230 SOLENID.E. 



375. Novaculina andamanensis, Preston. 



Novaculina andamanensis, Preston, Rec. Ind. Mus., Calcutta, ii, 

 p. 209, pi. 16, fig. 40. 



Original description : Shell oblong, elongate, inequilateral, con- 

 stricted towards the middle, pure white, bearing traces o having 

 been covered with a yellowish-brown periostracum, concentrically 

 striate ; dorsal margin slightly sloped anteriorly ; ventral margin 

 excavated in the middle, anterior side rounded ; posterior side 

 produced, somewhat angled below ; umboes small. 



Long. 16-5, lat. 37'5 mm. 



ffab. Andaman Islands. 



The type is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



The specimens on which the above species was based were col- 

 lected in the Andamans by the late Eev. J. Warueford. It would 

 seem to be scarce as, though several collections of Andaman Island 

 material have since passed through the hands of the compiler of 

 the present volume, no further specimen has come to light. 



