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noso, anfractibus senis, 2-3 iiltimis postice subangulatis, angulo 

 obtuso, plus minusve tuberculato ; tuberculis plerumque parvis, noii- 

 iimiquam validioribus : apertura magna, oblongo-ovata, colmncUa 

 crocea, quadriplicata. 



Shell oblong-ovate, thickish, smooth, greyish flesh colour, sprin- 

 kled y\ii\i small white specks, with 3 transverse bands, consisting of 

 longitudinal fuscous lines ; spire subcorneal, obtuse, \^'ith a papdlarv 

 granose apex ; volutions 6, the 2 or 3 last posteriorly subangular, 

 the angle being obtuse, and more or less tuberculated, the tubercles 

 generally small, sometimes very distinct and pointed ; aperture large, 

 oblong-ovate ; columella saffron-colour, mth four folds. 



Tliis species is never entirely free from tubercles, nor is it ever 

 spinose. From Garden Island, Australia. 



21. VoLUTA NoRiiisii (pi. li. f. 65.), noMs. 



Testa ovata, suboblonga, ventricosa, coronata, cinereo-fidva, ma- 

 culis parvis niveis, aliisque fuscis adspersa, fasciisque duabus trans- 

 versis fuscis, interruptis, hie illic lineis inteiTuptis longitudinaHbus 

 notatis : spira brevi, apice papiUari, granoso, anfractibus senis, ulti- 

 mis duobus spinis brevibus, acutis, coronatis ; apertura magna, ob- 

 longa, intus fusca; columella quadripKcata, plicis duabus anticis 

 validioribus. 



Shell ovate, rather oblong, ventricose, coronated, greyish brown, 

 sprinkled Mith small snow-white and brown specks, with two trans- 

 verse brown interrupted bands, here and there marked with inter- 

 rupted longitudinal lines ; spire short with a papillary granose apex ; 

 volutions six, the last two crowned with short sharp spines ; aper- 

 ture large, oblong, brown within; colmnella with fom- folds, of 

 which the two anterior are prominent. 



Found on the reefs at low water on Dupuch's Island by J. C. 

 Dring, Esq., E. N. In Mr. Cuming^s collection ; Wagner has figured 

 tills species for V. nwosa. 



22. VoLUTA Vespertilio (pi. xlvii. f. 15-23, pi. H. f. 67.). 



Testa turbinata vel ovato-oblonga, crassa, coronata, varie colorata, 

 plerumque pallida, vel carneola, maculis, strigisque angularibus fus- 

 cis, fulvis vel rufis ornata ; spira brevi, obtusa ; apice papiUari, quasi 

 truncato, granoso; anfractibus senis, 2 ad 3 ultimis spinis crassis 

 vel tuberculis plerumque coronatis, nonmmquam fere muticis ; aper- 

 tura oblonga, postice subsinuata, acuminata, labii externi margine 

 postice subangulari, pone angulmn acuto, antice rotmidato, crasso : 

 plicis columellse quatuor validis. 



Shell turbinated or oblong-ovate, tliick, coronated, variously co- 



