It.WKLLA.— Plate V. 



The toad-like Ranella. Shell ovate, thick, heavy, 

 varices canaliferous ; whorls everywhere granulated 

 and punctured, strongly wrinkled near the suture, 

 angulated in the middle, rudely tubercularly knob- 

 bed about the angle ; whitish, punctures brown ; 

 columella slightly excavated, wrinkled, white ; 

 aperture rotundately ovate, ending upwards in an 

 elevated canal, interior white ; lip strongly denti- 

 culated. 



Variety /3. Fig. a. 

 Testd rubido-nigricunte macvlatd et variegatd, columella 



labroque intus rubido-nigricante rividi tinctis. 

 Shell spotted and variegated with reddish black, colu- 

 mella and lip vividly stained within with the same 

 colour. 

 Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes' edit.), vol. ix. 

 p. 546. 



Murex bufoiiius, Gmelin. 

 Hab. Island of Capul, Philippines (found under coral at 

 low water) ; Cuming. 

 This species may be easily recognised by the remark- 

 able canaliculated structure of the varices. 



The richly coloured variety which I have here speci- 

 fied is the shell figured in Chemnitz, Conch., which M. 

 Deshayes proposes to suppress (vide note in new edition 

 of Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., p. 546). I think, how- 

 ever, Lamarck was perfectly correct in assigning it to the 

 Rmtel/a bu/onia. 



Species 24. (Mus. Brit.) 

 Ranella verrucosa. Ran. testd ovatd, gibbosd, sotidd, 

 spird acuminata ,- varicibus indistinctis ; anfractibus 

 medio angulatis, tuberculis uniseriatim cinctis, an- 

 fractu ultimo tuberculorum seriebus tribus armato, 

 tuberculis lievibus, subrotundis, verrucis graudibus si- 

 millimis ; albidd, tuberculis ad summitatem purpureo- 

 fuscis ; columella albd, rufo-lineatd ; aperturd ovatd, 

 utrinijue leviter cana/iadatd ,- labro incrassato, ra- 

 diatim sulcata. 

 The warty Ranella. Shell ovate, gibbous, solid, 

 spire acuminated ; varices indistinct ; whorls angu- 

 lated in the middle, encircled with a single row of 

 tubercles, last whorl armed with three rows of tu- 

 bercles, tubercles smooth, nearly round, very like 

 large warts ; white, tubercles purple-brown at the 

 top ; columella white, marked with red lines ; aper- 

 ture ovate, slightly canaliculated at both ends ; 

 lip thickened, radiately grooved. 

 Sowerby, Jun., Conch. Illus., Ranella, f. '20. 



Hab. ? 



This very remarkable species, of which there is a spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum, has the columella marked 

 with red lines, somewhat after the manner of the Ranella 

 cruentata. The large wart-like tubercles with which it 

 is encircled are peculiarly characteristic. 



