524 VOLUTA. 



Voluta Conus. Chemnitz, x. p. 103. t. 150. f. 1415 and 

 1416. Gmelin, p. 3349. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 106. 

 Voluta, No. 148. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 281. 

 Mitra Conulus. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 213. 

 Lister Conch, t. 814. f. 23 b. Enc. Meth. t. 382. f. 2. 



Inhabits 



Shell an inch and a quarter long, and half as broad, white, 

 with the form and appearance of a Cone, but has six plaits 

 on the pillar ; it is transversely striated and marked with ex- 

 cavated dots towards the base. The aperture is not effuse, 

 and the species would probably stand better in the fourth 

 division. 



miliaria. 52. Shell ovate, slightly emarginate, 

 white with an obsolete yellowish spire; pil- 

 lar obliquely striated. 



Voluta miliaria. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1189- Gmelin, p. 



3443. 

 Voluta monilis, Var. |3. Gmelin, p. 3444. 

 Voluta, No. JO I. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 270. 

 Le Stipon. Adanson Senegal, p. 79- t. 5. f. 4. ? 

 Martini, ii. p. 109. t. 42. f. 428. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, frequent. Linnaus. Isle of 

 Goree. Adanson. 



This species has not been hitherto ascertained by any subse- 

 quent author, and Linnaeus only says that " it resembles V. 

 monilis, but is smaller, very smooth, and has a fine yellow 

 line on the spire." This description agrees with the shell 

 figured by Martini, to which Gmelin has referred for a Va- 

 riety of V. monilis, and which is described to be only two 

 and a half lines long, and less than half as broad, white, and 

 sometimes banded with yellow. Some specimens have only 

 a yellow line at the suture, and both Martini and Schroeter 

 appear to have considered it perfectly distinct from V. mo- 

 nilis. I have never seen more than five, but Le Stipon of 

 Adanson, which answers in other respects, is described to 

 have eight or ten plaits on the pillar. 



monilis. 53. Shell oblong, entire, white, with the 

 spire obsolete, and the pillar obliquely stri- 

 ated. 



Voluta monilis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 118Q. Born Mus. p. 

 219. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 20S. Gmelin, p. 3443. 

 Schreibers Conch, i. p. 114. 



