaria calcar Hutton; T.N.Z.1. xviii., 1886, p. 335. Te Ngawai Cliff. Struthiolaria papulosa Martyn; Univ. Conch., ii., 1784, fig. 54. Wanganui; Pareora. Struthiolaria caniculata Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. u., Pal., 1864, p. 34, pl. xv., fig. 1. : Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Fam. CALYPTRAEIDAE. Crepidula gregaria Sowerby; in Darwin’s ‘“‘Geol. Obs. S. Amer.,’’ 1846, p. 254, pl. ii., fig. 34. Pareora (2); Motunau (2); Waikari (4). Crepidula crepidula Linné; Mus. Lud. Ulricae, 1764, p. 639. Porter River (4); White Rock River (2); Wanganui (5). Crepidula aculeata Gmelin; Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 1789, p. 3693. Broken River; Wanganui (2). Calyptrea maculata Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., 11., 1835, p. 422, pl. lxxil., figs. 6-9. Wanganui (3); Porter River (2). Calyptrea. maculata inflata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xv., 1883, p. 411. Wanganui (Type). Calyptrea alta Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvil., 1885, p. 329. Petane (Lecto-type) ; White Rock River. Calyptrea scutum Lesson; Voy. Coquille, Zool. xi., 1830, p. 395. Waikari; Puketapu, Napier; Wanganui; Point Hill, Waitaki (4); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

TERTIARY MOLLUSCA 33 Fam. NATICIDAE.

Polinices (Lunatia) sutwralis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 597, pl. xvi., fig. 11. Awamoa; Waitaki; Mount Horrible, Pareora; Waihao. Polinices ovatus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 9. Broken River; Pareora; Waikari; White Rock River; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Polinices gibbosus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvin., 1886, p. 334. Broken River (Type) ; Pareora; White Rock River; Waihao. Polinices huttoni v. Ihering; Anal. Mus. Nat. Buenos Aires, xiv.,

1907, p. 154, pl. v., fig. 16 (= N. solida Sowerby ; Darwin’s Geol. Obs. on S. America, p. 255). Fox’s Gully; Arahura River; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Polinices (Lunatia) cinctus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvi., 1885, Beals, pl, xvi; fie. 12. Wanganui (Type). Pohnices laevis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvn., 1885, p. 317, pl. xviu., fig. 10. Petane (Type) ; Wanganui. Natica australis Hutton; Jour. de Conch., xxvi., 1878, p. 23. Wanganui; Porter River; White Rock River. Natica zelandica Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., 11., 1832, pe aot. pl. ixvi., fig, 11-12. White Rock River; Wanganui. Ampullina miocenica Suter; N.Z. Geol. Survey., Paleont. Bulletin: No. 2,. part: 1.,.1913, p. 21, pl. u., fig. 2. (= Sigaretus sub-globosus Hutton non Sowerby). White Rock River (2); Te Ngawai. Ampullina undulata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 318, pl. xvi, fie. 11. Wanganui (Type).

Fam, CYPRAEIDAE.

Cypraea ficoides Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll, 1873, p. 8. Oamaru (2). Cyprea ovulatella Tate; T.R.S. S. Austr., xiii., 1890, p. 208, pl. vi., fig. 7 (= Marginella ventricosa Hutton). Porter River. Trivia zealandica T. W. Kirk; T.N.Z.L., xiv., 1882, p. 409. Petane (6).

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Fam. SEPTIDAE.

Cymatium spenglert Chemnitz; Conch. Cal., xi., 1795, p. 117, pl. exi., figs. 1839-40. Wanganui; Greta. Cymatium minimum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 5. White Rock River (2).

Fam. CASSIDIDAE.

Phalium orchatinum pyrum Lamark; Anim. sans vert., vii., 1822, p. 226. Wanganui. Galeodea sulcata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 8. Pareora (3) ; Lower Gorge of Waipara; Fox’s Gully, Arahura. Galeodea senex Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 11. Oamaru; Curiosity Shop, Rakaia; Pareora; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Fam. EpPiroNtpae.

Epitonium (Cirsotrema) zelebori Dunker; Verh. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch, xvi., 1866, p. 912. White Rock River; Wanganui. Epitonium (Cirsotrema) marginatum Wutton; T.N.Z.1.. xvii, 1885, p. 330. Curiosity Shop (Type). Epitonium (Cirsotrema) nympha Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xvii. 1885, p. 321. Petane (Type). Epitonium (Cirsotrema) rotundum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 10. Epitonium (Cirsotrema) rugulosum lyratum Zittel; Voy. Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p. 41, pl. ix., fig. 8. Lower Gorge of Waipara (2) ; Curiosity Shop. Epitonium (Cirsotrema) brown Zittel; Voy. Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p. 42, pl. ix., fig. 9. Opihi; White Rock River (2). Lissospira corulum Hutton ; T.N.Z.I., xvii., 1885, p. 322, pl. xviii., fig. 22. Wanganui (Type).

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TERTIARY MOLLUSCA 35 Fam. PYRAMIDELLIDAE.

