VOLUTA. 511 



erythrostoma. 30. Shell cylindrical; spire small, 

 conical, with a projecting appendage over the 

 upper angle of the aperture ; throat orange- 

 coloured. 



Cylindrus erythrostomus. Meuschen Mus. Gevers. p. 376. 

 Oliva erythrostoma. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 309. 

 Voluta Porphyrea, Var. 0. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 202. Gme- 

 lin, p. 3438. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 100. 

 Voluta Oliva, Var. f. Born Mus. p. 214. Solander's 



MSS. 

 Le Flacon couronne. Favanne, ii. p. 822. t. 19. f. L 1. 

 Gualter, t. 24. f. O. Argenville, 1. 13. f. N. Seba, t. 53. 

 f. A, B. Regenfuss, t. 2. f. 15. Knorr, iii. t. 2. f. 3. 

 Martini, ii. t. 45. f. 476 and 477. Enc. Method. t.36l. 

 f. 2. 

 Variety. With remote longitudinal stripes, and the throat pale. 

 Oliva tremulina. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 3 10. 

 Lister Conch, t. 727. f. 14. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna, Nicobar Islands, Coroman- 

 del, Isle of France, and Cape of Good Hope. Favanne. 

 South Seas. Solander. 

 Shell two or three inches long, and less than half as broad, 

 yellowish white marbled with pale orange, and marked with 

 two interrupted purplish brown broad transverse bands, be- 

 sides a third on the belt at the base ; the margin of the outer 

 lip is white, and with this exception the whole inside is of a 

 rich orange colour. Linnaeus appears from his references to 

 have confounded this species with V. Porphyrea, of which 

 Gmelin has followed Schroeter in placing it as a variety ; but 

 the shape is more cylindrical, the markings entirely different, 

 and in all respects it has a greater affinity to V. Oliva. I 

 have followed Martini, Meuschen, and Favanne, in consi- 

 dering it a distinct species, and Martini, f. 519, (which is 

 La Brocatelle of Favanne) is probably a variety. 



oliva. 31. Shell sub-cylindrical ; spire short, de- 

 pressed, with the whirls thickened at the 

 base and ending in a projecting claw; belt 

 single. 



Voluta Oliva. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1188. Born Mus. p. 

 213. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 203. Gmelin, p. 3439. 

 Schreibers Conch, i. p. 101. 

 Variety A. Whitish, with dotted flexuous somewhat reticu- 



