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NERI'AH, [Heb. light.] A man’s name. 
NERI'CIA, or Nerike, a province of Sweden, bounded 
on the north by Weftmanland, on the eaft by Suder- 
manland, on the fouth by Eaft and Weft Gothland, and 
on the weft by Warmeland. This province is about fixty 
miles in length, and forty-eight in breadth. In molt parts 
of it the foil is fertile, and produces corn and pafturage. 
This country yields iron and fulphur mines, quarries of 
load-ftone, alum, lime-ftone, See. confequently it has iron- 
founderies, with fulphur and lead works. Here are large 
woods, feveral high mountains, confiderable rivers, and 
twenty-three lakes which abound in fifh. Nericia is 
famous for feveral flouriftiing manufactures of all kinds 
of hard-ware; and it has always been remarkable for 
forging arms, See. The chief occupations of the inha¬ 
bitants are agriculture, working in the mines and forges, 
hunting, and fiftiing. Orebro is the principal town. 
NERILKE'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: 
twelve miles eaft of Seringapatam. 
NE'RIN, a river of Dalmatia, which runs into the 
Narenza. 
NERINGJIPET'TY, a pagoda of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Coveriporum. 
NE'RIO AFFI'NIS, in botany. See Bignonia and 
Cerbera. 
NE'RIS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Allier, with a medicinal fpring: three miles fouth-eaft 
of Montlugon. 
NERI'TA, f. in helminthology, the Nerite ; a genus 
of teftaceous worms. Generic characters — Animal a 
limax ; fhell univalve, fpiral, gibbous, flattilh at the bot¬ 
tom ; the aperture is femiorbicular, or femilunar; pillar- 
lip tranfverfely truncate, flattilh. Seventy-fix fpecies are 
enumerated as belonging to this genus, feparated into 
three divifions, according as they are umbilicate, imper¬ 
forate with toothlefs lips, or imperforate with lips that 
are toothed. The Ihells are generally fmall, ufually po- 
lilhed, and often banded. 
I. Umbilicate. 
1. Nerita canrena : fhell finooth, with a (lightly-pointed 
fpire, and a gibbous bifid umbilicus. It inhabits India, 
Africa, and America, in almoft innumerable varieties of 
fize, colours, and marks; being white, yellowifh, or bluifli, 
with varioufly-difpofed fpots, lines, and clouds. As thefe 
animals are colleCled and preferved chiefly for the fake 
of the (hells, the tnoft curious of them will be found re- 
prefented under Conchology, vol. v. The prefent fpe¬ 
cies has been (hown on Plate X. of that article, fig. 3,4. 
2. Nerita cancellata: fhell with decuflate ftrias and im- 
preffed dots; the fpire fubclavate ; umbilicus gibbous and 
bifid. This fpecies is found in feveral of the American 
iflands. The (hell is white with obfolete fpots, with fome- 
times a fulvous band and rays. 
3. Nerita glaucina: fhell finooth, gloffy; fpire rather 
obtufe; umbilicus partly clofed by the pillar-lip, which is 
gibbous and two-coioured. It inhabits the coafts of Bar¬ 
bary, and is fometimes found on our own fliores. It is 
about two inches long. 
4. Nerita vitellus : (hell fubglobular, with a perforated 
equal umbilicus. It inhabits the Indian Ocean. The 
fhell is yellow, with white (hades, and fpots dilpofed in 
rows, above with a dufky band; within and round the 
umbilicus it is white. This is delineated (from Knorr) 
on the preceding Plate, at fig. 16. 
5. Nerita albumen: fhell convex; umbilicus fomewhat 
heart-fhaped, with a flattened lobe. This fpecies is found 
at the Cape of Good Hope, on the Barbary coaft, and at 
the Nicobar and Molucca iflands: it is, however, a very 
rare fhell; fmooth and broad, of a pale yellow colour, 
white and flat beneath. 
6. Nerita mammilla: fhell ovate, glabrous; umbilicus 
partly covered ; aperture ovate. There are four different 
varieties of this fpecies ; found in India, and divers parts 
of America. It is more than two inches long. 
