110 NASSlNiE. 



Sub-geu. ZEMiRAj H. and A. Adams. 

 Umbilicus moderate ; outer lip with a tooth near the fore part. 



australis, Sow. 



Genus COMINELLA, Gray. 



Shell buceiniform, marked or spotted, covered with an 

 epidermis ; spire short, acute, last whorl large, ventricose, 

 with a posterior depressed groove at the suture, producing 

 a contraction at the hind part of the outer lip. 



Ex. C. virgata, H. and A. Adams, pi. 11, fig. 6. Oper- 

 culum, C. maculata, Martini, fig. 6, a, 6, h. Shell, C. lim- 

 bosa, Lamarck, fig. 6, c. 



These shells have usually been confounded with Purpura 

 and Buccinum ; the operculum, however, will distinguish 

 them from the former, and the position of the eyes from 

 the latter. 



Species of Cominella. 



acutinodosa, Reeve, limbosa, Lam. 



alveolata, Kien. linearis, Reeve. 



Anglicana, Mai't. lineolata, Lam. 



bimucronata, Reeve. _ livida, Reeve, 



citrina, Reeve. maculata, Mart. 



costata, Quoy and Gaim. nassoides, Reeve. 



crassa, Adams. papyracea, Bruy. 



cyanea, Gray. pluriannulata, Reeve. 



Delalandii, Kien. Quoyi, Kien. 



dubia, Erauss. testudinea, Mart. 



eburnea. Reeve. tigrina, Kien. 



Grateloupiana, Petit. ustulata, Reeve. 



glaiidiformis, Reeve. ' virgata, H. and A. Adams 



hinnulus, Adams and Reeve. (lineolata, Quoy and Gaim.). 

 lagenaria, Lam. 



