NASSA.— Plate V. 



pyramidal, thick, very solid, bluish-ash, si)aringly 

 stained and blotched with yellow and brown ; whorls 

 Hatly slanting, slightly indented and rudely irregu- 

 larly plaited round the upper part, interstices ob- 

 scurely finely cancellated ; aperture small, columella 

 very callous, callosity shortly recurved, lip simple, in- 

 terior smooth, purple-brown. 



A. Adams, Pro. Zool. Soc. March 1851. 



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A heavy solid species of a peculiar pyramidal form, very 

 rudely and ii-regularly sculptured. 



Species 32. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Nassa distoeta. Nass. testa acmninato-conicu, soUdd, 

 cc^ndescente-cinered, Inteo fuscoque plus minus tinctd 

 et obsolete fasciatd ; spird elevatd, mifractihiis juxia 

 siiluras suhcontractis, granatis, deiiide tenidpUcatis ; 

 aperturd pand, colmnelld dense callosd, labro shnpUci, 

 faiice tenuiUratd. 



The distorted Nassa. Shellacuminately conical, solid, 

 bluish-ash, more or less stained and obsoletely banded 

 with yellow and brown ; spire raised, whorls slightly 

 contracted and granuled next the sutures, then thinly 

 plaited ; aperture small, columella thickly callous, lip 

 simple, interior thinly ridged. 



A. Adams, Pro. Zool. Soc. March 1851. 

 Ilai. ? 



Of the same peculiar type as the preceding species, dis- 

 tinguished by a delicate sculpture of thin longitudinal 

 plaits, with a gmiule corresponding to each next the 

 sutures. 



Species 33. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Nassa oenata. Nass. testa ovato-conicd, basi sulcatd el 

 conlortd, spird acutd, luteo-alhd, violasceiite-rufo luti- 

 zouatd; (mfractibus coiwexis, longiludiiinliter couceu- 

 Irice lubercnlato-plicatis, inlerstiliis strialo-canceltatis; 

 apertiird parvinsculd, tenue corruyato-lam.inatd, labro 

 crassissime varicoso, fauce breviliratd. 



The ornate Nassa. Shell ovately conical, grooved and 

 twisted at the base, spire sharp,yellowish-white, broad- 

 zoned with violet-red ; whorls convex, longitudinally 

 concentrically tubercle-plaited, interstices striately 

 cancellated ; aperture rather small, thinly wrinkled 

 laminated, lip very thickly varicose, interior .short- 

 ridged. 



Kiener, Icon. coq. vivantes, p. 80. pi. 21. f. S3. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



A characteristic species, belonging to the group of tlic 

 genus bordering on Triton. 



