NASSA.— Plate XI. 



A solid, white shell, finely prickly -tubercled through- 

 out, with a very thick callosity, reaching nearly to the 

 spire. 



Species 73. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Nassa muricata. Nass. iestd ovato-globosd, lutescente, 

 violaceo-fusco tbictd, mimeato-iwclosd, nodis distanti- 

 bus, erectls ; aperturd pand, columella labroqiie iub- 

 callosis. 



The prickly Nassa. Shell ovately globose, yellowish, 

 tinged with violet-brown, prickly nodose, nodules 



rather distant, erect; aperture small, lip and c(j1u- 



mella rather callous. 

 Buccinum murlcatum, Quoy and Gaimard, Zool. Voy. de 



I'Astrolabe, vol. ii. p. 450. pi. 32. f. 32, 33. 

 Hai. New Ireland. 



Prickly uoduled like the preceding species, but destitute 

 of any spreading callosity. 



Fig. 74. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 The specimen here figured proves to be a variety of A^. 

 ravida. Fig. 68, of rather stouter growth and finer sculp- 

 ture, from Malacca. 



