VOLUTA. 535 



ferrugata. 79. Shell sub-oval, ventricose, trans- 

 versely ribbed, and the pillar four-plaited. 



Voluta ferrugata. Solander's MSS. 



Voluta, No. 129. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 277. 



Mitra cucumerina. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 215. 



Martini, iv. t. 150. f. 1398 and 1399- Enc.Meth. t. 375. 

 f.l. 



Inhabits 



Shell rather more than an inch long and about two tbJH« as 



broad, remarkably ventricose in the middle, and contn cting 



towards both extremities ; the colour is orange or reddish 



brown, with a more or less interrupted white band in the 



middle. 



patriarchalis. 80. Shell ovate, solid, transversely 

 striated and angulated, with longitudinal 

 plaits forming nodules on the margins of the 

 whirls : base granulated, and the pillar four- 

 plaited. 

 Voluta patriarchalis. Gmelin, p. 3460. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 99. 

 Voluta Corona patriarchalis. Chemnitz, x. p. 166. 1. 150. 



f. 1425 and 1426. 

 Mitra patriarchalis. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 216. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 374. f. 1. 

 Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about eleven lines long and six broad, and the one figured 

 in the Encyclopedic Methodique, which is only half so large, 

 is said by Lamarck to be a young shell ; the colour is dirty 

 white tinged with yellowish brown at the base, and marked 

 round the middle of the whirls with a broad chestnut band ; 

 the sutures are distinctly crenulated. 



muriculata. 81. Shell ovate, solid, transversely 



grooved, and the grooves granulated; spire 



short, angulated and coronated ; pillar with 



four plaits. 



Voluta patriarchalis, Var. Gmelin, p. 3460. 



Voluta Corona patriarchalis, Var. Chemnitz, x. p. 167. t. 



150. f. 1427. 

 Mitra muriculata. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 216. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean ? Lamarck. 

 This species is nearly allied to V. patriarchalis, from which 



