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VARIETIES OF NASSA. 
Teeniolata, Phil. Captain Whiteway, Valparaiso. 
—=Woodwardi of Authors, (Not Forbes), 
lL White, with two brown bands, 
White, covered with a pale grey epidermis. 
Passing into the small granular forms of N. pauperata, Lam. 
- : z N. Gayi, Kien. 
Almost smooth, merely exhibiting the lines of growth. 
Semigranosa, D’k’r. Zeit. f. Malak., 1846, p. 170. 
Optata, Gould. A variety of the above. Sydney Harbour. 
Another slightly deformed shell ; is the N. munieriana, Crosse. 
Between N,. semigranosa, D’k’r., and teniolata, Phil. Peru. 
Reata, Gould. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1860. Loo Choo. 
Red-brown, ribbed longitudinally and grooved transversely ; 
between N. semigranosa, D’k’r., and N. pauperata, Lam. 
2 Grained throughout, passing into N. pauperata, Lam. 
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Showing a close affinity with the N. nodicincta, A. Ad. 
Transparent white, strongly grain-ribbed. Australia. 
Corrugata, A. Ad. P.Z.S., 1851, p. 100. 
Verrucosa, Gmel., p. 4427. Gault., pl. 43, f. M. 
White, obliquely costate, showing a rather close relationship 
with such shells as the N. clathrata, Born. 
3 Denticulata, A. Ad. P.Z.S., 1851, p. 110.° “There is some 
resemblance in the general aspect of this species to young 
specimens of the common Buccinum undatum.”—Reeve. 
Prismatica, Brocchi. Sub. App. Foss., pl. 5, f. 7. Recent 
and fossil. Mediterranean. 
0 Limata, Chem., pl. 188, f. 1808-9. x 
Narrower and more turreted than the last, of a reddish-brown 
colour, spotted with white. 
Strongly ribbed and tumidly noduled, with rufous spots 
between the nodules. 
Resembling the N. conferta, Martens. 
Scalariformis, Valence. Kien., pl. 21, f. 80. 
Kiener, Indian Ocean. 
Resembling the variety of N. gaudiosa, Reeve, pl. 13, f. 85. 
Between the N. limata, Chem., and N. versicolor, C. B. Ad. 