Eulimella media Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xvii., 1885, p. 318, pl. xvin., fig. 13. Wanganui (Type). Eulimella deplera Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 318. Wanganui (Type). Turbonilla zealandica Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 22. Wanganui. Odostomia georgiana Hutton; T.N.Z.1.. xvii. 1885, p. 319, pl. xvill., fig. 16. Wanganui (Type). Odostomia rugata Hutton; O. plicata Hutton; T.N.Z.L.. xvil., iso p. o19) pl. xviis fies 17. Wanganui (Type); White Rock River. Odostomia huttoni Suter; T.N.Z.I.. xl. 1908, p. 368 (= O. fasciata Hutton non Dunker). Wanganui (Type): Odostoma sherriffii Hutton: T.N.Z.1., xv., 1883, p. 411. Odostomia sp.? White Rock River. Achs costellata Hutton; T.N.Z.L, xvii., 1885, p. 319, pl. xviil., fig. 14. Wanganui (Tvpe).

Fam. EUuLiIMIpae.

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Eulima treadwells Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. (= E. micans Hutton, not of Tenison Woods). Wanganui (Type). Eulima (Arcuella) obliqua Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xvii... 1885, p. 318. Petane (Type).

Fam. FASCIOLARIDAE.

Fusinus spiralis A. Adams; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1855 (1856), p. 221. Wanganui (2); Waikari.

Fusinus spiralis dentatus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 594. Mount Harris (Holotype).

Fusinus tegens Hutton; T.N.Z.1.. ix., 1877, p. 594. White Rock River (Holotype).

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Latirus brevirostris Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 596, pl. xvi., fig. 10. White Rock River (Holotype). Latirus huttoni Suter; T.N.Z.1., xl., 1908, p. 369, pl. xxx., fig. 3. (= Taron dubius Hutton). Wanganui.

Fam. MitTRIDAE.

Mitra inconspicua Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvil., 1885, p. 326. Mount Harris (Holotype and one paratype) ; Waihao. Mitra (Cancilla) hectori Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xxxvii., 1905, p. 473, pl. xliv., fig. 2. Waihao, near Coal-mine (Holotype). Mitra enysi Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 7. Pareora. Verillum apicale Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 7. Awamoa; Pareora. Verillum marginatum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvil., 1885, p. 315. pl. xvili., fig. 4. Wanganui (Holotype). Verillum linctum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 326. Petane (Holotype). Vexillum rubiginosum Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 20. Petane. Vexillum planatum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvi., 1885, p. 315, pl. xvil., fig. 3: Petane.

Fam. CHRYSODOMIDAE.

Siphonalia caudata Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., 11., 1833, p: 00s; pl: liv..fies, 20, 21. Wanganui; Greta. Siphonalia dilatata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrol., 11., 1833, p. 498, pl. xxxiv., figs. 15-16. Mount Harris; White Rock; Pareora; Kakahu; Waikari. Siphonalia nodosa Martyn; Univ. Conch., i., 1784. Buccinum, Be aa Wanganui. var. B. Hutton; Wanganui; Goldsborough, Westland (2); Waihao. var. conoidea Hutton; Matapiro; Greta; Arahura.

TERTIARY MOLLUSCA ae

Siphonalia subnodosa Hutton; T.N.Z.L., ix., 1877, p. 596, pl. xvi., fig. 7. White Rock River; Waikari (2). Siphonalia costata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 594, pl. xvi., fig. 2. Mount Harris; Mount Horrible. Siphonalia orbita Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 326. qreta (Type) ; Lower Gorge of Waipara River. Siphonalia mandarina Duclos; Mag. de Zool., 1831, p. 8. Wanganui (3). Siphonalia regularis Sowerby (?); Darwin’s ‘‘Geol. Obs. in S. Ameriea,’’ p. 258, pl. iv., fig. 55. Awamoa; Pareora. Siphonalia sp.? White Rock River. Euthria drewi Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xv., 1883, p. 410. Wanganui (Type). Euthria linea Martyn; Univ. Conch., i1., 1784. Buccinwm, fig. 48. Wanganui (2). Euthria linea traversi Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll, 1873, p. 9. Greta; Wanganui (2). Euthria striata Hutton; T.N.Z.J., vii., 1875, p. 458, pl. xxi. Wanganui (2). Euthria media Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 326. Waikari (Holotype and two paratypes). Euthria martensiana Hutton; Journ. de Conch., xxvi., 1878, p. 16. Wanganui. Euthria sp.? White Rock River.

Fam. BUCCINIDAE.

Cominella maculata Martyn; Univ. Conch. Bueccinum, ii., 1784, fig. 49. White Rock River; Shepherd’s Hut, Waipara; Porter River, Trelissick Basin; Matapiro, Hawke’s Bay. Cominella nassoides Reeve; Conch. Icon., iti., Buccinum, fig. 12. Petane.

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Cominella huttoni Kobelt; Jahrb. d. Deutsch. Mal. Ges., 1878, p. 233 (= C. hamiltoni Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 316, pl. xviii., fig. 7. Petane (6); Porter River. Cominella virgata H. and A. Adams; Gen. of Moll.. i., 1853. Read). atc. pls cies. 6. Wanganui. Cominella monilifera Hutton; T.N.Z.L.. xvii.. 1885, p. 327. Waipara (Type). Cominella acuminata Hutton; Pliocene Moll. of N.Z.. p. 43, pl. vi., fig. 14; C. elongata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 315, pl. xvii., fig. 5; not of Dunker. Wanganui (Lecto-type and two paratypes). Cominella lurida Philippi: Zeitschr.. f. Malak. 1848, p. 137. Wanganui. Cominella costata Quoy and Gaimard: Voy. Astrol., 11.. 1833, p. 417, pl. xxx., figs. 17-18. Cheviot. Cominella inflata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 6. Mount Horrible; Porter River. Phos cingulatus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 327. Greta (Holotype and two paratypes). Phos tncisus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 328. Te Aute (Type). Alectrion socialis Hutton; T.N.Z.I.. xvili., 1886, p. 333; Nassa » compta Hutton, l.c. ix., 1877, p. 596, pl. xvi., fig. 9. White Rock River (Holotype) ; Awamoa.

