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Shell oblong, fusiform, rather tliin, smooth, transversely and very 

 finely striated, longitudinally ribbed, yellowish bro\Mi with close-set' 

 undulated chesnut lines, spire subacuminate ; volutions 6-7, longi- 

 tudinally ribbed, subtuberculated in the middle ; the last very large, 

 acuminated anteriorly ; aperture large and narrow, outer lip tliin ; 

 columella with 4 rather obsolete folds. 



A single specimen of this remarkable Volute w^as brought to 

 England by M. Margmer ; it is now in the British Museum. There 

 is some resemblance between tliis and Y. lyrseformis, Kiener. 



57. VoLUTA Nucleus (pi. Iv. f. 116.), Lam. 



Testa ovata, crassiuscula, fulva, vel fulvescente, maculis seu punc- 

 tis castaneis albidisque transverse seriatim dispositis notata; spira 

 breviuscula, conica acuminata ; anfractibus 6 ad 7, duobus primis 

 minimis, Isevibus, ceeteris longitudinaliter costatis, ultimo antice 

 transversim striato ; apertura ovab, postice subacuminata, columella 

 pHcis duabus anticis majoribus, tertia parva, nonnullis obsoletis. 



Shell ovate, thickish, fulvous or fulvescent, with chesnut and 

 wdiitish spots or dots arranged in transverse rows ; spire rather short, 

 conical, acmninated, volutions 6 to 7, the two first very small and 

 smooth, the remainder longitudinally ribbed, the last transversely 

 striated anteriorly ; apertiu'e oval, subacimiinated posteriorly ; colu- 

 mella with two chstinct anterior folds, a third quite small, and several 

 others nearly obsolete. 



Prom Austraba. ScJmhert and Wagner have given it under the 

 name of V. Perdicina. Tliis species has much the appearance of a 

 little Harpa ; it may nevertheless be very easily distinguished from 

 the fossil V. Harjnila, wliich is much more elongated, and wliich has 

 numerous small folds on the posterior part of the columella. 



58. VoLUTA FESTiVA (pi. Hi. f. 79, 80.), Lain. 



Testa ovato-fusiformi, crassiuscula, subventricosa, longitudina- 

 liter costata, glaberrima, carneolata, macuhs HneoKs verticaHbus, 

 guttisque f'ulvis subseriatim ornata; spira subelongata, anfracti- 

 bus 6-5-, primis 1-g- papillam efformantibus, cseteris 4 ad 5 costis 

 obtusis longitudinalibus instructis, costis prope suturam obsoletis ; 

 anfractu ultimo antice subacuminato, transversim striato; colu- 

 mella antice triphcata, plicis perobhquis. 



Shell ovate-fusiform, thickish, somewhat ventricose, longitudi- 

 nally ribbed, very smooth, with fulvous spots, vertical luies, and 

 dots, arranged in rows ; spire somewhat elongated, with a papillary 

 apex of 1^ volutions, the remaining four or five volutions with ob- 

 tuse longitudinal ribs, wliich are nearly obsolete at the suture ; last 



