PLATE CXXXVIII. 



VOLUTA TRIPLICATA. 



THREE PLAITED VOLUTE. 

 QENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell spiral, narrow, without a beak : columella or 



pillar, twisted or plaited. 



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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell ovate, smooth and brown : spire rather pointed : whorls six : 



pillar with three plaits. 



Voluta triplicata : testa ovata laevi brunnea, spira acutiuscula : 

 anfractibus sex, columella triplicata. 



Turbo sex anfractibus apertura ovali bidentata. Walker. Test. min. 



rar. jig. 50 ? 



This curious little Volute has not we believe been either figured 

 or described by any Author. In its general appearance it approaches 

 pretty nearly to the shell figured by Walker, as above quoted ; but 

 if the same, that writer has certainly described it with no very great 

 degree of accuracy ; for he speaks only of two plaits, or teeth in the 



