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Fam. Neeitid^. 

 Neeita albicilla L. 



I. Karachi. Upon rocks at half -tide. Bombay (Abercrombie) ; 

 southwards to Goa (Lt.-Col. H. D. Olivier). 



Neeita chameleon L. 



Var. arabica Eeeve (sp.). 

 P.G. Grulf of Oman, Maskat. Upon rocks at half-tide. 



Var. quadricolor Gmel. (sp.). 

 I. Bombay. 



Neeiia longii Recluz. 



I. Karachi, at half-tide. Eecorded likewise from Bombay, 

 where, however, Mr. A. Abercrombie did not succeed in procuring 

 it. 



Neeita oetzaetjm Eecluz. 



1. Bombay, very abundant {Abercrombie). 



Neeita plexa Chemn. 



M.C. On rocks at high-water mark, generally distributed ; I 

 have also found them above high-water mark, where they could 

 only possibly be reached by spray {F. W. T.). 



I. Karachi. 



Neeita (Pila) cheysostoma Eecluz. 

 I. Karachi, at half-tide. 



Neeita (Odontostoma) polita L. 



I. Bombay {Abercrombie) ; not reported as yet farther north. 



Neeita (Heminbeita) anodonta Melv. 



I. Karachi {J. 0. Tiuelh per G. B. Sowerby). 



Neeitina (Dostia) ceepidulaeia Lam. 



T. Karachi (var. depressa). Bombay {Abercrombie ; Olivier). 



Though, properly speaking, an inhabitant of brackish waters, it 

 is so frequently found on the sea-shore, especially at the mouths of 

 rivers, that it is not out of place to include it in a list of Marine 

 MoUusca. 



Suborder ii. MONOTOCAEDIA. 



(a) Ptbnoglossa. 



Pam. Ianthinid^. 



Ianthina feagilis Lam. 



I. Bombay {Abercrombie). 



Ianthesta globosa Swains. 



P.Gr. Gulf of Oman, near Maskat, particularly large and fine. 



I. This is probably the species undifferentiated by Mr. Aber- 

 crombie, as occurring at Bombay with /. fragilis Lam. {communis 

 Lam.). 



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