42 NANINA. 



N. INDICA, Pfr. PL 23, fig. 46. 



Perforate, rather solid, striae rib-like above, and closely gran- 

 ulatel}'' decussate^ with impressed lines, smooth below, except 

 a few spiral lines^near the keel-; yellowish brown; whorls 5-6, 

 the last carinate on the periphery. Diam. 23, alt. 14 mill. 



Nilgherry Mts., Central India; Australia (introduced). 



N. VARIOLOSA, Pfr. PL 14, fig. 87. 



Perforate, rather solid, opaque, very closely plicate above, 

 decussated by regular concentric lines ; orange-brown above, 

 yellowish brown below, subfasciately ornamented with white, 

 obliquely subquadrangular pustules ; whorls 3^V, the last sharply 

 carinated on the periphery. Diam. 23, alt. 13 mill. 



Hab. unknown. 



This shell is certainly not adult. 



N. CYMATIUM, Benson. PL 14, fig. 89. 



Umbilicated, solid, thinly striated and minutely obliquely 

 rugulose; reddish brown, lighter on the b.-isc ; whorls (U-, suture 

 chestnut-margined, the last whorl with a compressed peripheral 

 carina, lighter colored, with a chestnut band In-low it; base spi- 

 rally striate, umbilicus large. Diam. 45, alt. V 21 mill. 



Malacca, Petn.mj. 

 N. CHEVALIERI, Souleyet. PL 14, fig. 90. 



Umbilicated, rugulose above; olivaceous brown, base lighter; 

 whorls 6, the last narrowly carinated on tl.c periphery and 

 chestnut-banded ; aperture banded within. 



Diam. 37, alt. 20 mill. 



Malacca. 



Less conical, whorls more rapidly enlarging, umbilicus smaller 

 than in the preceding species. 



N. DENSA, Ads. and Reeve. PL 14, figs. 91-93. 



Narrowly Umbilicated, moderately solid, striate, minutely 

 granulose above, smoother below; light yellowish or orange- 

 brown ; whorls 5^, last whorl acutely angnlated on the per- 

 iphery, with a narrow chestnut band below the angle. 



Diam. 40, alt. 20 mill. 



Philippine*. 



