A REVIEW OF THE VOLUTIDAE 



columella; aperture more capacious than In 

 K. mus tea musica - 



Voluta vlrescens Solander, I786 

 (Plate 1, Figures 2, k; Plate 2, 

 Figure 12) 



Vol'ita virp.scens Solander, Port. Cat., p. 



26, number 6IO; p. I36, number 320; 



p. 174, number 3751, I786. Martini: 



Conch. Cab., 3, p, 243, plate 97, figs. 



932-3, 1777. Ball: Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., 18, p. 146, 1899. Reeve: Conch. 



Icon., pi. 9, fig. 19,* 1849. Tryon: 



Man. Conch, vol. 4, p. 84, pi. 24, figs. 



35. Smith: East Coast Marine Shells, . 



p. 127, plate 51, fig. 10. 

 Valuta polyzonalis Lamarck: Ann. du Mus., 



17, p. 68, no. 27, 1811; Encycl. Meth., 



11, P- 379, figs. la-b. Sowerby: Thes. 



Conch, vol. 1, p. 212, pi. 52, figs. 77, 



78. 

 Huric I formes cant ine los'is Meuschen: Mus. 



Severs., p. 326, I787. 

 Voluta f'liva Lamarck: Ann. du Mus., I7, 



p. 68, no. 28, 1811; Encycl. Meth., ii, 



pi. 382, figs. 3a-b (bleached specimen). 

 Voluta pnsio Swainson, Zool. Illust., vol. 



2, plate 181, 1831. Sowerby: Thes. 



Conch., vol. 1, p. 213, plate 55, fig. 



119- Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 4, 



p. 84, plate 24, fig. 36, 1882. 



Alt. up to 62 mm. 



Hab. Mesquital, Texas, south to Nicaragua 

 (Fluck), to Sabanilla and Carthagena, 

 United States of Columbia (Schoot); West 

 Africa (Ward), Guinea coast, etc. 



Nucleus whitish; about twelve, mod- 

 erately strong plaits upon the columella, 

 some of which are ill-defined, particular- 

 ly the posterior four, which are slightly 

 oblique. The young shell Is strongly 

 spirally sulcata, a character gradually 

 lost. An example in the collection of the 

 author is buff colored, spotted with choc- 

 olate-brown. 



Genus LYRIA Gray 1847 



Lvria Gray, 1847, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. l4l : type V. n-iclp'is Lamarck, Ann. 

 du Mus., 17, p. 73, I8II; not Liria Gray, 

 Phil. Mag. and Journ., 1824. 



Otochpll'is Conrad: Amer. Journ. Conch., 1, 

 p. 24, 1865, figd. species Pul ^oraria 

 mississippiensis Conrad, Journ. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 2nd series, 1, 

 p. 119, plate 13, fig. 1, 1848. 



Harpella Gray; in Adam's Genera Rec. Moll., 

 vol. 2, p. 618, 1858; V. coptata Swain- 

 son, not Solander, equal V. anna Lesson; 

 not Harpella Schrank, 1802, Lepidoptera. 



Genotype: V. nucleus Lamarck. 



Range: Widely distributed in tropical 



seas, including the Antilles, Australa- 

 sia and the Indian Ocean. 



The group is of ancient origin, 

 being represented by related forms in the 

 upper cretaceous of India and the earliest 

 Eocene of America. Like Voluta s.s., the 

 animal possesses an operculum. From 

 Voluta, the radula teeth are distinguished 

 by the presence of few cusps. The out- 

 standing shell character is the shelly nu- 

 cleus, which is small and usually simple. 

 Certain species including the Miocene Lyrla 

 zebra Heilprln and others from the Eocene, 

 possess the bulbous type nucleus. 



Lyria beauii Fischer and Bernardi I857 

 Plate 2, Figure 16) 



oluta beauii Fischer and Bernardi, Jour, 

 de Conchyllologie, vol. 5, p. 296, pi. 

 9, figs. 1, 2 (not pi. 10 as cited in 

 vol. 8, p. 108 d.f. 



Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 , 31, fig. 137, 1882. 



text). Jour. Mai. 



Lyria beaui F. and B. 



vol. 4, p. 102, pi 



Alt. 70, dlam. 30 mm. (holotype). 



Hab. Islet of Marle-Galante, near Guada- 

 loup. West Indies (Beau). 



T)all, In his papers, omitted reference to Reeve's figure of this species In the Conchologla loonlca 

 possibly because he suspected that the shell Illustrated represents a different race or species from 

 virescens . An anatomic study of both Antlllean and African examples will eventually determine any ex- 

 isting differences. It may be found advisable to retain the name pusto as a subspecies. It was Indi- 

 cated as a wider and shorter form than typical viresce.ns . Swainson type of pusio was apr^arently a 

 worn specimen. 



