36\ Mr. Brodenip on rare and new Voluta3. 



flammiferis, enormiter angulosis, fusco-spadiceis, ornate ; anfractu 

 basali superne angulato, caeteris gibbis ; spira productiorij apice 

 tnincato-papilloso ; columella triplicata ; labio exteriore sub-re- 

 flexo. 



Mus. nost. 



Habitat.—? 

 . Icon. T,C. tab. 4 & 5. 



Shell oblong, ventricosey smooth, unarmed, pale flesh-colour, 

 painted with wildly irregular angulose flamy stripes of dark ches- 

 nut ; body whorl angulated above,, the other whorls gibbous ; 

 spire rather produced, its apex truncato-papillose ; pillar with 

 three plaits ; margin of the outer lip somewhat reflected. Length 

 about six inches. 



This very fine and extraordinary volute, first described and 

 figured in the Tankerville Catalogue, strikes us at once by the 

 singularity of its form and the boldness of its colouring. The 

 apex of the spire, fashioned after the sam« manner as that of 

 V, papulosa (Swainson), in which shell this peculiar structure is 

 most strongly developed, gives us the idea of a papillary apex 

 •which has been rubbed or cut down, or abruptly terminated be- 

 fore the papilla was complete. To designate this kind of apex I 

 have used the term '' truncato-papillose." The same formation, 

 but upon a smaller scale, will be found in the apex of V./usi- 

 formis (Swainson). All these shells have three plaits on the 

 pillar, and the outer lip more or less reflected. 



I have no direct evidence of its locality, but its congeners were 

 found in the Southern Ocean ; and I suspect that our shell, the 

 only specimen which I have seen or heard of, is a native of the 

 the same seas.* 



* I take this opportunity of announcing my intention to attempt a mono- 

 graph of the genus Valuta of Lamarck. 



