Pisania antarctica, Reeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 30 (1845); Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 72, f. 228 [not Buccinum antarcticum, Philippi, 1868]. Buccinum campbelli, Filhol, Comptes Rendus, xci. (1880), p. 1094. Hab. Banks Peninsula. Auckland Islands and Campbell Island. Found also at the Falkland Islands. Interior purplish brown; columella and outer lip white. The operculum and dentition are unknown. This species is perhaps the same as Fusus rufa, Homb. and Jacq. Reeve's figure is very bad. Sub-fam. Buccininæ. Foot simple; eyes variously placed. Shell ovate, the lip thin; aperture with a short oblique notch. Genus Cominella, Gray. Animal with a long siphon and eyes on the sides of the tentacles. Lateral teeth with two cusps; central with three. Operculum ovate, with the nucleus apical. Shell with a groove at the suture, and a posterior canal. Cominella maculata, Martyn, Univ. Conch., Buccinum, pl. 49 (1784); Reeve, Conch. Icon., Buccinum, f. 16; Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 81, f. 421. Buccinum turgidum, Gmelin (after Solander). B. testudineum, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., pl. 30, f. 12; Tryon, l.c., iii., pl. 81, f. 422. Buccinum melo, Lesson, Ann. des Sci. Nat., 1840. Hab. Auckland. Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands. Shell turgid; yellowish gray with spiral rows of brown spots; columella yellow. The operculum and dentition are figured in the Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv., pl. xiii., f. L. The operculum is also figured by Adams in the Gen. of Moll.; and the dentition by Troschel, ii., taf. viii., f. 3. Cominella maculosa, Martyn, Univ. Conch., Buccinum, pl. 8 (1784); Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 81, f. 423 [not P. maculosa, Lamarck]. Buccinum testudinea, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool. ii., pl. 30, f. 8 to 11; Gray, Figs. Moll. Anim., i., pl. 14, f. 1 and 3 [not of Chemnitz]. Hab. Bay of Islands to Banks Peninsula. Ash-grey with twelve or thirteen spiral or interrupted dark bands; columella brownish purple. Much narrower than the last species. The operculum is figured by Quoy; the dentition in the Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv., pl. xiii., f. M.; and by Hogg in the Trans. Roy. Micro. Soc., 1868 (species doubtful). Cominella testudinea, Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., Buccinum, x., f. 1454 (1788); Reeve, Conch. Icon., f. 66; Tryon, Man. Conch., iii., pl. 80, f. 414. B. cataracta, Chemnitz, l.c., x., f. 1455; Tryon, l.c., iii., pl. 80, f. 415. Hab. Auckland. Chatham Islands.