NASSA.— Plate XXVI. 



Species 176. (Mus. Cuming.) 



^Nassa cinctella. Nass. testa ovato-conicd, albidd, li- 

 neis fuscis cinctd, longitudinaliter valde plicatd, plicis 

 disiantibus, lirin tramversis albis, interditiis fuscis, 

 ornatd ; columelld corrugatd, vix callosd, labro extus 

 varicoso, intus valde lirato. 

 The finely girdled Nassa. Shell ovately conic, 

 whitish, encircled with brownish lines, longitudinally 

 strongly plaited, plaits distant, ornamented with white 



transverse ridges, the interstices between which are 

 brown ; columella wrinkled, slightly callous, lip vari- 

 cose without, strongly ridged within. 



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



Mab. St. Helena (in sandy mud at twenty fathoms) ; 

 Cuming. 



Chiefly distinguished by the deep brownish grooves be- 

 tween the white transverse ridges. 



