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anfractibus 14; infimo supra medium subanguloso; aperturd 
albido-cerulescente pallido ; columella plano-compressd, superne 
callosd, margine denticulatd, medio breviter ac recté emarginatd. 
Hab. Ba 
Alt. 17, lat. 205, convex. 14 mill. 
7, Neritra Dorner. Ner. testd parvd, globoso-ovatd vel subglo- 
bosd, pariim obliqud, tenuiusculd ; anfractibus 14-2 oblique rugu- 
losis, transversim et sub lente creberrimé ac obsoleté striolatis ; 
aperturd viriduld ; columellé fere pland, margine denticulatd et in 
medio subarcuatd ; labro tenui, semicirculari. 
Var. a. Testd lineolis longitudinalibus undulatis nigris et luteis cre- 
berrime pictd. 
Var. (3. Testd ut in var. a, et zonis lutescentibus plus minusve nume- 
rosis cinctd. : 
Hab. Hanover Bay, North Australia. Collected by Mr. T. E. 
Doing, R.N. 
Alt. 92, lat. 10, convex. 7 mill. 
8. Nerira Cotomsaria. Wer, testd ovato-globosd, levissime stri- 
atd; anfractu unico, rufescente, viridescente pallido obsolete fas- 
ciatd, maculis minimis luteis nigro seu roseo marginatis pictd ; 
columelld callosd, subconvexd, denticulatd, medio vir emarginaté ; 
labro antic? subtruncato, basi et intus incrassato. 
Operculo crasso, extern? viridulo, lutescente pallido undato, medio 
perlongum strid bipartito. 
Var. 8. Testd viridi-olivaced, striis luteis distantibus ornatd, medio 
et inferne lutescente late fasciatd ; fasciis nebulis rubris pictis, 
Hab. Colombo, Ceylon. Collected by Capt. Templeton. 
Alt. 9-103, lat, 103-11, convex. 7-8 mill. 
IV. SuBAURICULATA. 
9. Nerira sorpan1, Butler, Sowerby, Conch. [llustr. 
Var. a. Major. Testd ovatd vel oblongd, albidd, lineis undulatis ni- 
gris, rubris, violaceisve pictd ; apertura oblique semi-ovatd ; labro 
interdum superneé dilatato. 
Var. 3. Strangulata. Testd minor, rotundatd, ovatd seu subconicd, 
medio horizontaliter compressd, fere strangulatd, albidd lineis ro- 
seis rubrisve pictd; spird sepiis obtusd, interdum acutd ; labro 
superne interdum dilatato. 
Var. y. Nitida. Testd major, nigerrimd, nitidissimd. 
Var. 0, Limosa, Testd parvd, sepissime argilld crasse obductd, sub- 
tas albidd aut luteo-viridescente lineis nigris, violaceis, rubrisve 
undulatis pictd, interdum omnino nigerrimd sive lutescente,—Ne- 
rita lutescens, Megerle ? 
Hab. La var. a. Le Jourdain ; la var. 8. Smyrne ; la var, y. La Syrie; 
la var. 6. Céphalonie. 
A paper was read containing ‘‘ Descriptions of new species of 
Shells,” by Lovell Reeve :— 
Prevrotoma rosacea. Pleur. testd ovato-turritd, anfractibus ro- 
tundatis, superne depresso-concavis, transversim subtiliter striatis, 
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