A REVIEW OP THE VOLUTIDAE 



Voluta muslca polypleura Crosse I876 

 (Plate 1, Figure 5) 



Voluta muslca var. polypleura Crosse, J. de 

 C, 24, p. 163, plate 5, fig. 6, I876. 



Voluta polypleura. Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 84, plate 24, fig. 34, I882. 



Voluta chlorosina Lamarck, may be refer- 

 able to this subspecies. See Ann. Mus . 

 Hist, Nat. (Paris) Vol. 17, p. 66, I8II. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. Antilles? 



Nucleus horn color; eleven plaits 

 on the columella, of which three are feeble; 

 aperture whitish. This subspecies differs 

 from the others in the total absence of the 

 brown lines which mimic a musical manu- 

 script. 



Voluta muslca thlarella Lamarck 

 (Plate 1, Figure 9) 



1844 



Voluta thiarel la Lamarck, An. s. Vert., ed. 

 Deshayes, vol. 10, p. 592, 1844. Klener: 

 species, p. 28, plate 28, fig. 1, I839. 

 Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 4, p. 84, 

 plate 24, fig. 5I, 1882. 



Voluta eloniata Chemnitz, has the spire ab- 

 normally produced. 



Voluta nebulosa Lamarck, merely a color 

 variety of this subspecies. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. West Africa. 



In V. muslca thlarella the spire is 

 well produced. Examination of a long 

 series of individuals will determine the 

 advisability of retaining this name as a 

 valid subspecies. 



Voluta muslca typica Lamarck I8II 

 (unf igured) 



Valuta typica Lamarck, A. du M., 17, 

 p. 66, I8II; Encycl. Meth., plate 38O, 

 fig. 1, 1780. Bonnani, Recreatlo Ment , 

 et Ocul., 2, p. 155, fig. 297, 1684 



(cited by Linne). Sowerby: Thes, Conch., 

 p. 211, plate 49, fig. 40, 1847. 



Alt. (sufficient material unavailable to 

 determine average size). 



Hab. Tobago, West Indies (Rawson). 



Shell short, wide, buff or yellow- 

 ish white under the usual brownish tracery, 

 with six or seven subspinose stout ribs at 

 the shoulder of the whorl; nucleus dark 

 brown; sparse spiral sculpture near the 

 canal only; Interior of the aperture usual- 

 ly white; outer lip with black spots, pil- 

 lar lip with nine to eleven plaits. (Dall) 



Voluta ebraea Linne 1758 



(Plate 1, Figure 8; Plate 2, 



Figures 11, I5) 



Voluta ebraea Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 

 p. 733, number 372, 1758; ed. 12, 

 p. 1194. Hanley, Conch. Linn., p. 233. 

 Reeve: Conch. Icon., plate 9, figs. 

 20a, 20b, 1849. Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 84, plate 24, fig. 37, 1882. 



Voluta hehraea Gmelln, Syst. Nat., 6, 



p. 3461, 1792. Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., 

 17, p. 65, number 20, I8II. Sowerby: 

 Thes. Conch., vol. 1, p. 211, number 

 43, plate 54, figs. 95, 96, 1847. 



Buccinum coronatum Martyn, Univ. Conch., 

 2, plate 83, 1786. 



Voluta turbinata Klener: Icon., Voluta, 

 p. 19, plate 26, fig. 2, I839. Tryon: 

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

 fig. 40, 1882 (considered by Tryon to 

 be a subspecies). 



Alt. 90-150 mm. 



Hab. Jamaica (Martini); Pernambuco et 

 Maceio, Brazil, common (Greeley); West 

 Africa (Carpentler, Rich, McGuire, 

 Stearns); Madagascar (Humphrey). 



Nucleus (see Plate 26, Figure I8I) 

 consisting of three whorls; more or less 

 double-shouldered; suture impressed, 

 slightly crenulated; post-nuclear whorls 

 about foiir; growth lines irregular, but 

 occasionally well defined; five, very con- 

 spicuous, oblique, anterior plaits and 

 about six feeble posterior plaits upon the 



