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shouldered, tuberculated at the angle, tu- 

 bercles compressed, a little descending; 

 columella strongly four-plaited; ground 

 pale yellow or flesh color, variously 

 painted with scarlet red blotches and fine 

 longitudinal lines. 



Solander's manuscript description 

 is as follows : Splra apice mammlllarl 

 aulica. Voluta emarginata, oblonga, 

 inermls, albo luteoque nebulosa, spira 

 conica; anfractlbus oblique planis; 

 mamllla laevl; columella quadruplicata. 



Aulica bednalli (Brazier) 1879 

 (Plate 14, Figure 98) 



Voluta bednalli Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 8l, 1879- 

 Pace: Proc. Zool. Soc. London l880, 

 p. hid, PI. 40, fig. 1. Sowerby: Proc. 

 Mai. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 49, 1895 

 (note and colored illustration); Thes. 

 Conch., vol. 5, 2nd suppl., p. 504, pi. 

 18, (Thes. pi. 517), fig. 171. Tryon: 

 Man. Conch., vol. 4, p. 89, pi. 26, fig. 

 66, 1882. 



Alt. 80 mm. 



Hab. Port Darwin, Torres Straits, North 

 Australia (Bednall). 



Shell narrowly elongately ovate, 

 solid, white, with four narrow transverse 

 red or bright orange bands on the last 

 whorl, the upper band close next the suture, 

 the other three at equal distances down the 

 whorl, which are crossed by about twelve 

 similar, narrow, longitudinal, zig-zag 

 bands of the same color, showing a tendency 

 to spread into irregular spots between the 

 second and third transverse bands; whorls 

 six, flatly convex, marked with fine lon- 

 gitudinal striae or lines of growth, which 

 are more prominent on the upper whorls; 

 the last whorl more than two-thirds the 

 length of the shell; spire elevated, apex 

 papillary and obtuse; aperture somewhat 

 narrow, white within, columella nearly 

 straight, furnished with four plaits, the 

 two upper ones the largest and least 

 oblique, the two lower ones very oblique; 

 outer lip simple (Angas). 



Aulica cathcartlae (Reeve) I856 

 (Plate 24, Figure I67) 



Voluta cathcartlae Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, I856, pi, 55, figs. 5, 6. 

 Sowerby: Thes, Conch., vol. 5, 2nd 

 suppl., p. 501, pi. 16 (Thes. pi. 515), 

 fig. 158. Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. 4, 

 p. 88, pi. 27, fig. 79, 1882. 



Alt. 82 mm. 



Hab. 



Apex obtuse; spire short; shell 

 orange-yellow, overlaid with three, inter- 

 rupted bands of purplish black spots; sur- 

 face of body whorl covered with longitudi- 

 nal undulating reddish-brown lines; col- 

 umella with four plaits. 



The unique type of this handsome species 

 is now in the collection of the Natural His- 

 tory Museum at Dijong (Sowerby). 



Aulica cymbiola (Chemnitz) I788 

 (Plate 17, Figure II5) 



Voluta cymbiola Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., vol. 

 10, p. I4l, plate 118, figs. 1585, 1586, 

 1788. Reeve: Conch. Icon., plate 19, 

 fig. 46, 1849. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., 

 vol. 1, p. 192, plate 51, figs, 

 Tankerville Cat,, plate 5, fig, 

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

 plate 29, figs. 118, 119, 1882. 



Voluta corona Chemnitz: Conch. Cab., 

 10, p. 142, plate l48, figs. 1587, 

 1788. Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. 

 p. 195, plate 55, figs. 120, 121, 

 Man. de Conch., p. I87, fig. 947, 1859. 

 (This may eventually prove to be a valid 

 species. The lack of sufficient mate- 

 rial prevents this question from being 

 decided at the present time.) 



Voluta coronata Kiener: 1859, Monog. T. 

 4l, fig. 1. Chenu: Man. de Conch., 

 p. 186, fig. 948, 1859. 



75, 76; 



1. 



99, 



vol. 

 1588, 



1, 

 Chenu : 



Alt, 



60 



Hab. Moluccas ( Spice Islands). 



Nucleus consisting of two and one- 

 half whorls, apex low, very obtuse; post- 

 nuclear whorls, two or three; suture more 



