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is figured in the same splendid work. The entire surface 

 is covered with a remarkably fine scarlet-brown net-work^ 

 very closely arranged transversely, so that the triangular 

 spots of white, which appear here and there, are unusually 

 longitudinal, whilst the three bands, which are somewhat 

 indistinctly formed by a darker deposit of the colour, are 

 unusually narrow^ed. 



Conspicuous, also, is the Voluta piperata, or Peppered 

 Yolute. The painting of this beautiful species in all its 

 detail is too minute to be rendered faithfully. But the eye 

 rests upon its general form and hue with pecuHar pleasure, 

 as figured in the same work. The entire surface is peppered 

 with small orange-brown dots, and over this are numerous 

 rather distant jagged olive-black streaks, running in zigzag 

 style from the sutures to the base. About one-half is 

 })artially obscured, at intervals, by three bands of greenish- 

 white film, the pattern being seen through it. The 

 species is at present unique, in the collection of Thomas 

 TSorris, Esq. 



Xew and beautiful Yolutes, wdth some of extreme rarity, 

 are figured in the ^ Conchologia Iconica,' and, while looking 

 at them, the mind recurs with equal delight and thankful- 

 ness to the gift thus given, for transferring the forms and 



