558 VOLUTA. 



lated dark reddish brown longitudinal stripes, which are 

 studded on one side with white spots. 



olivaria. 142. Shell ovate-fusiform, nearly smooth, 

 with obsolete transverse striae, and the pillar 

 five-plaited. 



Mitra olivaria. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 202. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 371. f. 3. 



Inhabits 



Shell two inches long, and about ten lines broad, whitish, with 

 two remote transverse brown bands, of which one occupies 

 the summit, and the other is near the bottom of the whirls. 

 Lamarck says it somewhat resembles V. Dactylus, but is 

 larger and has its spire much more produced, and he has 

 quoted Lister, t. 813. f. 23 a, which is more like V. cre- 

 nulata. 



nubila. 143. Shell ovate-fusiform, emarginate, 

 transversely striated, and slightly wrinkled 

 longitudinally ; pillar with five plaits ; outer 

 lip crenulated. 



Variety A. With longitudinal interrupted reddish brown 

 stripes, and the pillar rive-plaited. 



Voluta nubila. Gmelin, p. 3450. Schreibers Conch, i. 

 p. 122. Chemnitz, xi. p. 17. t. 177. f. 1705 and 1706. 



Variety B. Clouded with yellow, and irregular reddish brown 

 spots ; pillar four-plaited. 



Mitra versicolor. Martyn Univ. Conch, i. t. 23. La- 

 marck Jinn, du Mus. xvii. p. 200. 



Inhabits the Friendly Islands. Martyn. 



Shell two inches and a half long, and near an inch broad, yel- 

 lowish and irregularly clouded with different shades of red- 

 dish brown ; the whirls are slightly convex, and the trans- 

 verse striae marked with hollow dots. 



pertusa. 144. Shell oval, emarginate, with hollow 

 punctured stria? ; outer lip denticulated ; pil- 

 lar five-plaited. 



Voluta pertusa. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1 193. 



Voluta pertusa, Var. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 229. Schreibers 



Conch, i. p. 127. 

 Voluta Cardinalis. Gmelin, p. 3458. 

 Mitra archiepiscopalis. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 



199. 