Fam. MuRIciDae.

Typhis maccoyi J. Ten. Woods; Pap. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1875, p. 22, pl. i., fig. 5 (= T. hebetatus Hutton). Mount Harris (4). Murex zelandicus Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., Zool. i1., 1833, p. 529, pl. xxxvi., figs. 5-7. Mount Harris; Wanganui (3). Murer octogonus Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., Zool. i1., 1833, p. 531, pl. xxxvi., figs. 8-9. Wanganui. Murex octogonus espinosus Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xviil.. 1886, p. 333. Wanganui (Type and one paratype). . Trophon ambiguus Philippi; Abbild. Fusus, 1844, pl. 1., fig. 2. Wanganui (4).

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Trophon cheesemani Hutton; N.Z. Journ. Se., i., 1882, p. 69. Wanganui. Trophon bonneti Cossmann; Ess. Pal. Comp., v., 1903, p. 200, peta, ie Wanganui. Trophon (Kalydon) huttoni Murdoch; T.N.Z.1., xxxii., 1900, eet. plas fio, Wanganui (Type). Trophon (Xanthochorus) expansus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xv., 1883, p. 410. Wanganui (Type) ; Wanganui; Petane. Trophon plebeius Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 9. Wanganui (5) ; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Trophon corticatus Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 9. Petane (4). Trophon gouldi Cossmann; Ess. Pal. Comp. v., 1903, p. 54, Petane (7).

Fam, THAISIDAE. Thais striata Martyn; Univ. Conch. pl. vu. Buccinum i., 1784. Greta (2); Broken River. Fam, CANCELLARIDAE. Admete lacunosa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 320. Petane (Type). Fam. PYRENIDAE.

Mitrella choava Reeve; Conch. Icon., xi., 1859, pl. xxxvii.,

fig. 239. Wanganui. Alcira varians Hutton, T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 314, pl. xviii., fig. 2. Wanganui (Lecto-type and four paratypes). Alcira angustata Hutton; T.N.Z.I., xviii., 1886, p. 333.

Petane (Type).

Anachis cancellaria Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 314. Petane (Lecto-type and one paratype).

Anachis pisaniopsis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 314. Petane (Lecto-type and six paratypes).

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Fam. VOLUTIDAE.

Fulguraria arabica Martyn; Univ. Conch., ii., 1784, fig. 52. Waikari; Broken River (3); Porter River; Mount Harris. Fulguraria arabica elongata Swainson; Exot. Conch., 1821,

pls. XX-xXl. Mount Harris; Pareora: Broken River; Waikari. Fulguraria gracilis Swainson; Exot. Conch., xx., 1821, pl. xli. Wanganui; Greta; Porter River. Fulguraria attenuata Hutton; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., xli., 1885, p. 555. Waipara; Pareora. Fulguraria (Alcithoe) aculeata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii, 1885, ise White Rock River (Lecto-tvpe and one paratype); Waihao Forks.

Lapparia corrugata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll.. 1873, p. 7.

Greta: Orari; Mount Harris (4): Waihao; Goldsborough. Westland.

Volutospina (Athleta) huttoni Suter; var. pseudorarispina (McCoy) Suter; N.Z. Geol. Survey, Palawont. Bulletin, No. 2, part 2.

Kakahu; Porter River; Broken River.

Fam. OUIvipAk.

Olivella neozelanica Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii.. 1885, p. 314. pl. xviii., fig. 1. Patea (Type) ; Greta; Shepherd’s Hut, Waipara.

Ancilla australis Sowerby ; Spec. Conch.. i., 1830, p. 7, figs. 44-46. Waihao (2); Wanganui (2); Porter River, Trelissick Basin (3); Motunau; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Ancilla depressa Sowerby ; Thes. Conch., iii., 1859, p. 63, pl. cexi.,

fig. 3. Wanganui (Type of A. lata, Hutton); Te Ngawai (2); Waikopiro, Wellington (2); Pareora; Lower Gorge of Waipara; Awamoa; Shakespeare Cliff, Wanganui.

Ancilla hebera Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 6. White Rock (2); Pareora (3); Waikari; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Ancilla, sp.? Awamoa.

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Fam. MARGINELLIDAE.

Marginella dubia Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 8. Broken River.

Marginella hectori T. W. Wark; T.N.Z.1., xiv., 1882, p. 409. Petane (3).

Marginella pygmada Sowerby; Thes. Conch., i., 1846, p. 386,

pl. Ixxv., figs. 78-79.

Petane (6).

Marginella albescens Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 19. Awamoa (10).

Fam. TURRITIDAE.

Turris altus Harris; Cat. Tert. Moll. Brit. Mus., part i., 1897. fee Oe ae (2); Mount Harris; Petane. Mirms neailis, Hutton; TIN.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 317, pl. xviii, fig. 9; sub. sp. bicarinatus Suter (M.S.). Wanganui (Holotype and four paratypes). Driliia buchanant Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 4. Petane (3); White Rock River (3); Wanganui. Drillia wanganwensis Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll, 1873, p. 4. Petane (4); Wanganui (5); var. Wanganui (10). Drillia (Crassipira) aequistriata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xviii. 1886. . 3a4. Pai (Holotype and two paratypes) ; Wanganui (?) (4). Drillia laevis Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 12. Wanganui.

