1916. | H. B. Preston: Andaman Marine Mollusca. 89 
Nassa phoenicensis, sp. n. 
(Pigs: 27124. 5p. /88:) 
Shell rather small, shortly fusiform, reddish-brown, painted 
with spiral bands of dark chocolate; whorls 6, flattish, regularly 
increasing, the last long, sculptured with slightly oblique, trans- 
verse costulae, crossed by fine, spiral lirae and a single groove a 
little below the sutural region, which transforms the terminations 
of the transverse costulae into a row of nodules; suture im- 
pressed; columella margin obliquely descending, bearing four 
plait-like denticles, livid whitish in colour, restricted and rather 
erectly calloused and extending above into a well defined, parietal 
callus which reaches to the upper margin of the labrum; labrum 
varicosely thickened with narrowly reflexed margin, obliquely 
backwardly sloping and sharply contracted to form a notch near 
its base, bearing seven denticles just within; aperture irregularly 
ovate, canal short. 
Alt. 7, diam. maj. 3°75, diam. min. 3°25 mm. 
Aperture: alt. 2°25, diam. I mm. 
Hab.—Phoenix Bay, Andaman Islands, in 1-3 fathoms, on a 
bottom of muddy sand (S. Kemp). 
Nassa (Hima) tindalli, Melvill. 
Proc. Malac. Soc. London, Vol. VII, 1907, p. 29 (fig. in text). 
Port Blair. 
A single small and damaged specimen which the author refers 
with some hesitation to the above quoted species originally des- 
cribed from Baticaloa, Ceylon. 
Nassa (Niotha) livescens, Phil. 
Zeitschr. fiir Malak., 1848, p. 135 (as Nassa); Tryon, Man. Conch., 
Ser. 1, Vol. IV, p. 54, pl. xvi, fig. 304. 
Semiramis Bay, 2-6 fathoms, in fine mud. 
A single dead and immature specimen. 
Nassa (Arcularia) globosa (Quoy). 
Quoy and Gaimard, Zool. Voy. Astrolabe, II, p. 448, pl. xxxii, figs. 25-27 
(as Buccinum). 
Phoenix Bay, in 1-3 fathoms, in muddy sand. 
Nassa (Arcularia) cancellata, Adams. 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1851, p. 99; Tryon, Man. Conch., Ser. 1, Vol. IV, p. 26, 
pl. viii, fig. 35. 
» Bamboo Flat Bay, 1-4 fathoms, in muddy sand. 
