NERITA. 



Plate XIV. 



Species 62. (Fig. a to /■, Mus. Cuming.) 



Neuita Rumphii. Ner. testa oblongo-globosd, crasdus- 

 culli, politd, spird oltiise impressd, aiifmctibus siihan- 

 gristis, convexis, concentrice striatis, labro intus in- 

 crassato, vix cremdato, columella concavo-pland, in- 

 terdmn paucis gramdis, minute denticulatd, dentibus 

 interdmn obsoletis ; colore varid. 



lluMPHius' Nerite. Shell oblong-globose, rather thick, 

 polished, spii'e obtusely impressed, whorls rather 

 narrow, convex, concentrically striated, lip thickened 

 inwardly, scarcely crenulated, columella concavely 

 flattened, sometimes with a few granules, minutely 

 toothed, teeth sometimes obsolete ; colour various. 



Recluz, Eevue Zool. Soc. Cuvierienne, 1841, p. 147. 

 Neriia poUta pars, Chemnitz. 



Hah. Philippine Islands ; Cuming. 



So extremely variable is this species in its painting, that 



it has been thought necessary to devote a plate to a selec- 

 tion of its most characteristic states. Fig. a, a uniform 

 bright orange ; fig. i, ivory-white, with a broad band of 

 interrupted dark ash-black blotches ; fig. c, encircled with 

 three rose bands upon a greyish-white ground, sprinkled 

 with minute black and white dots ; fig. d, sprinkled with 

 Ijlack white-splashed dots upon an olive-grey ground ; 

 fig. (', encircled with four bright orange bands, sprinkled 

 with black dots upon a bright green ground ; fig./i clouded 

 with crimson bauds and blotches upon a dark oliv^-gi-ey 

 ground, freckled in the interstices with black dots, here 

 and there splashed with white; fig. ^, grey and white, 

 freckled with broad interrupted bands of light orange- 

 fawn blotches ; fig. h, flesh-pink, encircled with yeUowish- 

 white stripes ; fig. /', dark grey, freckled with black and 

 white-splashed dots, encircled round the middle with a 

 light band ; fig. k, regularly encircled with broad equal 

 clearly defined l)ands of black and white. 



AuOTst, 1855. 



