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Species -11. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Voi,i;ta NUCLEI'S. fol. testa ovatd, qiird hrem. apicv 

 ucidu, aiifractibiis longUudinaliter crebricostatis, cosfis 

 pants, gradaiim irregvlarlhus et evuiiidis, aiifnii'/n 

 ultimo sape hie illic varicoso, coluwellti liijiHriilii. pVirix 

 perpancis minutis obsohtis supra; canii/n-J'tisci-src/i/c, 

 f/tsro hie ilJic variegald et piiuctatd, varicibiis labroijue 

 iiigripuiictafis. 



The keenel Volute. Shell ovate, spire short, sharp at 

 tlie apex, whorls longitudinally closely ribbed, ribs 

 small, gradually irregular and fading away, last whorl 

 often varicose hero and there, columella two-plaited, 

 with a few minute obsolete plaits above ; flesh-brown, 

 here and there variegated and dotted with brown, lip 

 and varices black-dotted. 



L.\MAUCK, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes" edit.) vol. x. p. -tO."). 

 J'ohita ptrdicina, Megerle. 



Hab. North Australia ; Jukes. 



The irregular varicose growth of the last whorl appears 



to be characteristic of the species. 



Species 43. (Mus. Brit.) 



VonTA Beckii. Vol. testd fusifonni-oblongd, spird sub- 

 acumiimtd, npice papillari, anfmctibtts transversim 

 siriatis, siipenie concavo-decUmbus, deiiide plicato-tu- 

 berculatis, columella arcuatd,fortifer tripUcatd, aper- 

 turd ovalo-oblongd, lahro shnpliei ; fu/vescei/te, lii/r/.s 

 castaneis undatis hie illic lo/igiludiiialiter picfd. 



Beck's Volute. Shell fusiformly oblong, spire some- 

 what acuminated, papillary at the apex, whorls trans- 

 versely striated, coucavely slanting round the upper 

 part, then phcately tubercled, columella arched, 

 strongly three-plaited, aperture ovately oblong, lip 

 simple ; fulvous, painted longitudinally here and there 

 with waved chestnut lines. 



Broderip, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 43. 



Ihb. — ? 



Tliis is the largest species of the genus known, the ac- 

 companying figure being reduced more than a third from 

 the original specimen. 



Species 43. (Mus. Cuming.) 



VOLUTA ZEBRA. J'ul. trstii unilo-iibluilijii , MariJIIlcUfe- 



J'oniii, crassd, spini lim-i, nji'i,;- si'lijinjiilhiri, mifrtuii- 

 bus Iambus, supenir liKiiidiiisvulis, iin-diains obsolete 

 plicnto-nodulosis, columelld fortiter (puadriplicatd, aper- 

 turd subaiigustd, liibm incrassato, non rejlexo ; ebur- 

 ncn, ant J'r, ■,■!', /i,!, , Ihi'ln, strigis numerosis castaneis 

 sub//e.nn,.> , ,,f,i. 



The zebra \ni,i n, >li,H ovate-oblong, Marginella- 

 shaped, thick, spii-e short, apex rather papillary, 

 whorls smooth, rather swollen round the upper part, 

 middle whorls obsoletely plicately noduled, aperture 

 rather narrow, lip thickened, not reflected; ivory- 

 white or rust-stained, lineated thi-oughout with nu- 

 merous slightly flexuous chestnut streaks. 



Leacu, Zoological Miscellany, vol. i. pi. 12. f. 1. 

 ^fargiiiella radiata, Lamarck. 

 Fuluta radiata, Kieuer. 

 f'oluta stragulata, Megerle. 

 Eadem var., Volnta lineata. Leach. 



Hab. Australia. 



Two states of this species, ditieriug immaterially from 

 each other, were described some five and thu-ty years since 

 by Dr. Leach, in his Zoological Miscellany under the 

 names T . zebra and lineata. Eight years subsequent to 

 this Lamarck describes it among the Marginellcr with the 

 name M. radiata, from a specimen communicated to him 

 by Ml-. Alexander Macleay, Botanist and Secretary of the 

 Linuccan Society, who afterwards settled in Australia. It 

 was then described by Megerle imdcr a fourth name 

 /'. stragulata, and published by Schubert and Wagner in 

 their Supplement to the Conehylien Cabinet of Martini 

 and Cliemuitz. 



December, 1849. 