Drillia (Crassispira) plicatella Hutton; T.N.Z.1.. xviii., 1886,

De ooae Wanganui (Holotype).

Surcula hamiltoni Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xxxvii., 1905, p. 472, pl. mliv:. fie. 1.

Waihao Forks (Holotype).

Surcula fusiformis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 595, pl. xvi. fig. 3.

Otaio: Awamoa; Waihao (4).

Surcula huttoni Suter; N.Z. Geol. Survey; Paleont. Bulletin No. 2, part 1, 1913, p. 28, pl. u1., fig. 10 (Pleurotoma trailli Hutton ; Cat. Tert. Moll., p. 4, not of Cat. Mar. Moll., p. 11.)

White Rock River.

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Surcula, sp.? Wanganui (3). Clavatula (Perrona) neozelanica Suter; T.N.Z.1., xlv., 1913, p. 294, pl. xii., fig. 3. Lower Gorge of Waipara (Holotype). Bathytoma albula Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 12. Petane (3); Awamoa.

Bathytoma haasti Hutton; T.N.Z.I., ix., 1877, p. 595, pl. xvi., fig. 5.

White Rock River (Lectotype); Mount Harris (2).

Bathytoma sulcata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll, 1873, p. 4.

Mount Harris; White Rock River; Upper Mohaka River; Waikari (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Bathytoma nodilirata Murdoch and Suter; T.N.Z.L, xxxviii., 1906, p. 284, pl. xxii., figs. 10, 11 (— Planotoma tuberculata Kirk; T.N.Z.1., xiv., 1882, p. 409.)

Petane.

Bathytoma cheesemani Hutton; Jour. de Conch., xxvi., 1878,

p. 16. Wanganui (Holotype in Otago Museum). Genota sp.? Mount Horrible. Genota excavata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 595, pl. xvi., fig. 6. White Rock River (6). Genota robusta Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 595, pl. xvi., fig. 4. White Rock River; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Mangilia protensa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 317. Petane (Holotype and nine paratypes). Awamoa (2); Mount Harris (2); Waihao (2). Mangilia abnormis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvu., 1885, p. 316. Petane (Holotype). Mangilia dictyota Hutton; T.N.Z.1, xvii, 1885, p. 316, pl yi eS: Petane (Holotype and four paratypes). Mangilia leptosoma Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 328. White Rock River (Holotype and six paratypes). Mangilia sinclairii Smith; Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xiv., 1884, p. 320. Wanganui (13). Daphnella lacunosa Hutton; T.N.Z.I., xvii., 1885, p. 317. Wanganui (Holotype).

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Daphnella cancellata Hutton; Journ. de Conch., xxvi., 1878,

p. 18: Wanganui.

Daphnella striata Hutton ; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 5. Wanganui (Type of Siphonalia cingulata Hutton) ; Petane; Wanganui.

Clathurella sp.?.

White Rock River.

Borsomia rudis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 328. Waihao (Holotype and four paratypes) ; Otaio. Borsoma cincta Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 327. White Rock River (Holotype and four paratypes).

Fam. TEREBRIDAE,

Terebra tristis Deshayes ; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1859, p. 306. White Rock River (2); Wanganui (4). Terebra cosiata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 315, pl. xviii., fig. 6. Wanganui (Holotype) ; Awamoa. Terebra biplex Hutton; T.N.Z.I., xvii., 1885, p. 327. Pareora (Holotype); Lower Gorge of Waipara; Tutaekuri River. ferebra orycia Suter; T.N.Z.1., xlv., 1918, p. 295, pl. xli., fig. -2. Lower Waipara Gorge (Holotype). Terebra catenifera Tate; Southern Science Rec., January, 1886, p. 5; Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., xi., 1889, p. 160. Tutaekuri (Type of Cerithium bicorona Hutton).

Fam. SCAPHANDRIDAE.

Cylichnella striata Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 52. Petane ; Awamoa.

Fam. ToRNATINIDAE.

Tornatina pachys Watson; Journ. Linn. Soc., xvii., 1883, p. 331. Wanganui.

Volvulella reflera Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xviii., 1886, p. 333. White Rock River.

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Fam. RINGICULIDAE.

Ringicula uniplicata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 313. Petane.

Fam. ACTAEONIDAE.

Pupa alba Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 51.

Wanganui. Acteon sulcatus Hutton; T.N.Z.I., xvii., 1885, p. 319, pl. xviii.,

fig. 15.

Wanganui (Type). Acteon ovalis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 325.

White Rock River (Holotype and two paratypes).

Fam. PLEUROTOMARIIDAE, Pleurotomaria tertiaria MeCoy; Prod. Pal. Vict., Decade iii., 1876,.p225, pl. xxv ie. 1. Mount Somers. ; Scissurella mantelli Woodward; Proc. Zool. Soe., 1859, p. 202, pl. xlvi., fig. 8. Petane.

Fam, FISSURELLIDAE. Emarginula striatula Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol. i1., 1834, 332, pl. Ixvii., figs. 21-22. Wanganui. : Subemarginula parmorphoidea Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., iii., 1834, p. 325, pl. Ixviii., figs. 15, 16. Wanganui. Fissuridea monilifera Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 42. Wanganui.

