OF MERGUI AND ITS ARCHIPELAGO. 



181 



Last whorl very inflated; nearly smooth, white, with large 

 chestnut bands. 



Mergui. Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Borneo. 



120. Nassa marginulata, Lam., Kiener, Bucc. fig. 117; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. viii. pi. vii. fig. 43. 



Buccinum arcularia papulosa, Chemnitz, Conch.-Cab. vol. x. fig. 1474. 

 Vertical ribs ; whorls angulated above. 



Mergui, mud-flats ; King Island, littoral ; Elphiustone Island 

 Bay and Sullivan Island, 7-10 fathoms. Celebes. 



Var. hepatica, Bulteney, Montagu, Testacea Britannica, pi. 8. 

 fig. 1 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. viii. pi. viii. figs. 50, 51. 



More elongated. 



King Island. Moluccas. 



121. Nassa, sp. indetermined. 

 Mergui, mud-flats ; King Island, littoral. 



Only young specimens, resembling N. planicostata, Eeeve, 

 Conch. Icon. viii. pi. xii. fig. 76. 



122. Nassa rayida, Adams, Reeve, I. c. viii. pi. xi. figs. 68 & 74. 

 Sullivan Island, 7 fathoms. Malacca, Philippines, Hawaiian 



Islands. 



Also only young specimens. 



123. Nassa albescens, Bunker, Bhilippi, Abbildungen, Buc- 

 cinum, pi. 2. fig. 15 ; Reeve, I. c. viii. Nassa, pi. xv. fig. 100. 



Nassa bicolor, Hombr. Sf Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, Moll. pi. 21. 

 figs. 41, 42. 



White, regularly granulated, angulated near the suture. 

 Owen Island. Red Sea, Mauritius, Timor, New Guinea, Samoa 

 and Viti Islands, Carolines. 



124. Nassa mlricata, Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. 'Astrolabe] 

 Zool. pi. 32. figs. 32, 33 ; Reeve, I. c. viii. pi. xi. fig. 73. 



Distinctly cancellated ; the interstices broad, square, about 

 four rows on the last whorls. 



King Island. Mauritius, New Ireland. 



Yar. horrida, Bunker, Bhilippi, Abbildungen, Bucc. pi. 2. 

 fig, 8 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. viii. pi. xi. fig. 69. 



Vertical ribs prevailing, the spiral lirse more numerous. 

 King Island. Mauritius. 



125. Nassa nodata, Hinds, Zool. Voy. 'Sulphur,' pi. 9. figs. 

 14, 15 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. viii. pi. vii. fig. 41. 



