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Stat. 37. Sailus Ketjil, Paternoster-islands. Up to 27 M. Coral and coralsand. i Spec. 

 Stat. 53. Bay of Nangamessi, Sumba. Up to 36 M. Coralsand. i Spec. 

 Stat. 277. Kulevvatti-bay, Dammer-island. 44 M. Sand, i Spec. 



These specimens are small and those from Stat. 37 and 53 are moreover bleached, conse- 

 quently I cannot make out to which variety they belong; the majority of specimens belongs to: 



var. iessellata Philippi. 



Philippi. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. II, Natica, p. 48, PI. 7, fig. 7. 

 Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. VIII, p 23, PI. 5, fig. 79 [liirida). 



Stat. 4. Djangkar (Java). 9 M. Coralsand. 2 Spec. 



Stat. 33. Bay of Pidjot, Lombok. Up to 22 M. Mud, coral and coralsand. i Spec. 



Stat. 47. Bay of Bima, near South fort. 55 M. Mud with patches of fine coralsand. 3 Spec. 



Stat. 116. West of Kwandang-bay entrance. 72 M. Fine sand with mud. i Spec. 



Stat. 261. Elat, West coast of Great-Kei-islarid. 27 M. Mud. i Spec. 



As the views of authors about N. inarochiensis^ its synonyms and varieties are very 

 different, I have applied the name given by Philippi to a shell with characteristic colour-pattern, 

 some specimens are partly of a brownish ground-colour. 



10. Natica nehilosa n. sp. PI. XIII, fig. 2. 



Stat. 240. Banda. 9 — 45 M. Black sand, coral, i Spec. 



Shell conically globose, thin, smooth, shining, with traces of a thin epidermis towards the 

 aperture; whorls 5Ya, convex. The nuclear and part of subsequent whorls are nearly smooth, 

 but have a few radiating striae and the suture is bordered by a spiral ridge. The last 2^\„^ 

 whorls are separated by a deep suture, with radiating striae, gathered puckerings below it. 

 Moreover the shell is covered with very fine growth-striae and a few scattered spirals, which 

 are only visible under a strong lens. Colour very light lilac, with a narrow white zone at the 

 suture, and a broader one round the umbilicus; the lilac zone of the shell has very faint rufous- 

 brown streaks, which are more or less waved, forming at the shoulder of last whorl, a row of 

 arrow-headed spots and a row of stjuarely-oblong blotches, just above the umbilical white zone. 

 Aperture oblong-ovate, rather angular at the upper corner; right margin thin, curved, columellar 

 margin nearly straight, but slightly concave, its upper part reflected on the body whorl, tongue- 

 shaped just above the umbilicus, of which only a small, deep pit of the upper part remains, 

 the umbilicus being nearly quite filled by a white, porcellaneous funiculum, with only a groove 

 at its left side, originating from the umbilical pit, becoming shallow towards the base. Oper- 

 culum calcareous, for a large part smooth and shining, near the nuclear part thickened by a 

 dull layer, bordered at the left by a comma-shaped rim ; right margin bordered by 3 raised 

 rims, of which the outermost is narrow and not strongly developed, especially towards the base 

 of the aperture; the median rim is rather narrow, much raised, bordered externally by a 

 shallow, internally by a deeper groove; internal rim the broadest, separated from the rest of 

 the operculum by a deeply incised groove. 



Alt. 15Y3, lat. 1473; apert. alt. 127,, lat. 8 Mill. 



