VOLUTA.— Plate XXI. 



sprinkled with very deep brown large linear dots, lip 



and columella bright orange camelion. 

 SowERBY, Tankerville Cat. App. p, 28, pi. i, f. 3. 

 Jlrib. Australia; Macgillivray. 



When Mr. Sowerby named this shell ' The Beautiful,' 

 he little anticipated so complete a verification of the term 

 as we find in the specimen before us. The species has only 

 been known, hitherto, in a worn, discoloured state ; in the 

 shell here figured, collected in Australia by Mr. Mac- 

 gillivray, and presented to the British Museum by the 

 Earl of Derby, the painting is in its perfection, and a more 

 beautiful object it is not easy to conceive. 



The Valuta pulehra is nearest aUied to V. vesperdlio, 

 but may be readily distinguished by its dift'erent style of 

 net-work colouring and the sprinkling of dark oblong 

 blotches, over the tubercles, around the middle, and at 

 the base. 



Species 55. (Mus. Brit.) 



VoLUTA BUM<ATA. Fol. testd oblongo-cyliiidraced, tenui- 

 cidd, sjnrd brevi, obtusd, apic.e papillari, anfracUbm 

 lavibus, lumidiusculis, siipenu; contractk, columella 

 bipUcatd, pUcis basalibus, aperturd angustd, prope ad 

 spiram ascendente, labro vix incrassato ; fulvd, linek 

 imdiilaiis confusk maculkque castanek promkcue pictd. 



The hubble-like Volute. Shell oblong-cylindrical, 

 rather thin, spire short, papillary at the apex, whorls 

 smooth, rather swollen, contracted at the upper part, 

 folumella two-plaited, plaits basal, apertui-e narrow, 

 ascending nearly to the spire, lip scarcely thickened ; 

 fulvous, promiscuously painted with confused waved 

 lines and chestnut blotches. 



SwAiNsoN, Zoological Illustrations, Second Series. 



Hub. .\lgoa Bay, South Africa. 



A very remarkable species, the most abnormal form of 



the genus, of which there are two specimens in the 



British Museum. 



