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VARIETIES OF NASSA, 
Between N. thersites, Brug., and the next. 
Stolata, Gmel., p. 3496-7. Mart. Conch., vol. 4, pl. 121, 
f. 1167-9. Wood’s Index, pl. 23, f. 120. 
S. Archer, Singapore. 
=ornata, Kien. ‘Ceylon. 
White, with two broad brown bands. 
¥ a narrow central band. 
2 Small, passing into the N. tiarula, Kien. 
Luteostoma, Brod. and Sow. Reeve, pl. 10. f. 63. Panama. 
—=xanthostoma, Gray. Reeve, Senegal. 
Nodules very large and distant. Mazatlan. 
3 rather close and numerous. 
Transverse strize almost obsolete. 
Shell smaller, transverse striz sharply defined, front pale 
yellow. 
The whole callous is of a dark smoke-brown colour. 
Mazatlan. 
Passing into the N. antillarum, Phil., enamel white. 
Short, dumpy, nodules few, very ieee oblique, callous of a 
chrome yellow colour. 
Antillarum, Phil. Zeit. f. Malak., p. 139, 1848. Abbild., 
le ali Bs 12. West Indies. 
Dark, with a central pale band. Reeve, p pe ee re 
Smaller; is the N. cinisculus, Reeve, pl. 22, f. 146. 
St. Thomas, West Indies. 
Small, ribs strongly noduled, yellow with a few transverse 
red-brown lines. 
Shell passing into the N. acuta, Say (not Carp’t’r. !) 
Dyson, Honduras. 
Tall, narrow, and small, showing a close affinity with the 
N. meesta, Hinds. 
Whorls round, ribs granular, passing into narrow varieties of 
N. dentifera, Powis. 
Keeled in the centre of the whorls. 
Buff, with red-brown interrupted transverse bands, Reeve 
phy, tlle. 
Tessellata, Reeve, pl. 25, f. 167; is simply a variety of the 
N. vibex, Say. 
