36 JAPANESE M0LLUSK8, NASSID^E. 



Nassa (Hima) japonica (A. Ad.) Lischke. P. Z. S., 1851, p. 110; Lischke, J. M. 

 C, III, i>. H7, pi. 2, f. 20-23. y. tenuis Smith. Ann. Mag., 1875, p. 42.3; P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 211. 



Cape Shima, 18 fms. ; Goza and Ooshima Harbors ; between 

 Nippon and Shikoku (St. John); Bay of Yedo (Lischke); Seto-Uchi^ 

 Uraga, Kino-o-Shiraa, Sado (A. Ad.). 



Nassa (Hima) dominula Tap.-Can. Viag. Magenta, p. 19, pi. 1, f. 17. (Syn. : N^ 



acutideniata Smith, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 212, pi. 20, f. 46). 



Yokohama (Magenta) ; Goto Is. (St. John). 

 Nassa (Hima) luteola Smith. P. Z. S., 1879, p. 212, pi. 20, f. 47. 



Goto Is. (St. John). 



Nassa (Hima) fraterculus Dkr. Moll. Jap., p. 17, pi. 1, f. 15. J. M. C, II, pi. iv, 

 f. 7, 8. 



Isi, Kamakura, Tokyo Harbor (Stearns) ; Goto Is. (St. John) ;. 

 Tatiyama, Hakodadi, Simoda, Nagasaki (Ad.) ; Deshima (Nuhn). 

 Nassa (Hima) plebecula Gld. Otia Couch., p. 128. 



Ooshima (Stimpsom); considered by Lischke a synonym of N. 

 fraterculus.. 



Nassa mustelina Gld. Otia Conch., p. 127. 



Ooshima Coast, 2 fathoms ; (Stimp.), 

 Nassa spurca Gould. Ann. Mag., 1875, p. 423 ; Otia, p. 129. 



Ooshima and Yamada Harb., 7-8 fath., (St. John). 



Is the Japanese shell really Gould's species? 

 Nassa dermestina Gld. Proc. Best. Soc. vii, p. 331 ; Otia, p. 128. 



Hakodate (Lischke, J. M. C, 1, p. 60) ; Kikaia (Stimp.). 



Nassa (Zeuxis) siquijorensis A. Adams. C. Icon., f. 53 ; P. Z. S., 1879, p. 210, pi. 

 20, f. 45, 45a. 



Off Kobe, 8 to 14 fath., mud (Chall.) ; Seto-Uchi, Tsaulian, Tomo 

 (Ad.) ; E. of Kii (St. John). 



Nassa (Zeuxis) crenulata Brugiere. Challenger Gastrop, 1873-fi. XV, p. 183 ; 

 Reeve. Conch. Icon., VIII, pi. 1, f. 2. 



Off Kobe, 8 fms. (Challenger). 

 Nassa (Zeuxis) varioifera A. Ad. C. Icon., f. 118. 



Isi, Kamakura (Stearns) ;^Tsaulian^(Ad.) ; South of Corea (St. 

 John). 



Stearns' shells are a small form which may be called var. frater- 

 minor, characterized by the shell having only one varix which is 

 near the end of the penultimate whorl, and otherwise resembling iV. 



