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236. Nassu {Zeuxis) maldive usis, Sm. 



Nassa maldivensis, E. A. Smith, (MoUusca) iu J. S. Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of Maldive 

 and Laccadive Archipelagoes, vol. ii. part 2, p. 606, pi. 35. figs. 6-8. 



Loc. Chagos Archipelago : Diego Garcia Lagoou. 



The only species of the four described by Mr. Edgar Smith that has yet occurred 

 in more southerly seas. 



237. IN^assa [Telasco) eleyans, Kien. 

 Loc. Cargados Carajos, 30 fatliouis. 



238. Nassa [Rehra] hispida, A. Ad. 



Loc. Seychelles : Praslin I., also Station P 3, 3D fathoms, hard saml bottom. 

 N. acinosa, Gould, a2)pears synonymous. 



239. JVassa [Hebra) miu-lcata, Q. & G. 

 Loc. Coetivy I. 



Family BuCCinidBB. 



240. Pisania tritonoldes (Reeve). 



Loc. Providence I. : Station D 1, 50-78 fathoms, among hard rough lumps of coral. 

 Considered by Tryon a variety of P. If/uca, Gmeiiu, while Paetel merges it altogether 

 as a synonym of that species. 



241. Tritonidea reiicosa, A. Ad. 



Log. Amirautes : Station E 11, 23-80 fathoms, hard rough bottom. 

 Also found iu Japan. 



242. Tritonidea rubi(jinosa (ileeve). 

 Log. Seychelles : Praslin I. 



243. Tritonidea undosa (L.). 



Loc. Saya de Malha Banks : Station C 16, 26 fathoms, among living corals and rubble. 



Seychelles : Praslin I. 



Coetivy I. 



Chagos Archipelago : Barachois Maurice, Diego Garcia. 

 Very widely distributed throughout the East. 



244. Metula iilleJieusti (Petit). 



Loc. Seyclielles : Station F 2, 31 fathoms, coral and shell bottom. 



Extends to New Caledonia. This species seems placed indiscriminately in the genera 

 Metula and Tritonidea. Paetel, for instance, twice names it, once in each genus, quoting 

 it, indeed, as a synonym of Pisauia reticulata, A. Ad. 



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