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synonyms should ])rol»n))ly he iiddod .V. corjitili'ntn, C. B. Ad. 



(unlijJiired), from r:in:un:i. 



N. ABY8S1C0LA, A. Ad. PI. 15, fig. 255. 



Dirty white, sliohtly l)ead-ninr(iinod at tlic sutures. 



Length, -oS inch. 



Me of Boll ol, PliHippin.e», in clayey gioiind, at 



sixty fathoms— Cuming. 

 I do not know tliis species. 



N. PAUPERA, Gould. IM. 15, figs. 24G-250. 



Elevated, narrow, whorls rounded, closely eostate, and with 

 fine revolving lines ; aperture small, rounded. AVliite or yellowish, 

 sometimes fasciated with brown, or marbled, or with the loAver 

 half of the body-whorl brown. Length, •35-"5 inch. 



Japan, Australia, Central Polynesia. 



Differs from the Xassio preceding it in this group by its pupi- 

 form shape and comparatively small body-whorl and month. 

 The spire is sometimes much exserted, causing very deep 

 sutures. The variable j^ainting, etc., has caused a very large 

 synonymy, namely — N. plebccula^ (jould (unfigured), N. micros- 

 toma^ Pease (fig. 2-lT), N. ynifaHcinla and X. turricula^ Pease 

 MS., N. haJleata^ Pease (fig. 248), A'. (Irrmestina, Gould (nn- 

 figured). X. frafri-riijiis. Duukor (fig. 240), is a stouter form, 

 which may possibly be identical Avith the next species. A^. 

 Snmoevsis, Dunkei' AI8., and A', hiteola, E. A. Smith (fig. 250), 

 from Japan, descril)ed from a single dead specimen, are veiy 

 ]»robably synonyms. 



X. TRiNGA, Souverbie. PI. 15, figs, 251, 252. 



Yellowish brown, sometimes mottled with chestnut, and 



spotted on the varix of the lip. 



New Caledonia, S. AxcstraUa. 

 With this I unite A^. compactn, Angas, of which I am able to 

 give a figure from a specimen (fig. 252) ; it is the Australian rep- 

 resentative of the European A^. incrassata. 



N. DENTICULATA, A. Ad. PI. 15, fig. 254. 



Yellowish, banded and blotched with chestnut. 



Length, '9 inch. 



Mediterranean Sea. 

 A rare form, confounded by several authors with A''. cJathrata. 

 Born {r— limatn. Auct.). 



