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Voluta Cornicula. Linn&Ui Syst. Nat. p. 1191. Chemnitz, 

 xi. p. '29. t. 179. f. 1731 and 1732. 



Gualter, t. 43. f. N. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus, Islands of St. Thomas 



and St. Croix. Chemnitz. 

 Shell seven or eight lines long, and but little more than one 



third as broad, transversely striated, of an uniform brownish 



yellow or horn-colour, and Linnaeus says it is sometimes 



black. 



schroeteri. 90. Shell oblong-fusiform, nearly en- 

 tire, smooth, of a horn-colour clouded with 

 white and yellowish brown spots; pillar four- 

 plaited. 



Voluta Cornicula. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 221. t. 1. f. 13. 

 Gme/in, p. 3449. 



Mitra Cornicula. Lamarck Ann. du Mm. xvii. p. 210. 



Schroeter Inn. Ban Conch, p. 49. t. 4. f. 2. Chemnitz, xi. 

 p. 30. t. 179. f. 1733 and 1734. 

 Variety B. Shell uniform white. 



Mitra lactea. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xvii. p. 210. 



Chemnitz, xi. p. 31, t. 179. f. 1735 and 1736. Enc. Meth. 

 t. 371. f. 2. 

 Variety C. Shell uniform reddish or yellowish, and the pillar 



three-plaited. 



Mitra lutescens. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 2 10. 



Enc. Meth. t. 372. f. \J. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Guinea. Schroeter. 

 Shell an inch and a quarter long, and one third as broad ; 



white and variously clouded with yellowish or brownish spots, 



or irregularly marked with interrupted longitudinal stripes, 



and Chemnitz has figured a variety which is wholly white. 



acuminata. 91. Shell elongated, with cancellat- 

 ed striae, and the spire much elevated and 

 acute; aperture produced at the base; pillar 

 four-plaited. 



Voluta acuminata. Gmelin, p. 3454. 

 Voluta, No. 131. Schroeter Einl i. p. 278. 

 Martini, iv. p. 233. t. 150. f. 1403 and 1404. 



Inhabits the coasts of Tranquebar. Chemnitz. 



Shell two inches long, and about five lines broad ; of a yellow- 

 ish brown sometimes tinged with violet colour, and marked 



