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A REVIEW OF THE VOLUTIDAE 



Coquille allongee, fuslforrae, 

 brlllante, sollde, pourvue de cotes longgl- 

 tudinales assez peu marquees; d'un jaune 

 rose, ornee de llgnes transversales brunes, 

 Interrompues et rapproachees; soramet petit, 

 obtu3, blanc; suture lin^alre; 8-9 tours 

 de spire, subanguleux en arriere; dernier 

 tour plus grand que le rests de la spire, 

 renfle vers le centre, att^nue en avant; 

 columelle un peu concave, charges de plls, 

 dont 3 princlpaux en avant; peristome arque, 

 l^gerement r6flechi en dehors, epaissi en 

 dedans, blanchatre et marqu^ de taches 

 brunes a son bord llbre; ouverturs allonges, 

 lanceol^s; canal assez court. 



Lyrla cassldula (Reeve) 1849 

 (Plats 2, Figurs 13) 



Vol'ita cas'^ Irin 1 a Reeve, Conch. Icon., plate 

 22, figs. 60a-b, 1849. Sowerby: Thes, 

 Conch., vol. 3, 1st suppl., p. 270, 

 plate 11, (Thes. plate 260), fig. 130, 

 1864, Hlrase: A Collection of Jap. 

 Shells., plats 112, fig. 4, 1936. 



Lpf-ia cassii^'ila . Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 103, plats 31, fig. 138, 

 1882. 



Alt. 25 to 57 mm. 



Hab. Japan. 



The sculpture is more delicate than in 

 L. nucleus, while the longitudinal ribs 

 terminate at the suture in such a manner as 

 to give a crpwned appearance to the spire. 



Lyria delsssertiana (Petit) 1842 

 (Plate 2, Figure 10) 



Voluta fip.lepsertiana Petit, Mag. de Zool., 

 plate 57, 1842. Reeve: Conch. -Icon. , 

 plate 3, figs. 5a-b, 1849. Sowerby: 

 Thes. Conch., vol. 1, p. 2l6, plate 52, 

 figs. 73, 74. 



Lyria 'ip 1 essp.rt iana . Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 103, plate 3I, fig- l40, 

 1882. Maxwell Smith: World-Wide Sea 

 Shells, p. 67, fig. 895, 1840. 



Lyria ripjessprtii Petit.: Chenu, Man. de 

 Conch, p. 190, fig. 979, 1859. 



Alt. 50-56 mm. 



Hab. Tiger Bay and Nosse-Be, north coast 

 of Madagascar. 



Five post-nuclear whorls; ground 

 color creamy white suffused with salmon- 

 pink; surface covered with regularly placed, 

 rounded, longitudinal ribs, the interspaces 

 of equal size, filled with parallel inter- 

 rupted incised lines; about twenty-one ribs 

 upon body whorl; sixteen plaits of varying 

 size upon the columella, the anterior being 

 the strongest, small granular processes ad- 

 jacent to the terminations of the plaits; 

 fairly prominent posterior canal; shell 

 broadly extended beyond outer lip. 



Lyria dellclosa (Montrouzier ) 1859 

 (Plate 2, Figure 18) 



Voluta dplicio^a Montrouzier, J. de C, 

 2nd ssriss, 375, I859. Sowsrby: Thes. 

 Conch., vol. 3, 1st. suppl., p. 270, 

 plate 11, (Thes. plate 260), fig. I3I. 



Lyria del iciosa . Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 

 4, p. 102, plate 3I, figs. I33-I35, 1882. 



Alt. 25-30 mm. 



Hab. 



New Caledonia, 



Ground color yellowish white, with 

 numerous incised spiral linss, more or less 

 interrupted and most prominent anteriorly; 

 suture puckered; spirs with many longitudi- 

 nal ribs, which tend to flatten out upon 

 the body whorl; nucleus livid flesh color; 

 3 columellar plaits which are strongsst 

 within, vsry faint plaits upon posterior 

 two- thirds. 



Lyria lyraeformls (Broderip) 

 (Plate 2, Figure 20) 



Vol'ita lyrae formis Broderip, Zool. Journ., 

 vol. 3, p. 83, plate 3, fig. 3- Reeve; 

 Conch, Icon., plate 20, fig. 48, 1849. 



Sowerby: Thes. 



plate 49, figs. 



Conch., p. 190, 

 Hi t ra lyrae formis . 



T. 54. 

 Lyria lyrae forni s . 



Conch., vol. 1, 

 45, 46. Chenu, 

 fig. 978, 1859. 

 Swainson, Zool, 



p. 217, 

 Man . de 



must.. 



Tryon: Man. Conch., 

 vol. 4, p. 103, plate 3I, fig. l4l, 1882, 

 Maxwell Smith, World-Wide Sea Shells, 

 p. 67, fig. 897, 1940. 