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7. Nerita leucozonias: fhell fubglobular and folid, of a 
bay colour, with white bands ; the fpire is fomewhat de- 
prefled. It is more than an inch long. 
8. Nerita fpadicea: fhell fubglobular and folid, chefnut- 
colour, but beneath white; the tip is bluifli, throat with 
bands, one alfo on the back. Found in the ifland of 
Mauritius, and is rather large. 
9. Nerita rufa: fhell thin, rufous ; umbilicus darker, 
with a white border; the back and bafe of the fpire have 
a white band on each, the throat with a reddifli band ; 
pillar with a brown fillet. 
10. Nerita fulminea: fhell fubglobular, white with an¬ 
gular tawny lines, and flattened lobe. There are three 
varieties; found, though but rarely, in Africa. 
11. Nerita ftercus-mufcarum : (hell fmooth, fnowy, with 
rufous fpots and fpecks; the umbilicus is gibbous and 
bifid. It inhabits the Mediterranean and American leas; 
and is thought to be a variety of the N. canrena. 
12. Nerita orientalis: fhell fubglobular, polifhed, very 
fmooth, the bafe of the fpire a little wrinkled; pillar 
fnowy. It is found in the Eaftern Seas. There are two 
varieties: the fhell of the one is of a buff-colour on each 
fide, with a narrow white band in the middle; the other 
is entirely white. 
13. Nerita cruentata: fhell fubglobular, white, with red 
fpots and dots, the lip obtufe and bluifli, within bluifli; 
umbilicus fpiral. 
14. Nerita rugofa : fhell wrinkled, within glabrous, pale 
teftaceous; umbilicus bordered with white. It inhabits 
the American iflands. 
15. Nerita marochienfis: fhell fubglobular, fmooth, 
light green, within brownifti, and livid at the tip; a little 
wrinkled at the angle of the whorls. It is found in 
Africa. The fhell is fometimes marked with feathered 
•bands ; the younger ones are thin and pellucid. 
16. Nerita fulcata: fhell fubglobular, obliquely plaited; 
fpire with four whorls, mucronate; umbilicus bifid. 
17. Nerita arachnoidea: fhell white, reticulate, with 
reddifli lines, and blackifh at the tip ; whorls convex ; 
umbilicus nearly covered. 
18. Nerita vittata: fhell fubglobular, brown, with a 
double white fillet in the middle, reticulate and denticu¬ 
late on each fide. This is an African (hell. 
19. Nerita melanoftoma: fhell thin, pellucid, fmooth, 
oblong; the firft whorl ventricofe, fiat, and very large, 
the others comprefled ; the umbilicus is half clofed. There 
are five varieties of this fpecies. It inhabits the Indian 
Sea, and is two inches long. 
20. Nerita pallidula: fhell femitranfparent horn-colour,, 
the whorls rather prominent; aperture femilunar, and 
very patulous; the umbilicus is large. It inhabits the 
coaft of Kent and Dorfet. 
21. Nerita papilla: fhell pellucid, thin, oblong, with 
decuflate ftrias; of a dirty yellow colour; the aperture is 
fuboval; the pillar white, and the umbilicus half clofed. 
It inhabits the fliores of Tranquebar. 
22. Nerita clathrata ; fhell depreifed, ovate ; tranfverfely 
undulate, and longitudinally ribbed, the ribs flat, ob¬ 
lique, and femilunar; fpire papillary. Found in a foffile 
ftate in Campania. 
23. Nerita valvata: fhell flattifh, with a circulated aper¬ 
ture. It inhabits the North Seas. The inhabitant of the 
fliell has two fetaceous tentacula, bearing the eyes at the 
pofterior angle. 
24. Nerita Iflandica: fhell globular, fubacute, and ra¬ 
ther thick; it has four whorls, feparated by very deep 
grooves. It is found in the North Seas. 
25. Nerita affinis : fhell globular, and rather thick, with 
a fubmucronate fpire, and three whorls. It inhabits New 
Zealand ; and is probably a Trochus. 
II. Imperforate, with toothlefs lips. 
26. Nerita corona: whorls of the fpire crowned with 
fpines. It inhabits India and America, and is minute. 
The lhell is fometimes blackifh, thinly ltriate. 
27. Nerita: 
