A REVIEW OF THE VOLUTIDAE 



Porto Rico (Gundlach). 



Shell characterized by the pale, 

 flesh-colored ground. Interspersed with 

 markings of rose-orange and nucleus of con- 

 trasting light amber color; narrower than 

 V, muslca musica, usually smaller than 

 V. musica thiarella. There are eight to 

 eleven low ribs. 



Voluta musica damula Dall 1907 

 (unf Igured) 



Valuta musica namnla Dall, Smith. Misc. 



Coll., vol. 48, part 3, number I663, 



p. 347, 1907. 

 Valuta musica, Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 



1, pi. 49, fig. 42, 1847. 



Alt. 42 mm. (exclusive of nucleus). 

 Hab. Curacao (Rawson). 



Shell small; eight or nine low ribs, 

 slightly nodulous at the shoulder; nucleus, 

 pale brown; ground color whitish with usual 

 tracery; aperture livid pink or sometimes 

 violaceous, with brown spots on outer lip 

 and nine or ten plaits on the columella. 



This Is easily distinguished by Its 

 pale coloration and small size. 



Voluta musica gulneensls Chemnitz 1795 

 (Plate 1, Figure 6) 



Voluta musica iuineensis Chemnitz, Conch. 

 Cab., 11, plate 178, figs. 1717-18, 



1795. 

 Voluta iuinaica Lamarck, An. s Vert., ed. 



Deshayes, vol. 10, p. 395, 1844. Klener: 



species p. 26, plate 29, fig. 1. 

 Voluta musica var. {valuta iuinaica Lamarck) 



Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 1, plate 



49, fig. 38. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. Guinea, West Africa. 



The revolving color-lines are large- 

 ly broken by Irregular blotches of dark 

 chestnut-brown. 



Voluta musica laevigata Lamarck I8II 

 (Plate 1, Figure 7) 



Voluta laevigata Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., 17, 



p. 67, I8II; Encycl. Meth., plate 379, 



fig. 2a-b, 1780. 

 Voluta musica var. laevliata. Sowerby: 



Thes. Conch., vol. 1, p. 219, plate 49, 



fig. 36, 1847. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. La Guayra, Venezuela, common (Bartle- 

 man); "West Indies" (b. H. Wright). 



Shell oval with seven to nine low, 

 hardly nodulous ribs; nucleus brown; sur- 

 face yellowish color, with crowded dark 

 zig-zag blotches, the parallel brown lines 

 tending to become obsolete; spiral sculp- 

 ture faint or absent In front of the suture 

 and normal near canal; aperture yellowish 

 pink; outer lip with brown spots, which 

 sometimes project as nodules; columella 

 with eight to thirteen plaits. 



Voluta musica pllcata Dlllwyn I817 

 (unfl-gured) 



Voluta plicata Dlllwyn, Desc. Cat. Rec. 

 Shells, 1, p. 563, nimber 152, I817. 



Voluta sulcata Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., 17, 

 p. 68, 1811. Chemnitz: Conch. Cab., 

 10, p. 151, plate 149, figs. l403-4, 

 1788. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 1, 

 p. 212, plate 53, fig. 87, 1847; not V. 

 sulcata Gmelln, 1792 and probably not 

 V. sulcata Lamarck, I788. Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 84, plate 24, fig. 

 33, 1882. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. "West Indies" (Chamberlain). 



Hucleus pale in color; surface 

 white, with fawn colored blotches; oval in 

 shape, of much the same form as V. musica 

 carneolata , ribs not nodulous at the suture, 

 characterized by transverse grooves, from 

 end of the last volution to the other. 



