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Shell subcorneal, turbinated, tliickish, transversely grooved, 

 greenish ash-colour, with small chesnut dots, and many pale trans- 

 verse fillets sprinkled with fuscous specks; spire short, conical, 

 with a papillary apex of 2. volutions, the remaining 5 volutions with 

 pointed tubercles, and the last volution crowned with sharp tuber- 

 cles ; aperture oblong, rather oblique, sowewhat angular at both 

 ends ; outer lip thickened, spotted, thin at the posterior edge ; colu- 

 mella with from 12 to ll variable folds, the anterior being generally 

 the larger. 



Easily distinguished from all the varieties of mimca. Lamarck's 

 V. fitlva is merely a Morn variety of this species, and we think his 

 V. cJdoros'ma will prove to be notliing more. We have represented 

 two varieties; f. 77, from Mr. Norris^s collection, and f. 78, from 

 Miss Saul's. 



47. VoLUTA pusio (pi. Iv. f. 119.), Swains. 



Testa ovato-turbinata, crassa,l8evigata, fulvescente, fasciis paUidis, 

 punctisque ful^ds seriatim chspositis cincta ; spira brevi, apice acuto ; 

 anfi'actibus 6, ultimo leviter costato, postice obtuse nodoso ; labio 

 externo subexpanso; columella subincrassata, midtipHcata, plicis 

 nonnidlis validis, aliis intermedhs posticisque parvis. 



Shell ovate-turbinated, tliick, smooth, pale fulvous, with darker 

 coloured bands and spots arranged in rows, spire short, with an 

 acute apex ; volutions 6, the last sHghtly ribbed and obtusely tuber- 

 culated posteriorly ; outer lip somewhat spread ; columella rather 

 tliickened, with many folds, some of which are distinct, and others, 

 wliicli are intermediate and posterior, are small. 



Perhaps this ought to be merely regarded as a variety of Voluta 

 polyzonalis, from which it differs principally in its proportions; 

 being wider and having a shorter spire. We are not acquainted 

 with its locahty. The specimen is in the British Museimi. 



48. YoLTjTA CuMiNGii (pi. Iv. f. 105, 106, 107.), Broderij); 

 Zool. Proc, 1832, p. 33. 



Testa ovato-pyramidali, crassa, albida, cseruleo-castaneo nebulosa, 

 suturas versus nigro-castaneo vittata, spira subelongata, apice acuto ; 

 anfractibus tuberculatis, ultimo subcostato, costis timiicUs, fasciaque 

 subcentrali pallida, lata cincto ; labro tumido, subcontracto, sub- 

 reflexo, acuto, varice interno obliquo submedio ; columeBa 5 ad 6 

 phcata, plicis tribus anticis majoribus, cseteris indistinctis. 



Shell ovate-p)Tamidal, thick, whitish, clouded with blueish ches- 

 nut,and banded near the suture with blackish chesnut ; spire some- 

 what elongated, with an acute apex ; volutions tuberculated, the last 



