514 VOLUTA. 



Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphius. Brazils. Linnaus. Mouths 

 of the Niger. Adanson. Batavia. Martini. South Sea. 

 Solander. 



Shell from one to three inches long, and the breadth is gene- 

 rally about two-fifths of the length. Of the varieties in co- 

 lours and markings, which are almost endless,f a few only of 

 the most striking are here enumerated, and those with the 

 more elevated spire probably ought to constitute a separate 

 species. Linnaeus and Lamarck appear to me to have erred 

 in the opposite extremes, for the former has expressed a 

 doubt whether there is more than one species of olive, and 

 the latter has described fifty-nine. 



cruenta. 32. Shell sub-ovate, slightly gibbous ; 

 spire elevated, with a wide and deep suture; 

 belt simple; throat orange. 



Voluta cruenta. Solander's MSS. 



Voluta Ispidula. Martini, ii. p. 160. t. 46. f. 491 and 492. 

 Voluta Ispidula, Var. e. Gmelin, p. 3443. 

 Oliva guttata. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xvi. p. 313. 

 Lister Conch, t. 720. f. 4 and 5. Rumphius, t. 39. f. 6. 

 Petiver Amh. t. 22. f. 5. Gualter, t. 23. f. Q. Knorr, 

 ii. t. 10. f. 6 and 7. Enc. Method, t. 368. f. 2. 



Variety. Shell transversely striated. 



L'Olive a Gouttes violettes striee. Favanne, ii. p. 810. 1. 19. 

 f. B4. 



Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphius. Isle of France. Favanne. 



Shell near two inches long, and the breadth is about two-fifths 

 of the length ; the colour is yellowish white or flesh-colour 

 with purple spots, and the variety differs only in being mark- 

 ed with fine transverse stria?. It is obvious, from his refer- 

 ence to Rumphius, f. 6, that Linnaeus has blended V. cruen- 

 ta with V . Ispidula, and both Martini and Favanne have 

 considered it to be the latter species, from which in all re- 

 spects it is perfectly different. 



f " La couleur de cette coquille est pea constante. J'en ai de blanches, de 

 jaunes, de jaunes-livides, de jaunes-vertes, et meme de verdatres sans aucun me- 

 lange. J'en ai aussi qui, sur ces differens fonds, sont tachees, tigrees, marbr£es, 

 ou couvertes de zig-zags, qui s'etendcnt tantot snr leur longueur, tantot sur leur 

 largeur. Ces taches, ces points, cos bandes, et ces lignes, sont cendres, uoirs, ou 

 bleuatres dans les unes ; brims, rougeatres, ou pourpres dans les autres : enfin 

 leur melange est si varie, que ce seroit perdre son temps que de faire remune- 

 ration de tontes celles qui out et6 decrites ou figurees par les auteurs. Je me 

 suis contente de citer une vingtaine des principales varietes, aiucquelles on peut 

 rapporter toutes les autres, dont plus de deux cens sont parvenues a ma cou- 

 noissance. Leur interieur est aussi blanc, jaune, violet, ou pourpre fence. — 

 Adanson Hist. Nat. du Senegal, p. 63. 



