536 VOLUTA. 



Lamarck says it differs in being of an orange or reddish co- 

 lour without any band, in the spire being short, and more 

 strikingly coronated with distant nodules, and in having gra- 

 nulated grooves extending over the whole surface of the body- 

 whirl. 



mendicaria. 8*2. Shell ovate, slightly striated, 

 with a somewhat granulated spire ; pillar 

 smooth ; outer lip gibbous and denticulated. 



Voluta mendicaria. Linneeus Si/st. Nat. p. 11 91. Born. 



Mus. p. 224. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 218. Gmelin, p. 



3448. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 118. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 50. Lister Conch, t. 826. 



f. 47- Glial ter, t. 52. f. E. Knorr, iv. t. )6. f. S. 



Martini, ii. p. 132. t. 44. f. 460 and 401. Enc. Method. 



t. 375. f. 10, a and b. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Petiver. Asia. Linneeus. Coasts 



of Mexico. M'uller. 

 Shell about half an inch long, and a little more than half as 

 broad, strong, solid, and narrowing from the middle almost 

 equally towards the base and apex ; the colour is black with 

 two, or sometimes three white transverse bands, which are 

 generally nearly as broad, and sometimes still broader than 

 the black interstices ; aperture narrow. 



nana. 83. Shell ovate, ribbed longitudinally, and 

 at the base transversely grooved • pillar three- 

 plaited ; outer lip denticulated. 



Voluta rustica, Var. S. Gmelin, p. 3447. 

 Voluta, No. 1 10. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 273. 

 Martini, ii. p. 132. t. 44. f. 45y. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Martini. 



Shell about eight lines long, and not quite half so broad, strongly 

 ribbed longitudinally, and the interstices crenulated ; the base 

 is also transversely grooved forming nodules, and marked 

 with alternate black and brown bands ; the upper part of 

 the shell is mottled, and sometimes the half, and sometimes 

 the whole of a rib is either black or white on one whirl, and 

 the rib of the whirl next above it is of the opposite colour. 



microzonias. 84. Shell ovate, obtusely ribbed 

 longitudinally, and at the base transversely 

 wrinkled ; pillar three-plaited. 