Fam. SIPHONARIIDAE.

Siphonaria obliquata Sowerby; Cat. Coll. Tankerville, 1825,

app. p. 7. Motunau.

Fam. LitTorRInIDAE.

Risella melanostoma Gmelin; Syst. Nat. ed. 13, 1789, p. 3581, No. 90. Wanganui.

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Fam, Conrmpae.

Hemiconus tralli Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 10. Awamoa; Point Hill, Waitaki; Broken River.

Conus ornatus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 10. Awamoa.

Fam. AMPHIBOLIDAE.

Amphibola crenata Martyn; Univ. Conch.,11., 1784, fig. 69, p. 335. (= Cyclostrema obliquata Hutton). Wanganui (Hutton’s Type).

Fam. HE.IcIDAE.

Therasia decidua Pfr; Proce. Zool. Soc., 1857, p. 108. Petane (2).

SCAPHOPODA. Fam. DENTALIIDAE.

Dentalium nanum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 1. Petane (3); Wanganui (4).

Dentalium mantelli Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p45, pl. xiii; fie: 7) Pareora (2); Waihao (3); Hampden (4); Otaio (3); Motunau (5); Waimea (3); Waikari (2); Porter River; Mohaka River (3); Whangape Lake.

Dentalium solidum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 2.

Oamaru (3); Whiteroeck River (3); Mount Harris; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Dentalium pareorensis Pilsbry and Sharp; Man. Conch. (1), xvii. p. 211 (= D. laeve Hutton, non Scholtheim, 1820; Cat. Tert.,Moll., 1873, p. 2).

Mount Harris (5). Dentalium ecostatum Kirk; T.N.Z.1., xii., 1880, p. 306. Wanganui (4); Pareora.

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Fam. NUCULIDAE.

Nucula nitidula A. Adams; P.Z.S., 1856, p. 51. Petane (2).

Fam. LEpDIDAE.

Leda semiteres Hutton; T.N.Z.1., ix., 1877, p. 598. Waihao; Wanganui. Leda bellula A. Adams; P.Z.S., 1856, p. 49. Wanganui. Poroleda lanceolata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 332. Petane (Type). Malletia australis Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., 111., 1835, p. 471, pl. Ixxviii., figs. 5-10. Waikari; Mount Harris.

Fam. ANOMIIDAE.

Anomia huttoni Suter; Man. of Moll., 1913, p. 848, pl. lvii., fig. 8. (= A. alectus Hutton, non Gray). White Rock River (6); Shrimpton’s, Ngaruroro River. Anomia undata Hutton; T.N.Z.I., xvii., 1885, p. 324 (= A. cytaewm Hutton, non Gray). Petane (Type). Placunanomia incisura Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 34. Pareora. Placunanomia zelandica Gray; Dieffenbach’s ‘‘New Zealand,’’ 1843, p. 260. Te Ngawai; Glenmark.

Fam, ARCIDAE.

Arca (Cucullaria) australis Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvil., 1885, p. 331. White Rock River (Type); Double Corner, Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Arca decussata Sowerby; P.Z.S., 1833, p. 18.

Wanganui (3).

Cucullaea ponderosa Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 27.

Porter River; Broken River.

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Cucullaea alta Sowerby; in Darwin’s ‘‘Geol. Obs. on South America,’’ 1846, p. 252, pl. i, figs. 22, 23. Waikari River (2); Kakahu (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara; Greta. Cucullaea attenuata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 28. Lake Wakatipu; Collingwood. Cucullaea sp. Broken River. . Limopsis zitteli, von. Ihering; Anal. del Mus. Nacion., Buenos Aires, xiv., 1907, p. 235. Pareora (2); also two specimens without locality indicated. Limopsis aurita Broechi; Conch. Foss. Subapenninae, 1814, P2485, pl: ix., fig. 9. Otaio (5); Waitaki (4) ; Mount Harris (3); Waihao (3). Glycymeris cordata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 28. Greta; White Rock River. Glycymeris modesta Angus; P.Z.S., 1879, p. 418, pl. xxxv., fig. 4. Shrimpton’s, Ngaruroro River; Wanganui. Glycymeris laticostata Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol. Zool. 111., 1835, p. 466, pl. Ixxvi.., figs. 1, 2, and 4-6. Porter River; Waikari River. Glycymeris globosa Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 28. Orari River; The Point, Waitaki; Shingly Creek, Lake Heron ; Porter River; Broken River; Kakahu; Lower Gorge of Waipara; Waipara (precise locality not indicated) ; Pareora (2) ; Redeliff Gully, Rakaia. Glycymeris sp. Broken River.

Fam. PHILOBRYIDAE.

Philobrya trigonopsis Hutton; T.N.Z.L, xvii., 1885, p. 324. Petane (Holotype and three paratypes) ; Wanganui.

Fam. MytTIuibDAr.

Mytilus striatus Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii, 1885, p. 332. Broken River (Type).

Modiolus australis Gray; App. to King’s Voy., ii., 1827, p. 477. Porter River.

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Fam. PECTINIDAE.

Pecten beethami Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 31.

