A REVIEW OP THE VOLUTIDAE 



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According to M. d'Orbiguy the Nldl- 

 mental capsules of this species are three 

 inches In length. 



Adelomelon ferussacil (Donovan) 182^1 

 (Plate 12, Figures 87-88) 



Valuta ferussacil Donovan, Nat. Repos., 2, 

 pi. 67, 1824. Reeve: Conch. Icon,, 

 pi. 10, fig. 25, 1849. Sowerby: Thes. 

 Conch., vol. 1, p. 203, pi. 46, fig. 7, 

 1847. 



Voluta rudts Gray, in Griffith's Cuvier, 

 15, pi. 50, fig, 1, 1854. 



Voluta braslltana (pars). Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 98, pi. 30, fig. 131 

 iferussacti) and pi. 29, fig. 3 (rudis), 

 1882. 



Voluta {Aulica) ferussacil Crosse: J. de 



c, 19, p. 286, 1871. 



Voluta ovlformls Lahille : Rev. Mus. de la 

 Plata, 6, p. 313 (extras, p. 20), pi. 2, 

 figs. 53-56; pi. 7, figs. I2I-I3IJ pi. 

 10, figs. 4-9, 1895; with varieties 

 loniiuscula and fratprcula Lahille. 



Voluta {cymhlola) ferussacl Strebel: Zool. 

 Jahrb., 24, p. 100, pi. 9, figs. 46, 46a, 

 48, 49, 1906, 



Adelomelon ferussacil Dall : "A Review of 

 the American Volutidae, " p. 362, 1907. 



Alt. up to 125, diam. 87 mm. 



Hab. Coast of Patagonia (ihering and La- 

 hille); Puerto Gallegos (Strebel); east- 

 ern part of Magellan Straits (Cunning- 

 ham); Punta Arenas (Mulach). 



Donovan's original type is de- 

 scribed as having only two plaits. This 

 specimen apparently had been "over-cleaned" 

 with acid. Possibly the secondary plaits 

 were obliterated. Its nearest ally is A, 

 brasl I iana . 



Adelomelon magellanica (Lamarck) I8II 



(Plate 11, Figure 83; 

 Nepionic shell Plate 25, Figure I70) 



Voluta maiellantca Chemnitz: Conch. Cab., 

 10, pp. 138-39, 1788, ex parte, pi. l48, 

 figs. 1383, 1384, Gmelin: Syst. Nat., 

 6, p. 3465, number 110, ex parte, 1792. 



Voluta maiellanica Lamarck, Ann. du. Mus., 



17, p. 69, 1811. Encycl. Meth., pi. 385, 

 figs, la, lb, 1816. An. s. Vert., 7, 

 p. 344, 1822. Wood, Ind. Test., ed. 1, 

 p. 101, pi. 21, fig. 168, 1825 (after 

 Chemnitz and Lamarck). 



Voluta gracilis Wood^ Ind. Test., Suppl., 

 pi. 3, voluta, fig. 2, 1828; ed. Hanley, 

 p. 209, pi. 3, fig. 2, 1856; (not Voluta 

 iracllis Swainson, Journ. Sci., 17, p. 

 32, Exotic Conch., pi, 43, 1821; nor of 

 Gray, in Griffith's Cuvier, p. 6OI, pi. 

 40, fig. 4, 1834). 



Voluta ancilla. Kiener, Icon. Coq. Vlv., 

 Voluta, p. 39 (plate 52 by error, really 

 plate 51), 1839; not V. ancilla Lamarck. 



Voluta maiellanlca. Gould: Exped. Shells, 

 Wilkes Exped., p. 278, pi. 20, fig. 357, 

 1852 (animal fig'd). 



Voluta bracata Rochebrune and Mabille, Miss. 

 Cap Horn, p. 48, number 72, I889. Iden- 

 tical with the preceding. 



Voluta ancilla. Reeve: Conch. Icon., mono. 

 voluta, pi. 17, fig. 39, 1849. Tryon: 

 Man. Conch., vol. 4, p. 97, pl. 29, fig. 

 110, 1882; not of Gould, I852. 



Scaphella (voluta) arnhelmi Rivers, Proc. 

 Cal, Acad, Aci,, 2nd series, 3, July l4, 

 1891. 



Voluta ancilla. Lahille: Rev, Mus. de la 

 Plata, 6, p. 311 (21 of extras), ex 

 parte, pl. 1, figs. 9, 10; pl. 2, figs, 

 63, 64; pl. 8, figs. 159, 173-183, 184- 

 192, 1895; also var. typlca Lahille, 

 p. 312, pl. 11, fig. 5; vars. ponderosa, 

 eloniata (pl. 11, fig. 2), Inflata and 

 (?) expansa Lahille, p. 313; and var. (?) 

 abbrevtata Lahille, p. 314, 1895; Strebel, 

 Zool. Jahrb., 24, number 2, p. 92, I906. 



Voluta bracteata "Rochebrune" Strebel, I. 

 c. = V. bracata Rachebrune and Mabille. 



Alt. 125-165 mm. 



Hab, Uruguay and from about south latitude 

 43° on the Argentine coast, south to the 

 Straits of Magellan, from low water mark 

 to 77 fms,, usually on sandy bottom in 

 which the animals burrow. Falkland 

 Islands, Lively Island, York Bay and 

 Port William, Burnt Island, Orange Har- 

 bor on sandy bottom (Dall). 



This is a variable shell, but 

 heavier, on the whole, more slender, with a 

 longer spire and shorter body-whorl than 

 A • and I la . 



