504 VOLUTA. 



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on each spire, and thickly marked with spiral extremely fine 

 hair-like striae. It has eight whirls, of which the first is very 

 large, and the others small and tapering to a point. The 

 aperture is long and narrow, and the outer lip thin without 

 any margin. Schreibers has must strangely referred to Mar- 

 tini's figures of this species, as well as to several others 

 equally unlike, for Varieties of V. Amis Midcc ! 



flammea. 12. Shell roundish-oval, transversely 

 striated ; body-whirl ventricose, with a wide 

 aperture ; pillar one-toothed. 



Voluta flammea. Gmelin, p. 3435. 



Voluta, No. 103. Schroder Einl. i. p. 271. 



Bulimus variegatus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 336. 



Lister Conch, t. 814. f. 24. Martini, ii. p. 123. t. 43. f. 

 439. Favanne, t. 27. f. E. 



Inhabits 



Shell an inch and a quarter long, and two thirds as broad, 



transversely striated, white, with longitudinal waved red 



bands, and the pillar-lip bordered with yellow. The first 



whirl is much rounded and ventricose, and occupies almost 



the whole of the shell. 



solidula. 13. Shell oblong-ovate, opake, trans- 

 versely sulcated and striated with dots; 

 spire elevated, rather acute ; pillar with two 

 plaits. 



Voluta solidula. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1187.? Schroeter n. 



Litterat. iii. p. 251. t. 2. f. 14 and 15. Chemnitz, x. p. 



154. t. 149- f. 1405. Gmelin, p. 3437. 

 Voluta sulcata. Gmelin, p. 3436. 

 Voluta, No. 104. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 271. 

 Helix Naevia. Gmelin, p. 3656. 

 Bulimus solidulus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 337. 

 Martini, ii. t. 43. f. 440 and 441. Kammerer Cab. Rud. 



t. 8. f. 3. 

 Inhabits the Southern Ocean. Kccmmerer. China. Hum- 

 phreys. 

 Shell varying from three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a 

 quarter long, and about half as broad, transversely sulcated, 

 of a greyish white colour, and thickly marked between the 

 grooves with four-sided dark spots in a crowded and regular 

 series. The body-whirl is somewhat cylindrical, and occu- 

 pies three-fourths of the shell, and about the middle is 



