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PEOE. E. VON MAETENS ON THE SHELLS 



Strongly cancellated, somewhat similar to the European 

 iV. incrassata. Last whorl angulated above. 

 King and Elphinstone Islands. Malacca. 



126. Nassa lieata, Marrat, On the Varieties of Nassa, Liver- 

 pool, 1880, pi. 1. figs. 18, 19. 



Last whorl angulated above ; dark brown, with a pale orange 

 band. 



King Island. Philippines. 



127. Nassa eoveolata, Dunker, Zeiischr. f. Malak. 1847, 

 p. 63; Reeve, Conch. Icon. viii. pi. xiii. fig. 83. 



King Island f. 



128. Nassa punctata, Adams, Reeve, I. c. viii. pi. viii. fig. 54. 

 Smooth, variegated with grey, yellowish and blackish ; spire 



elongated, pointed. 



Mergui ; King Island and Owen Island. Mauritius, Phi- 

 lippines. 



129. Nassa Thersites, Bruguiere, Rumph. Ami. Rar. pi. 27. 

 fig. N ; Kiener, Bucc. fig. 113 ; Reeve, I. c. viii. pi. x. fig. 65. 



Buccinum pullus, Linne. 



Recognizable by the oblique hump-like smooth gibbosity on 

 the back of the last whorl opposite to the aperture. 



Elphinstone Island, on sand, plentiful ; King Island. Salang, 

 Singapore, Philippines, New Guinea. 



Var. acypha, n. (PI. XVI. fig. 1, a, I, c.) 



The whole of the last whorl regularly vertically ribbed, with 

 only faint indication of the characteristic hump. 



Mergui. 



130. Nassa cancellata, Adams, Reeve, I. c. viii. |pl. xxiii. 

 fig. 155. 



Mergui, mud-flats. Mauritius, Philippines. 



131. Nassa LABEOUXA, Adams, Reeve, I. c. viii. pl.xxv. fig. 106. 

 King Island and Pilai Bay, living a little below high-water 



mark. (J deles, Timor, Philippines. 



132. Nassa delicata, Adams, Reeve, I. c. [viii. pi. xxviii. 

 fig. 180? 



Owen Island, 7 fathoms. Philippines. 



