Art. XLI.—Notice of the Occurrence of Vitrina milligani in New Zealand. By T. W. Kirk, Assistant in the Colonial Museum. [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21st February, 1880.] Up to the present time only two species of Vitrina have been recorded as indigenous to New Zealand.* See Manual of New Zealand Mollusca, p. 12. I have now to notice the discovery of a third; a large, highly polished, and really beautiful species. Vitrina milligani, Pfr. Shell depressly-ovate, rather solid, polished, very glossy, translucent, olive-black; spire convex; whorls three, second convex, last depressly-rounded; aperture more oblique than diagonal, lunately rounded-oval, within coloured as without; peristome simple; right margin dilated forwards, anterior regularly and columellar slightly arched. (Petterd). Diameter, greatest, ·9 inch; least, ·6; height, ·4; aperture, ·6 inch long, ·4 broad.—South Karori (T. W. K.)
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 12, 1879, Page 307
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