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N. Domingensis. N. Smithii. 



N. auriculata. N. spinosa. 



N. crepidularia. N. Oweni. 



N. brevispina. N. pulchella. 

 N. corona. 



2. Genus JVenYa. PL X. 

 AnimaL See Neritina. 



Shell. Marine, but never spined, solid, semiglobular, flattened 

 beneath, not imbilicated ; aperture large, entire, semilunar, the 

 external margin much hollowed ; the columella sharp and often 

 dentated, operculum horny, subspiral, with a projecting tooth. 

 Inhabits the seas of S. America and W. Indies. Twenty species. 



Nurita exuvia. Nerita lineata. 



N. textilis. N. scabricosta. 



N. undata. • N. plicata. 



N. peloronta. N. tassellata. 



N. chlorostoma. N. signata. 



N. atrata. N. ornata. 



N. polita. N. Australis. 



N. albicella. N. rudis. 



N. chamaeleon. N. Ascensionis. 



N. versicolor. N. Malaccensis. 



3. Genus JVavicella. PI. X. 



Ji7iimal. Oval, not spiral, foot elliptical, very large, with a 

 thin subpapillary edge, advanced rather anteriorly, without mar- 

 ginal furrow, but attached on each side to the visceral mass in 

 all its posterior portion so as to form a sort of cavity open trans- 

 versely behind ; head very broad and semilunate ; tentacula 

 conical, contractile and distant ; eyes subpedunculated at the ex- 

 ternal root of the tentacula ; mouth large and longitudinal. 



Shell. Fluviatilc, elliptical, or oblong, convex above, summit 

 straight, depressed to the margin, concave beneath ; no columella ; 

 the columellar edge replaced by a sharp partition, covering part 

 of the aperture ; a sinus at its left extremity ; muscular impres- 

 sion horse-shoe shaped, open in front and interrupted behind ; 



