550 VOLUTA. 



t^niata. 117. Shell turreted, elongated, longitu- 

 dinally plaited, ribbed and angular, and 

 transversely grooved ; pillar four-plaited ; 

 outer lip striated within. 



Voluta plicaria, Var. 0. Gmelin, p. 3452. 



Voluta plicaria longissima. Chemnitz, x. p. 139 and p. 173. 



t. 151. f. 1444 and 1445. 

 Mitra tteniata. Lamarck Ann. du Mm. xvii. p. 204. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 373. f. 7. 



Inhabits the coasts of Bombay. Chemnitz. 



Shell three and a half inches long, and one fourth as broad ; 

 in colour and markings it resembles V. plicaria, but it is 

 much longer and narrower in proportion to its length, is 

 strongly grooved transversely, and the spinous processes in 

 the longitudinal folds are wanting. Chemnitz considered it 

 to be a distinct species, and Ksemmerer, as well as Gmelin, 

 has placed it as a variety of V. plicaria. 



plicaria. 118. Shell emarginate, angular, and 

 plaited, with the angular projections towards 

 the upper part of each whirl somewhat spi- 

 nous; pillar four-plaited ; outer lip smooth. 



Voluta plicaria. Linnaeus Syst. Nat. p. 1193. Martini, 



iv. p. 211. t. 148. f. 1362 and 1363. Born Mm. p. 227. 



Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 227. Gmelin, p. 3452. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 126. 

 Mitra plicaria. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 205. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 65. Lister Conch, t. 820. 



f. 37. Gualter, t. 54. f. F. Argenville, t. 9- f. Q. 



Knorr, iii. t. 27. f. 4, and vi. t. 12. f. 5. Seba, iii. t. 49- 



f. 23 and 24. Favanne, t. 31. f. 14 and I 7. Enc. 



Method, t. 373. i. 6. 

 Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Linnaeus. China. Humphreys. 

 Shell about two inches long, and two-fifths as broad, white, 

 striated and marked transversely with brown, reddish, or ci- 

 nereous bands; the body-whirl has generally a broad cinere- 

 ous band bordered with brown, and the spire at the apex is 

 brown, reddish, or cinereous; the inside is white, and irre- 

 gularly barred with ciuereous and brown ; the base of the 

 shell both in this species and in V. taniata is slightly recurv- 

 ed. 



