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hues of those exquisite productions, which must otherwise 

 remain in a great degree unknown. Among these, the 

 noble growth and bright scarlet colouring of the Handsome 

 Volute, Volutaf estiva J are exhibited in drawings from mag- 

 nificent specimens in the collections of the Eev. W. E. 

 Crotch and Mr. Dennison. The shell is, doubtless, from the 

 coast of Africa, but whether the eastern or western remains 

 undecided. Admirably figured, also, is that eminent shell, 

 the *■ Pavilion d^ Orange ' and Orange Flag of early writers 

 — the Plag A^olute, V. vexillimi, still of rare occurrence, and 

 unapproachable by any other species of the genus. The 

 bright orange bands of painting which characterize the 

 shell mostly become divided, on reaching maturity, into 

 two shreds. Neither can the Angled Volute, F. angulata, 

 be omitted. The shell is mentioned as chiefly remarkable 

 from the curious fact, that the animal, which is elegantly 

 spotted all over like a leopard, has a lobe extending from 

 the mantle on the left side, after the manner of a Cowry. 

 It does not, however, secrete a vitrified enamel, but a 

 milky glazed coating, like Cymbium, through which the 

 zigzag marking is mostly visible. " In a specimen before 

 me,'^ writes Mr. Eeeve, "from Mr. Dennison^'s collection, 

 the shell is entirely covered with this glazed coating, flowing 



