606 EDGAR A. SMITH. 
Family BUCCINIDAE. 
89. Engina mendicaria, Lamarck (/icinula mendicaria, Reeve, 37, /1/.) XI. 
90. Engina bonasia, Martens (Plicatella (Peristernia) bonasia, Martens, 26). IX. 
91. Engina rawsoni, Melvill (Sistrum rawsoni, Melvill, 27,a). V. 
The columella is described as ‘“‘simplice,” but all the specimens examined, including the type, 
exhibit a thin circumscribed callosity, with a small transverse tubercle at the upper end, and a 
few anteriorly. All also have a pale peripheral zone, and some of the costae are whitish. In 
one of the Maldive specimens, white is the predominating tint; on the contrary, a second example 
is almost entirely of a rich brown colour, excepting the whitish zone round the middle of the 
body-whorl, which is rather more contracted and produced anteriorly than usual, the canal, in 
consequence, appearing a little longer. 
92. Phos roseatus, Hinds, 40,3, ///. II, IV, V, VI, VII. 
93. Phos textilis, A. Adams, 40,,//Z. V, XIII. 
The specimens from the above localities are considerably smaller than the type from the 
Philippine Islands but do not offer any tangible differences in other respects. The protoconch is 
large and consists of three smooth glossy convex yellowish whorls. The normal volutions may vary 
from four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half. 
Family NASSIDAE. 
94. Wassa bifaria, Baird, var. 5,39, 7 II, IV, V, VII, X. 
The Maldive specimens belong to the same variety as those from the Andaman Islands which 
I recorded and figured at the above reference. Tryon in his absurd craze for “lumping” considered 
this species “a stumpy variety” of .V. hirta, Kiener, a species with which it has in faet but 
slight resemblance, differing in size, colour and sculpture. 
95. INassa marratii, Smith, 39,¢,f XI. 
Two specimens were obtained agreeing with the type excepting in their larger size, being 
19 mm. in length, like the Andaman examples figured in the P. ZS. 
96. INassa monile, Kiener, 37,V///. XI. 
97. INassa stigmaria, A. Adams, 37,V///. V, XII, XV. 
98. Wassa echinata, A. Adams, 37,VJ///. IX, X, XII, XV. 
99. INassa glans, Linn. 37,V///._ III. 
100. Nassa granifera, Kiener, 37,V///. IV, VIII, X, XIII, XV. 
101. Nassa maldivensis, n. sp. (Pl. XX XV. figs. 6—8). VIII, IX, XII. 
Testa WV. alyidae’ similis, sed concolor, albida, anfractu ultimo majori; lirae aperturae circiter 
12 et columellae rugae validae. Longit. 25mm., diam. 15. Apertura cum labro 15 longa, 7 lata. 
5 fo} ? fn) 
var. a. VII. Testa minor, anfractu ultimo costato, Longit. 20 mm., diam. 11. 
Shell ovate, turreted, white; whorls 64 gradate, upper ones costate, the costae nodose at the 
upper end through being traversed by a depression or groove, gradually dying out so that the 
1 Nassa algida, Reeve, Con. Icon, vol. vit. figs. 1454, b. 
