THE 
GLOSSY NERITE 
ANB 
FEATHERED NERITE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal allied to a Limax or Slug. 
Shell univalve, spiral, gibbose, fiattish beneath. 
Aperture semiorbicular, with the lip of the pillar 
transverse, truncated, and flattish. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, iefc. 
GLOSSY NERITE. Smooth, whitish Ne- 
rite, with reddish and dusky variegations 
and streaks. 
Born. Mus. Cees. pL\7. f. 15, i6. 
FEATHERED NERITE. Olivaceous Ne- 
rite, with white variegations, and trans¬ 
verse, feather-shaped, black spots. 
Born. Mus. Cces. pi. 17 . f. 11 , 12 . 
The genus Ncrita is possessed of a singular neatness 
of appearance. In point of form, it bears a near re¬ 
semblance to that of Helix, or Snail; but as by far 
the greater number of species are natives of the sea, 
they are of a much thicker and stronger fabric than 
either the land or fresh-w’ater snails. Both the species 
here represented are produced in the Indian seas. 
