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A REVIEW OF THE VOLUTIDAE 



Hab. Eastern Seas. 



Of more oblong growth, less strong- 

 ly tubercled than the other subspecies. It 

 is marked with thin tortuous lines of paint- 



ing, varying from dark olive-brown to bright face. The last character, which it has in 



scarlet or orange, 



Aulica verconis (Tate) I892 

 (Plate 24, Figure I66) 



Valuta Verconis Tate, Trans, Proc. and Re- 

 port of Royal Society of South Australia, 

 15, p. 125, 1892. 



Alt. 25.5-34 mm. 



Hab. 13 fathoms in Yankalilla Bay, St. 

 Vincent Gulf; 30 fathoms off Corney 

 Point, Spencer Gulf (both by Verco); 

 Investigator's Straits, dead shells 

 (Zietz, in S, Aust , Museum), also in 22 

 fathoms (Verco). 



Elongate fusiform, spire turrlted, 

 short; aperture about two-thirds the total 

 length. 



Nucleus of two and one-half smooth 

 whorls; spire whorls three and one-half, 

 the anterior ones angulated antemedially 

 and nodosely-plicate on the angulation, ex- 

 tending to the anterior suture, but evanes- 

 cent towards the posterior suture. Body- 

 whorl with ten nodosities on the periphery, 

 abruptly terminating plications, which oc- 

 cupy the median area; at about the anterior 

 fourth the suture commences to ascend on 

 the penultimate whorl, finally attaining 

 to the angulation; outer lip incrassated, 

 but bevelled off Inside to a thin simple 

 edge; columella with four plications. 



The sculpture consists of axial 

 linear grooves, hardly visible by the un- 

 aided eye, and transverse wavy-striae; the 

 latter occur on the spire-whorls and the 

 shoulder of the body-whorl, and are visible 

 only by the aid of a lens. 



The color is whitish, with intri- 

 cate linear fulvous markings; chestnut 

 spotted around the posterior suture, and 

 on the body-whorl, also about midway be- 

 tween the angulation and the front. 



In its general characters this spe- 

 cies resembles a dwarf V, kreuslerae Ang&s, 

 being about one-third of its size; from 

 which it differs by its proportionately 



shorter spire (the ratio of the total length 

 to that of aperture in V . kreuslerae is 100 

 to 52), more angulated whorls, by the ascen- 

 sion of the anterior part of the body-whorl 

 on the spire, and by its wavy- striated sur- 



common with Volutoconus coni formls Cox, is 

 very exceptional in the genus. 



Genus VOLUTOCONUS Crosse I87I 



Volutoconus Crosse, I87I, J. de C, vol. 

 19, p. 306. 



Genotype: Voluta conl formls Cox. 



Range: Australia. 



Shell oblong, subcylindrical, lon- 

 gitudinally and transversely striate; spire 

 short and obtuse; columella plaits consist- 

 ing of four slightly developed teeth. 



Volutoconus coniformls (Cox) I871 

 (Plate 20, Figure I39) 



Voluta coniformis Cox, J. de C, vol. I9, 

 p. 74, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1871. Sowerby: 

 Thes, Conch., vol. 5, 2nd suppl., p. 298, 

 pi, 15 (Thes, pi, 514) fig. l45. Tryon: 

 Man, Conch., vol, 4, p, 100, pi, 30, 

 fig. 129, 



Alt, 70 mm, 



Hab. Nichol Bay, northwest Australia. 



Shell solid, yellowish brown, with 

 three faint broad chestnut bands together 

 with irregular or triangular large and small 

 spots and blotches; spire low; six convex 

 whorls; four plaits on columella. 



Genus CALLIPARA Gray I855 



Calltpara Gray, I855, Zool, Proc, p. 62. 



Genotype: Cal I ipara bullata Swalnson. 



Range: South Africa. 



Shell oblong, subcylindrical; spire 

 short; nucleus small; columella with three 

 plaits. 



