32 Mr. Broderip's descriptions 



As soon as I became possessed of my specimens of V. rutila, I 

 carried the tuberculated variety to Mr. George Humphrey. It is 

 wiell known that this patriarch of collectors has been most assi- 

 duous and accurate in noting down localities. When he saw the 

 shell, he pronounced it undescribed and not the F. aulica of 

 Solander ; and an examination of the MSS. of that eminent natur- 

 alist will prove the correctness of Mr. Humphrey's assertion.* He 

 said that it was extremely rare, that he had a small one in his own 

 collection, and that, from the place whence he received it, he 

 called it the Red Music of New Zealand. This specimen, which 

 is of the tuberculated variety, has now passed, together with the 

 rest of the collection accumulated by Mr. Humphrey, during a life 

 already extended beyond the ordinary bounds allotted to man, 

 into the hands of Mr. G. B. Sowerby. 



VoLUTA. PULCHRA. — The Beuuty Volute. 



V.testaoblongo-ovata,subfusiformi, la3vi, nitida, carnea,albido- 

 xnaculat^, maculis spadiceis triseriatim irregulariter dispositis, 

 ornata; anfractibus superne adpressis, tuberculis acutiusculis, 

 sub-compressis, coronatis : apertura superne acuta, columella 

 4-plicata. Long. 2 y^. lat. ^t_ unc. Sowerby in T. C. 



V. testa oblongo-ovata, subfusiformi, laevi, carnea, niveo-macu- 

 lat^ ; anfractu basali maculis fusco-spadiceis, sparsis, trifasciato ; 

 anfractibus angulatis, tuberculisque elongatis, antice acutiusculis, 

 frequentibus, coronatis ; spira mediocri, apice sub-papillari, sub- 

 granulato ; columella 4-plicat^. 



Mus. nost. 



Habitat. 



Icon. T. C. tab. 3. f. 2. 



Shell ovate-oblong, subfusiform, smooth, of a flesh-colour spot- 

 ted with snowy white ; the whorls angulated and armed with 

 elongated tubercles nearly sharp at the anterior extremity, where 

 they are so much elevated as to make an almost abrupt descent to 

 the suture ; the body-whorl ornamented with three bands of ir- 

 regular dark-chesnut spots on a ground somewhat darker than the 

 * See next page. 



