88 Records of the Indian Museum, [ Wor xcs 
Family NASSIDAE. 
Nassa kempi, sp. nu. 
(Figs: X, 125) 
Shell small, ovately fusiform, whitish , shading on the last whorl 
to pale yellowish-brown, painted with two spiral bands of pale 
reddish-chestnut which increase to three on the last whorl; whorls 
5, the first two smooth, polished, the last three sculptured with 
rather closely-set, transverse costulae ; base of shell finely spirally 
sulcate ; suture impressed, crenellated by the terminations of the 

Fic. 1.—Nassa kempi, sp. n. X 6. Fic. 2.—Nassa phoenicensis, sp. n. X 4. 
» Wh do., sculpture, x 8. 3 2a— do., sculpture, xX 4. 
Fic. 3, 3a.—Natica kempi, sp. n. X 3. 
» 30.— do., operculum X 3. 
transverse costulae ; columella obliquely descending, narrowly and 
restrictedly outwardly calloused, the callus extending upward 
across the parietal region to meet the upper margin of the labrum 
and bearing eight denticle-like plaits of which the uppermost and 
the three basal ones are the coarsest; labrum white, acute, 
varicosely thickened behind, slightly projecting in front and some- 
what sharply contracted near the base, bearing seven small, 
regular denticles just within the aperture; aperture ovate; canal, 
short, rather broad. 
Alt. 4°5, diam. maj. 2°5, diam. min. 2°25 mm. 
Aperture: alt. 1°5, diam. *5 mm. 
Hab.—Semiramis Bay, Andaman Islands, in 2-6 fathoms, on 
a bottom of fine mud (S. Kemp). 
