548 VOLUTA. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 126. 

 Mitra Vulpecula. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xvii. p. 207. 

 Rumphius, t. 29. f. R. Gualter, t. 54. f. B, C. Knorr, 



v. t. 16. f. 3. Seba, iii. t. 49. f- 27 to 30, and 39 and 



40. Favanne, t. 31. f . I 5 and 16. Enc. Method. 



t. 373. f. 5. 

 Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphius. Asiatic Ocean. Linn&us. 



China. Humphreys. 

 Shell about an inch and three quarters long, and one third as 

 broad, in colour sometimes of an uniform brownish yellow, 

 or yellowish white with blackish or dark brown transverse 

 bands ; the aperture is brown at its two extremities ; the pil- 

 lar brownish with white plaits, and the outer lip usually irre- 

 gularly spotted with the same colour. Martyn's Mitra tes- 

 sellata (Univ. Conch, t. 19), which Gmelin quotes as a va- 

 riety of this species, has every appearance of being perfectly 

 distinct. 



costellaris. 113. Shell turreted, emarginate, 

 longitudinally ribbed, and striated transverse- 

 ly; whirls angulated above, and the pillar 

 four-plaited. 



Voluta subdivisa, Var. Chemnitz, x. p. 171. t. 151. f. 1436 



and 1437. 

 Voluta umbrosa. Solanders MSS. 

 Mitra costellaris. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 206. 

 Gualter, t. 54. f. D. Enc. Meth. t. 373. f. 3. 



Inhabits the East Indian Ocean. Chemnitz. 



Shell about two inches long, and one third as broad, with thin 

 longitudinal ribs, and the whirls transversely angulated and 

 flattened towards the sutures ; the colour is dark reddish 

 brown, or sometimes almost black, with two rather narrow 

 transverse white bands, and the pillar has four plaits, of which 

 the lower one is obsolete. 



8UBDIVISA. 114. Shell turreted, emarginate, elon- 

 gated, with slender longitudinal ribs and 

 transverse striae; pillar four-plaited. 



Voluta subdivisa. Chemnitz, x. p. 171. t. 151. f. 1434 and 

 1435. Gmelin, p. 3453. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 119. 

 Voluta citrina. Gmelin, p. 3456. ? 

 Voluta, No. 176. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 289. 

 Mitra subdivisa. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 206. 