White Rock Quarry, North Canterbury; Hawke’s Bay (actual locality not indicated); Mount Somers (2). Pecten delicatulus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 30 (= P.

diffluxa Hutton, l.c., p. 31). Castle Point (right valve) ; Greta (left valve) ; Motunau (left valve) ; Lower Gorge of Waipara; Hundalee. Pecten sectus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 30. Chatham Island (left valve); Chatham Island (right valve) ; Callaghan’s Creek. Pecten (Chlamys) dendyi Hutton; T.N.Z.I. xxxiv., 1902, p. 196, pl. vi. Chatham Islands (Type). Pecten burnetti Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. 11., Pal., 1864, p. 51, plex, hes 2! Castle Hill; Castle Point; Mount Brown. Pecten polymorphoides Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., p. 51, pli xz ie 3: North Island (actual locality not indicated). Pecten williamsoni Zittel; Reise Novara Geol. u., Pal. 1864, poUspl. a fis ta: Weka Pass; Oxford; Waipara (2) ; Curiosity Shop (2). Pecten zelandiae Gray; in Dieffenbach’s ‘‘ New Zealand,’’ 1843, p. 260. : Wanganui (4). Pecten athleta Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. i., Pal., 1864, p. 49,

piece ney Waikari. Pecten triphooki Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. i1., Pal., 1864, p. 52, pl. xis tig

Napier (2); Double Corner; Upper Waitotara. Pecten (Chlamys) Jullii Hutton; T.N.Z.L., xxxvii., 1905, p. 473, pl. xliv., fig. 3. Napier (Type) ; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Pecten semiplicatus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 30. Napier. Pecten hutchinsoni Heetor; Cat. Col. Mus., 1870, p. 183. nom. nud.; Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 31. Oamaru; Broken River; Porter River (2). Pecten accrementus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 31. Oamaru (2).

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Pecten scandulus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 29. Curiosity Shop; Weka Pass (2). Pecten fischeri Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p. 53, plein? fie. 1, 2: Weka Pass. Pecten (Pseudamusium) huttoni Park; T.N.Z.1., xxxvii., 1905, p. 485. Duntroon (Type); Anama; Mount Somers (2); Weka Pass; Kakahu; Curiosity Shop: Pecten (Amusium) zitteli Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 32. Whangape Lake (2). Pecten medius Lamark; Anim. s. vert., vi., 1819, p. 163. Wanganui; Waihao. Another specimen occurs, but the locality is not indicated.

Fam. UIMIDAE.

Lima paucisulcata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 33. Mount Somers; Broken River; Pareora. Lima paleata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 33. Curiosity Shop (2); Lower Gorge of the Waipara. Lima colorata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 33. Pareora (2); Mount Horrible (2). Lima bullata Born; Mus. Cxs. Vindobon., 1780, p. 110, pl. vi., fig. 8. Broken River; Lower Gorge of the Waipara. Lima (Plagiostoma) laevigata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, . 33. iia. Duntroon; Mount Somers (2).

Fam. OSTREIDAE.

Ostrea hyotis Linné; Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 704. Shakespeare Cliff, Wanganui (2).

Ostrea angasi Sowerby ; Conch. Icon., xviii., 1871, pl. xiii., fig. 27. Shrimpton’s, Ngaruroro River (2); Wanganui (3) ; Motunau; Waipara; Kakahu; Waimate.

Ostrea corrugata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 35.

Waihi River. Ostrea wullerstorfii Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, eos, pl: xd. ies G: Waihao.

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Ostrea ingens Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p. 54, pl mii, fie. 3: Napier; Thames River; Camp Creek; Trelissick?. Ostrea nelsoniana Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. 11., Pal., 1864, p. 55, Diskin te Waikari River; Orari; Glenmark; Motunau; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Fam. PINNIDAE.

Atrina zelandica Gray ; Yates’ ‘‘New Zealand,’’ 1835, p. 310. Kakahu (2); Curiosity Shop.

Fam. PERNIDAE. Perna sp. Matapiro, Hawke’s Bay.

Fam, CRASSATELLITIDAE.

Crassatellites obesus A. Adams; P.Z.S., 1852 (1854), p. 90, pl. xvi., fig. 2 (= C. trail Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873. p: 24): Mount Harris; Wharekuri; Mount Horrible; Pareora; Awamoa. Crassatellites amplus Zittel; Voy. Novara, Geol. i1., Pal, 1864, p. 46; pl. 14, fig. 3. Porter River; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Crassatellites attenuatus Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 24. Porter River; Point Hill, Waitaki.

Fam. ASTARTIDAE.

Astarte australis Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 25. Kakahu.

Fam. CARDITIDAE.

Venericardia bollonsi Suter; P. Mal. Soe. vii., 1907, p. 211, pl. xviii., figs. 8, 86. Petane (3).

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Venericardia difficilis Deshayes; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1852 (1854), p. 103, pl. xvii., figs. 16, 17.

Tuffs below limestone, Kakanui (2); Shakespeare Cliff, Wanganui (2).

Venericardia australis Lamarck; Anim. sans. Vert., 1818, p. 610. (= Venericardia awamoaensis Harris; for Venericardia intermedia Hutt., which, however, is V. australis Lamarck, identified by Suter after type specimen).

Wanganui; Shepherd’s Hut, Waipara; Lower Gorge of Waipara; Porter River (6); Mount Harris (3); Orari (2).

Cardita calyculata Linné; Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 692. Wanganui (2).

Fam. LUCINIDAE.

Loripes concinna Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 328. Wanganui (Type); White Rock River. Loripes laminata Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvi., 1885, p. 331. White Rock River (Type). Divaricella cumingi A. Adams and Angas; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1863, p. 426, pl. xxxvii., fig. 20. Wanganui; Porter River; Pareora.

