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606 EDGAR A. SMITH.Family BUCCINIDAE.89. Engina mendicaria, Lamarck {liicinula mendicaria, Reeve, 37,///.) XI.90. Sngina bonasia, Martens {Plicatella {Peristernia) honasia. Martens, 26). IX.91. Engina rawsoni, Melvill (Sistrum rawsoni, Melvill, 27, a). V.The columella is described as "simplice," but all the specimens examined, including the type,exhibit a thin circumscribed callosity, with a small transverse tubercle at the upper end, and afew anteriorly. All also have a pale peripheral zone, and some of the costae are whitish. Inone of the Maldive specimens, white is the predominating tint ; on the contrary, a second exampleis almost entirely of a rich brown colour, excepting the whitish zone round the middle of thebody-whorl, which is rather more contracted and produced anteriorly than usual, the canal, inconsequence, appearing a little longer.92. Phos roseatus. Hinds, 40, b, III. II, lY, V, VI, VII.93. Phos textilis, A. Adams, 40, b, III. V, XIII.The specimens from the above localities are considerably smaller than the type from thePhilippine Islands but do not offer any tangible differences in other respects. The protoconch islarge and consists of three smooth glossy convex yellowish whorls. The normal volutions may varyfrom four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half.Family NASSIDAE.94. Nassa bifaria, Baird, var. 5,39,/. II, IV, V, VII, X.The Maldive specimens belong to the same variety as those from the Andaman Islands whichI recorded and figured at the above reference. Tryon in his absurd craze for "lumping" consideredthis species "a stumpy variety" of X. hirta, Kiener, a species with which it has in fact butslight resemblance, differing in size, colour and sculpture.95. Nassa marratii. Smith, 39, e,/ XI.Two specimens were obtained agreeing with the type excepting in their larger size, being19 mm. in length, like the Andaman examples figured in the P. Z. S.96. Nassa monile, Kiener, 37, VIII. XI.97. Nassa stigmaria, A. Adams, 37, YIII. V, XII, XV.98. Nassa echinata, A. Adams, 37, VIII. IX, X, XII, XV.99. Nassa glans, Linn. Z7,VIII. 111.100. Nassa granifera, Kiener, 37, VIII. IV, VIII, X, XIII, XV.101. Nassa maldivensis, n. sp. (PI. XXXV. tigs. 6—8). VIII, IX, XILTesta N. ahjidae^ similis, sed concolor, albida, anfractu ultimo majori ; lirae aperturae circiter12 et columellae rugae validae. Longit. 25 mm., diam. 15. Apertura cum labro 15 longa, 7 lata.var. a. VIT. Testa minor, anfractu ultimo costato. Longit. 20 mm., diam. 11.Shell ovate, turreted, white ; whorls 6i gradate, upper ones costate, the costae nodose at theupper end through being traversed by a depression or groove, gradually dying out so tliat the1 Nassa algida. Reeve, Con. Icon. vol. viii. figs. 145 a, b.