144 SPECIFIC 



Specimen white, with very pale reddish brown 

 angular streaks and two obsolete bands. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean. 



The varieties of this species are so numerous, 

 and many of them so nearly allied to Ispidula and 

 Utriculus, that it is scarcely possible to distinguish 

 them. The characters of the three species are ill 

 defined, and applied indiscriminately to each. It 

 were perhaps better to confine the shells with a 

 flattened spire to Oliva, those with a very long one 

 to Utriculus, and the intermediate degrees to Ispi- 

 dula. The annexed specimen would then be a 

 variety of Ispidula. 



Fig. 3. V. Persicula. 



Shell smooth; spireretuse, umbilicate; columella 

 with seven plaits ; margin of the outer lip crenate. 

 Lister Conch. Tab. 803. Fig. 9. 

 Specimen white, with chesnut transverse lines. 

 Inhabits the African Sea and Senegal. 



Fig. 4. V. Papalis. 



Shell emarginate, transversely striate ; margin 

 of the whorls and outer lip denticulate; columella 

 with foiu' plaits. 