Fam. DIPLODONTIDAE.

Diplodonta zelandica Gray ; Yates’ ‘* New Zealand,’’ 1835, p. 309. Kakanui. Diplodonta globularis Lamark; Anim. sans. Vert., v., 1818, p. 544. Wanganui (2). Diplodonta ampla Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 323. Wanganui (Type).

Fam. LEPTONIDAE.

Neolepton effossum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 323. Petane (Type).

Neolepton robustum Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii. 1885. p. 323. Petane (Type).

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Fam. TELLINIDAE.

Tellina eugonia Suter (= T. angulata Hutton) ; T.N.Z.1., xvii, 1885, p. 322. Wanganui (Type).

Fam. SEMELIDAE.

Leptomya lintea Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 67. Wanganui (Type).

Fam. MActTRIDAet.

Mactra attenuata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 18. Porter River (2). Mactra scalpellum Reeve; Conch. Icon., vili., 1854, pl. xix., fig. 106. Petane (4); Matapiro, Hawke’s Bay; Wanganui (3). Mactra ovata Gray; in Dieffenbach’s N.Z., 1843, p. 251. Petane (Holotype and five paratypes of M. lavata Hutton.) Mactra chrydaea Suter; T.N.Z.1., xliii., 1911, p. 596, pl. xxxi. Turangarere (Metatype) ; Greta. Mactra (Mactroderma) crassa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 332. Wanganui (Holotype and one paratype). Spisula ordinaria E. A. Smith; Pub. Mal. Soc., 11., 1898, p. 23, fig. 7 in text. Wanganui. Lutraria solida Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 19. Ngaruroro, Hawke’s Bay. Zenatia acinaces Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol. i1., 1835, p. 545, pl. Ixxxiil., figs. 5, 6. Wanganui (2).

Fam. VENERIDAE.

Chione crassa Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., i1i., 1835, p. 525, pl. Ixxxiv., fig. 7-8. Wanganui (4); Napier; Motunau; Point Hill, Waitaki. Chione meridionalis Sowerby; in Darwin’s ‘‘Geol. Obs. in S. America,’’ 1846, p. 250, pl. ii, fig. 13. Waikari (2); Greta; White Rock River.

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Chione yatei Gray; Yates’ ‘‘New Zealand,’’ 1885, p. 309. Porter River.

Chione speighti Suter; T.N.Z.I., xlv., 1913, p. 296;-pl. xiv. Lower Waipara Gorge (Holotype and one paratype. Another specimen from the same locality shows the hinge.

Chione stutchburyt Gray ; in Wood’s ‘Index Tert..’’suppl., 1828,

fig. 4; Yates’ ‘‘N.Z.,’’ 1835, p. 308. Lower Gorge of Waipara (2).

Chione acuminata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll.. 1873, p. 21. Pareora (2).

Paphia curta Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 22.

The Point, Waitaki; Porter River (5).

Dosiiia magna Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 22.

Porter River (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara (2); Kakahu.

Dosima greyi Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., pt. 2, 1864,

p45) pl xv., fie. 1. Lower Gorge of Waipara; Greta (2). Another specimen, locality not indicated.

Dosinia sub-rosea Gray; in Yates’ ‘‘New Zealand,.’’ 1835, p. 309. Motunau (3); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Dosima lambata Gould; U.S. Expl. Expd., xii., 1850, p. 422,

Atlas, fig. 530. Wanganui (3); Pareora (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Cytherea sub-sulcata Suter (= Venus sulcata Hutton) ; Proc.

Linn. Soc., N.S.W. (2), i., 1887, p. 226. Shrimpton’s, Ngaruroro River (Idiotype) ; Motunau.

Cytherea oblonga Hanley ; Wood’s Index Tert., suppl., 1828. Castle Point, Wellington.

Cytherea enyst Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 21.

Porter River (2).

Macrocallista assimilis Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll, 1873, p. 21. Porter River (2); Wanganui; Point Hill, Waitaki.

Macrocallista multistriata Sowerby; Thes. Coneh., ii., 1851,

p. 628, pl. exxxvi., fig. 177. Motunau (2); Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Meretrix sp.

Clent Hills Station.

Fam. CARDImDAe. Cardium spatiosum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll. 1873, p. 23. Broken River; Porter River; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Cardium huttoni von. thering; Anal. del Mais. Buenos Aires, xiv., 1907, p. 291 (= C. multiradiatum Hutton; not of Sowerby). Double Corner, Lower Gorge of Waipara.

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Cardium patulum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 23. Porter River; Lower Gorge of Waipara.

Cardium (Fragum) sp. Weka Pass Stone; Waikari Valley.

Hemicardium sp.? Ormond, Poverty Bay.

Protocardium serum Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll, 1873, p. 23. Broken River.

Fam. PSAMMOBIIDAE. Psammobia lineolata Gray ; Yates’ ‘‘New Zealand,’’ 1835, p. 309. Wanganui; Waitaki (2). Soletellina nitida Gray; Dieffenbach’s ‘‘New Zealand,’’ 1843, p. 253. Pareora.

Fam. CorBuLIDAE. Corbula pumila Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 330. White Rock River (Type). Corbula macilenta Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 18. Wanganui (3). Corbula canaliculata Hutton (= C. sulcata Hutton) ; T.N.Z.L, 1x. 18d), pe OG. PL. xVie, ne. 14. Mount Harris (Lectotype). Corbula humerosa Hutton; T.N.Z.1., xvii., 1885, p. 330. White Rock River (Type).

