VOLUTA 



Plate XIX. 



■Species 44. (Mus. Brit.) 



VoLiTA M.\MiLLA. I'ol. testd ovatd, temii, ventricosd, 

 spird brevi, in mamillam aniplam timiidam dtstorid, 

 anfractibm Itevibus, cohimelld triplicatd, aperturd sub- 

 ampld ; fulvd, strit/is iindatis lonf/ittcdinaliter rdicu- 

 latd, fascia immacidafu medio intermUtente. 



The nipple Volute. Shell ovate, thin, ventricose, spii-e 

 short, distorted into a large swollen nipple, whorls 

 smooth, columella three-plaited, apertm-e rather large ; 

 fulvous, reticulated longitudinally with waved streaks, 

 leaving an unspotted band in the middle. 



Gray; t^owerby, Tliesaiu-us Conch, p. l'(I7. pi. 5i).f. .57, 58. 



Hab. AustraKa. 



This shell is in a very immature state, and there can be 

 little doubt of the swollen apes being a malformation. 

 No importance can be attached to tliis, and I adopt the 

 species only because the painting with its light central 

 band does not agi-ee with any other. 



Species 45. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Von'TA FLAVicANs. Vol. tesld ovatd, vel oblongo-ovatd, 

 basi productd, crassd, spird breviiisculd, upice obtusd, 

 anfractibiis lavibus, aiit longitudinaUter mintdissimi 

 striatis, siiperne tumidiiisculis, interdum squumato- 

 tuberculatis, columdld fortissime qwidripUcatd, apcr- 

 turd sttbangnstd, labro siipeniH siimato ; Jlavicai/te, vi- 

 ridi-fusco infra snturas maculatd et luidiiiue nehulatd. 



The yellowish Volute. Shell ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 produced at the base, thick, spii-e rather short, ob- 

 tuse at the apex, whorls smooth or longitudinally 

 very minutely striated, rather swollen round the 

 upper part, sometimes squamately tubercled, columella 

 very strongly four-plaited, aperture rather naiTow, lip 

 sinuated round the upper pai-t ; yellowish, blotched 

 beneath the sutures, and mottled throughout with 

 greenish brown. 



Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3404. 



Pyrmu Moltkianum, Martini. 

 Volida volvacea, pars, Lamarck. 

 Voluta punctata, Kiener (not of Swainsou). 

 Var. elongata. folula sigiiifer, Broderip. 



Hab. Australia. 



There is no species in which the columellar plaits are 

 so strongly developed as in the V.fiavicans. In some 

 specimens they are raised nearly a quarter of an inch above 

 the surface of the body-whorl, and are always more or less 

 distinctly continued outwardly round the base. The shell 

 is of very solid growth, coloured with an obscure mottled 

 blue or greenish-red, and was known to the early Dutch 

 eonchologists by the name of the ' Bergamot Pear.' 



The shell presented to Mi-. Cuming by Dr. Dalen of 

 Rotterdam, and described by Mr. Broderip as a new species 

 (Pro. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. 232), under the name V. sigiiifer, 

 is an elongated form of V.Jlavicans in which the lip is not 

 quite mature. 



Species 46. (Mus. Dennison.) 



VoLUTA CVMBIOLA. I'ol. testd oblongo-pyriformi, xpird 

 breoi, (ipice obtiisi; papillari, suturis subrudibus, subti- 

 iifcr spinoso-squamatis, anfractibus supernl concave- 

 declicibus, deiitde peculiariter spinoso-squamatis, squa- 

 7)us brevibus, amiis, erectis, subdistatifibus, colnmelld 

 quadriplicatd, aperturd oblongd, labro vix inera^sato ; 

 ciiiereo-virescente, punctis lineisque fuscis brevibus, 

 fulvo-nmbratis, aspersd, suturis nigrofusco /i/imtis, 

 aperturee fauce oUvaceo-cinered. 



The LITTLE BOAT VoLUTE. Shell oblong-pcar-shaped, 

 spire short, obtusely papillary at the apex, obtusely 

 somewhat rude, finely spinosely squamate, whorls 

 coneavely slanting round the upper part, then pecu- 

 liarly spinosely squamate, the scales being sjiort, 

 sharp, erect, and rather distant, columella four-plaited, 

 aperture oblong, lip scarcely thickened ; ash-green, 

 sprinkled with brown fulvous shaded dots and short 

 lines, sutures lineatcd with black-brown, interior of 

 the apertm-e olive-ash. 



Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. vol. x. p. 141. pi. 148. f. 1385, /;. 

 Voluta coroiiala, Kiener. 



Eab. Moluccas. 



Tliis species difi'ers remarkably from any other ; then- 

 is a gi-eat peculiarity in the style of painting, as well as 

 in the short erect spiuc-seales with which it is coronated. 



December, 1840. 



