APPENDIX
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APPENDIX.
British Museum, July 1835.
DEAR SIR,
The Box of Shells which were collected by you on the Eastern Coast of New Zealand having been sent to the National Collection by the Officers of the Church Missionary Society, I hasten, at your request, to give you a short account of them. On examination, they proved exceedingly interesting, many of the species being quite new to science: which is the more remarkable, as the French Naturalists, who accompanied the late Voyages of Discovery, have been paying considerable attention to the animals, and especially to the shells, of that country. The greater part of them were desiderata to our Collection; and most of the rest were useful in making up the series of those specimens that were previously in the Collection. Yours most truly,
JOHN EDW. GRAY.
To the Rev. W. YATE.
CATALOGUE OF SHELLS
COLLECTED ON THE EAST COAST OF NEW ZEALAND, BY THE REV. W. YATE.
Ten of the species were brought to this country by Captain COOK, from his Voyages round the World; and were figured by Martyn, in his work on the Shells of the Pacific; viz.
1. Valuta Pacific .
2. Purpura Haustrum . (LAM.)
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CATALOGUE OF SHELLS COLLECTED IN NEW ZEALAND
3. Purpura testudinea . (LAH.)
4. ------------ maculata .
5. Struthiolaria crenulata . (LAM.)
6. ---------------- nodosa . (LAM.)
7. Turbo Smaragdus .
8. Trochus granulatus .
9. Imperator imperialis .
Trochus imperialis . (GMEL.)
10. Amphibola avellana . (SCHUM.)
Ampullacea avellana . (QuoY.)
Ampullaria avellana . (LAM.)
Others have been brought to this country by whalers which have touched at the Islands; or are also found in other parts of the Pacific Ocean:
11. Sulla Australis . (GRAY.) King's Voyage to New Holland.
12. Calyptraea dilatata . (SOWERBY.)
13. Monodonta reticularis .
Trochus reticularis . (GRAY.) Wood's Supp. f. 21.
Trochus Zelandica . (QuoY.)
14. Venus Stutchburii . (GHAY.) Wood's Supp. f. 4.
Venus crassicostatus . (QuoY.)
Five have been lately described and figured by M. Quoy, in the Atlas which is published to figure the animals discovered in the voyage of the Astrolabe:
15. Fusus Zelandicus . (QuOY.) 1. c. to 34, f. 4, 5.
16. Mactra elongata . (Quoy.)
17. Tellina lactea . (QuoY.)
18. Venus intermedia . (QuoY.)
19. Pectunculus ovalis . (QuOY.)
The remainder appear to be new to science: I have therefore added a short specific description of each of them:
20. Monodonta subrostata , N. s. --Shell conical, suborbicular, solid, black, with close wavy longitudinal yellow lines; spire short, whorles five, last large rounded, hinder part with three to six spiral keels, axis imperforated, throat smooth and silvery.
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CATALOGUE OF SHELLS COLLECTED IN NEW ZEALAND
21. Polyodonta elegans , x. s. --Shell conical, white, purple-dotted; whorles flat, with an elevated upper edge, and six or seven spiral rows of beads; base flat, closely headed, and purple-dotted; umbilicus conical, deep smooth, opake white.
22. Arthemis subrosea , N. S. --Shell orbicular, rather convex, opake white, rosy purple on the umbones, with close regular minute concentric grooves, crossed by a few very obscure radiating striae; lunule short cordate; inside white, disk opake. --Var. Lunule rather smaller. --Inhab. New Zealand.
23. Dosina Zelandica , N. s. --Shell ovate, cordate, ventricose, solid, brown with close regular slightly elevated concentric laminae, which are higher at each end; lunule large, ovate-- cordate; inside dead white; hinge margin moderate; hinder slope simple, without any flat shelving space on the left valve. Inhab. New Zealand. Very like D. rugosa , but the ridges are thinner, closer, the shell more oblong, the hinge margin thinner, and the lunule much longer and narrower in proportion. --The Dosinae have a small anterior additional tooth on the hinge margin. Lamarck refers them to Venus: they are intermediate between Venus and Cytherea.
24. Lucina Zelandica , N. s. --Shell suborbicular, rather compressed, rather solid, opake white, smooth, very slightly concentrically striated, and covered with a thin smooth periostraca. Inhab. New Zealand. Like L. lactea , but more compressed and opake. (Ligament linear, external, marginal.)
25. Venus Yatei , N. s. --Shell ovate, rather truncated behind, nolid, brown, with rather distant thin concentric laminae, which are higher behind and before, and waved; hinder (lope depressed, lozenge-shaped; lunule laminar. Inhab. New Zealand. Like Venus plicata , but rather shorter; concentric plates higher, waved, and torn on the edge.
26. Psammobia lineolata , n. s. --Shell oblong, transverse, compressed, obliquely truncated behind, purplish rosy, with rather darker concentric belts and very thin anastomosing, radiating lines. Inhab. New Zealand.
27. Pholas similis , N. s. --Shell oblong, rather elongate, acute in front, tapering behind, with rather close concentric laminae; the anterior part with rather close and radiating groves; hinge
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CATALOGUE OF SHELLS COLLECTED IN NEW ZEALAND
margin reflexed, simple beneath; dorsal plate ---- ? Very like Pholas parvus, but larger, broader, and more acute in front.
28. Pinna Zelandica , N. s. -- Shell triangular, elongate, blackish; inside purplish pearly; valves convex, with rather close longitudinal ribs, armed with close, short, semi-cylindrical, hollow spines. -- Differs from P. squamosa, in being smaller, black, and in the end being more truncate.
29. Pecten laticostata , N. s. --Shell inequivalve, with 16-18 radiating ribs, purplish white; right valve convex, ribs smooth, the larger one depressed with one or two interrupted longitudinal grooves; left valve rather concave, smoothish, purple brown, and purple near the umbo, the ribs distant, narrow. -- Inhab. New Zealand.