Fam. SAXICAVIDAE. Panopea zelandica Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., i11., 1835, p. 547, pl. Ixxxii., figs. 7-9. Watakuhi, Bay of Islands; Pareora; Motunau.

Panopea orbita Hutton; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., xh., 1888, p. 551 (= P. plicata Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., p. 17). Pareora; Mount Harris; Greta; Lower Gorge of Waipara. Panopea worthingtoni Hutton; Cat. Tert. Moll., 1873, p. 17.

Lake Wakatipu (2).

Fam. TEREDINIDAE.

Teredo heaphyi Zittel; Reise Novara, Geol. ii., Pal., 1864, p. 45, pl. xiv., fig. 4 (= Cladopora directa Hutton; T.N.Z.L., ix., 1877, p: 597; pL. xvi.,, fie. 13).

Waihao; Te Ngawai; Curiosity Shop; White Water River, Trelissick.

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Fam, THRACUDAE.

Thracia vitrea Hutton; Cat. Mar. Moll., 1873, p. 61. Wanganui.

Fam. MYocHAMIDAR.

Myodora novae-zealandiae E. A. Smith; Proc. Zool. Soc., 1880, p. 064, pl. ny hes os Wanganui. Myodora subrostrata E. A. Smith; Proce. Zool. Soc., 1880, p. 584 pin: iise6: Awamoa (5). Myodora bolton E. A. Smith; Proe. Zool. Soc., 1880, p. 585, pl. -liui., fig:2: Matapiro, Hawke’s Bay. Myodora antipodum E, A. Smith; Proce. Zool. Soc., 1880, p. 585, pL lim. fey 7 Wanganui. Myodora striata Quoy and Gaimard; Voy. Astrol., ii., 1835, p, 037, pl. xxx ie, 10. Wanganui (2). Pholadomya sp.? Porter River.

Fam. CHAMOSTREIDAE.

Chama huttoni Hector; Outline of the Geology of N. Zealand, 1886, p. 50, fig. 7, no. 7. Castle Point, Wellington. Chamostrea albida Lamarck; Anim. sans Vert., ed. 2, vi., 1819 p. 96: Porter River; Wanganui.

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CEPHALOPODA.

Fam. NAUTILIDAE. Aturia aturi var. australis McCoy; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3,

mee IS61; ps 192. Double Corner, Lower Gorge of Waipara; Weka Pass.

Fam. BELEMNITIDAE. Belemmtes lindsayi Hector. Waitaki Valley (7). The status of this species is, at the request of Professor Park. being considered by Dr. F. A. Bather.

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Bese te TIONS OF TWO NEW MARINE SHELLS

FROM

NEW ZEALAND

By HENRY SUTER.

Figures 1 and 2.

Having lately overhauled and rearranged the collection of recent mollusca in the Canterbury Museum, I found two unnamed marine species, which prove to be new to science. They are described and figured below :—

SIPHONIUM PLANATUM sp. Nov.

Shell very small, adherent planorbi- form, sinistral, the lower volutions somewhat irregular, the upper ones tS eeealy wound up, the apex subcentral. Sculpture: the whorls are distinctly angled, and ornamented with close sinuous transverse ridges. Colour, white.

med Whorls 8 to 10, narrow. Suture well marked. Aperture triangular or quadrangular, without internal armature. Operculum not seen.

Dimensions —Diameter maj. 10 mm., min. 8°59; height 4 mm.; diameter of aperture 1-2 mm. (Holotype).—Diameter maj. 8:5 mm., min. 8 mm.; height 5 mm.; diameter of aperture { mm. (Paratype).

Holotype and 1 paratype in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.

Hab.—Kapiti Island.

Remarks—tThis species very much resembles S. politum Daudin, from the Indian Ocean!’. Quite recently it has been discovered in the Miocene of the Trelissick Basin, and at Oamaru.

(17) Man. Coneh (1), viii., 1886, pl. liv., fig. 85.

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TROPHON VIRGINALIS sp. DOV.

Shell rather small, white, fusiforr distant rounded varices, and close spiral Sculpture consisting of rounded, varices, 5 on the body-whorl, 9° penultimate whorl, mostly discontinuc the whorls; interspaces with close an axial riblets ; spiral sculpture formed te cords, 12 on the penultimate whorl, p over the varices; slightly pate 3 intersection with ‘the axial riblets; somet with a fine thread intercalated between cinguli. Colour, white, semi-transparent.

. Spire narrowly conical, about the same height _ WEF as the aperture with canal. Protocone missing. Whorls about 5, convex, somewhat flattened below th« suture, the body-whor] slightly ventricose, contracted at the | Suture not much impressed. Aperture subvertical, oval, above, produced below into a short open canal, which is ‘slight eee turned backwards and to the left. Outer lip sharp, strengthened _ - on the outside by a varix, convex above, but slightly cone: eae towards the canal. Columella straight, lightly truncated below. . aS as Inner lip thin, broadly spread over the body, free at its lower — part, leaving a narrow chink between it and the cea siphonal fasciole. Operculum unknown.

Dimensions —Height, 16 mm.; diameter, 7 mm.; angle 0 of spire, 38°. a

Holotype in the Canterbury Museum, Christchureh. a

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