MERGE.— Plate III. 



Species 12. (Fig. a, b, c, Mus. Cuming.) 



Mekoe hians. Mer. tesld siibaiiguste ovaid, conspicue 

 iumida, subcequilaterali, latere anlico loiiffiore, alLidd, 

 livido-purpiireo phts minus iinctd ant aiujtdato-jiam- 

 matd, lavigald, epideniiide ieimi corned parlim indutd. 



The gaping MERoii. Shell rather naiTowly ovate, con- 

 spicuously tumid, nearly equilatei'al, anterior side the 

 longer, whitish, more or less stained or angularly 



flamed with livid-purple, smooth, partially covered 

 with a thin horny epidermis. 

 Ilab. Bombay. 



The three specimens here figured occur, together with a 

 few others, in Mr. Cuming's cabinet, with the name j\l. 

 l/laus in manuscript. They run very closely into the China 

 M. Solinidri, but are all of the sanu- peculiarly tundd n.ii- 

 rowly ovate form. 



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