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VARIETIES OF NASSA. 
Spirata, A. Ad. Reeve, pl. 2, f. 13. Swan River. 
Similar in both form and colour to the Eburna spirata. Borneo. 
More elongated, passing into N. mucronata, A. Ad. 
Banded with reddish-brown lines. 
With the whorls more regular than the last. 
Sufflata, Gould. Hong Kong Harbour. 
Mucronata, A. Ad. Reeve, pl. 2, f. 8. 
Mucronata, A. Ad. Throat deep purple, tip sharply and 
regularly plicate. 
Between N. mucronata and N. picta. 
Between N. picta, D’k’r., and N. rufula, Reeve (not Kiener!). 
Coronated at the sutures, two-banded. 
Between N. Kieneri, Anton, and N. picta, D’k’r. 
Filosa, Gray. Reeve, pl. 6, f. 35. 
More oblique; is the N. obliquata, A. Ad. P.Z.S., 1851, 
p. 105. Philippines. 
Elongated, apex pink. 
Very elongated, coronated at the sutures, like the N. graphitera, 
Beck, blotched and spotted with dark brown. 
Elongated, semicostate ; N. gaudiosa, Hinds. Reeve, pl. 8, f. 48. 
Intermediate between N. gaudiosa, Hinds and N. graphitera, 
Beck. Howland’s Islands. 
Lilacina, Gould. 
Between the elongated varieties of N. glans, Linn., and N. 
graphitera, Beck. 
Marratii, Smith. Jour. Linn. Soc., vol. 12, p. 453, pl. 30, 
f. 4. San Christoval. 
Pale buff, thick, plain. Howland’s Islands, 
Gaudiosa, Hinds. Japan. 
Paler, more elongated, and semicostate. Sandwich Islands. 
Reeve, pl. 13, f. 85. Is more turreted, ribs longer. 
Prompta, Marr. (See description.) 
Shell elongated, costate, passing into the leta, Phil. Zeit. f. 
Malak, 1848, p. 144. 
Polita, Marr. (See description.) Taylor Collection. Mauritius. 
White with longitudinal orange lines, flamed and blotched 
with pale brown. 
Spotted, sutures crudely crenated. Taylor Collection. Philippines. 
