The following list contains those vertebrata and mollusea that I know from personal [gap — reason: delete] sent to the Museum, to live in. Otago.^* There are in addition several species of shells in the Museum that have not yet been determined. For many of the corrections in the names of the shells, I am indebted [gap — reason: illegible] paper called "Remarks on certain shells in F. W. Hutton’s catalogue of the Marine Mollusea of New Zealand," by E. von Martens, which is not yet published, but which the Hon. W. Mantell has kindly allow me to read. O.M. after a name means that the species is represented in the Otago Museum; and in the list of mollusea C.M.M., stands for the "Catalogue of the Marine Mollusea of New Zealand."