V L U T A 



Species 37. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Voi.UTA TriiXF.ia. / (-/. h^ht „l,lo,nin-nn,tn, hasi siihin 



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,Min7j„s, f/rnn/f lii,„i,r,„ 



at/is, columdlii quadripUcatd ; alba, lineis obliijuk 

 mhjlexuosis castanets eonspicue pictd, mactiUs satura- 

 tiorlbus ad sidiiras, niaci(lis paUidioribus majuribits bi- 

 fdsciatd. 

 Turner's Volute. Shell ohlong-ovate, somewhat trun- 

 cated, spire rather short, a]ics papillary and slightly 

 acuminated, whorls smooth, slanting round the upper 

 part, then rather swollen, columella four-plaited; 

 white, conspicuously j)ainted with slightly flexuous 

 oblique chestnut lines, with darker spots at the 

 sutures, and encircled by two bands of faint spots of 

 larger size. 

 Gr.\y, Griffith's Cuvier's Aiiimal Kingdom, Moll. PI. 40. 



f.l. 

 Hah. South Australia. 



The oblique strong linear painting which characterizes 

 this species must not be confounded with the faint longitu- 

 dinal waved lines which are sometimes present in the 

 V. volva (V. pallida, Gray, of which Mr. Sowerby considers 

 this a variety). The bands are formed of two rows of 

 faint under-colour in blotches, not of riband-like painting, 

 and the shell is uniformly of smaller size. 



Species 38. (Fig. a. Mus. Crotch ; Fig. /;,cMus. Dennison.) 



V^OLUTA FESTIVA. Fol. testd ovato-fiisifonrii, temticidd, 

 rrtate crassiore, spird exsertd, pyramidali, apice rude 

 globoso-papillari, anfractibm IcEvibus, basi striatis, su- 

 perne angulatis, longitudinaliter costatis, costis tumi- 

 diuscttlis, equidistantibus, juxta suturas obsolete, ad 

 angulum compresse tiiberculatis, columella prope basin 

 rude tripUcatd, quarum plied mediand tnajore, plicis 

 nmnerosis temiibns fUformibns, partim obsolelis, supra, 

 apertard oblongd, labro subincrassato ; carneo-albicante, 

 cocci)ieo-ri(fo vivide latifaseiatd, faseiis hie illic inter- 

 rtiptis, atate gradatim evanidis, areis inter faseiis lineis 

 brevibus guttisque fuscis irregulariter notatis, columella 

 aurantid, basi et parte superiori in adidtd intense cas- 

 taneo-nigris, aperturce fauce aurantio tinctd. 



The handsome Volute. Shell ovately fusiform, rather 

 thin, increasing thicker with age, spire exserted, 



November. 



pyramidal, rudely globoscly papillary at the apc\, 

 whorls smooth, striated at the base, angled round the 

 upper part, longitudinally ribbed, riiis rather swollen, 

 equidistant, obsolete next the sutures, conqiressly 

 tubercled on the angle, columella rudely three-plaited 

 near the base, of which the middle plait is the 

 largest, with numerous fine tkread-likc plaits above, 

 which arc partially obsolete, aperture oblong, lip 

 rather thickened ; flesh-white, broadly banded with 

 bright searlct-red, bands here and there interrujjted, 

 gradually vanishing with age, areas between the 

 bands irregularly marked with short brown lines and 

 blotches, columella orange, base and upper part 

 stained in the adult with deep chestnut-black, in- 

 terior of the aperture tinged with orange. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes' edit.) vol. x. p. 404. 



Ilab. Africa (East Coast ?) 



This beautiful species has only been known hitherto by 

 a worn imperfect specimen in the Museum of the Jardin 

 des riantes, Paris. Lamarck, noting its specific peculiarities, 

 undertook to describe it, about the year 1830, as new, 

 observing that it " approaches V. Magellanica, but is very 

 distinct and more ornamented." It will be seen from this 

 observation, that Lamarck had little notion of the noble 

 growth and bright scarlet colouring of the species, now 

 exliibited in these magnificent specimens from the col- 

 lections of the Rev. W. R. Crotch and Mr. Dennison ; by 

 which it is illustrated in its perfection and in different 

 stages of gi-owth. It will be observed totally to difi'er 

 from V. Magellanica, and cannot be admitted into the 

 same section of the genus. Its true place is with the 

 V. musica and Hebrfea. Mr. Dennison's richly painted 

 specimen, of which the brightness of the colour is not in 

 the least degree exaggerated in our figure, is of rather light 

 structure, the spii-e forming an even pyramid of angular 

 ribs. Before me is another specimen fi-ora the same col- 

 lection more advanced in age, in which the colouring is of 

 a paler scarlet hue, and commences to be broken up in 

 large interrupted patches ; and in the fine adult specimen 

 from Mr. Crotch's collection, the scai'let painting is only 

 partially distributed, the brown fragments of lines re- 

 maining here and there, whilst a rich dark chestnut-black 

 layer of enamel is deposited at maturity about the base 

 and upper extremity of the columella. The columcllar 

 plaits consist of three very prominent ones at the base, of 

 1849. 



