VOLUTA. 563 



Martini, Meuschen, Solander, and most other authors, ex- 

 cept Schroeter and Gmelin. It is of the same size, but the 

 colour is olive, with decussated paler bands dotted with 

 brown, and the spire is more produced at the summit. 



plicata, 152. Shell emarginate, longitudinally 

 plaited and angular, and transversely groov- 

 ed; spire nodulous; pillar with twelve plaits, 

 and the throat orange. 



Voluta sulcata. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 68. 

 Voluta musica, Var. §. Gmelin, p. 5460. 

 Chemnitz, x. p. 15 1, t. 149- f. 1403 and 1404. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 



From Chemnitz's account this shell is of the same size and ha- 

 bits as V. musica, from which it differs in not having any of 

 its peculiar markings, and in being transversely grooved and 

 longitudinally channelled throughout. The colour is brown- 

 ish white, and the inside orange. 



vexillum. 153. Shell emarginate, smooth, white, 

 with orange bands, and the whirls obtusely 

 nodulous; aperture effuse ; pillar eight-plait- 

 ed. 



Voluta Vexillum. Chemnitz, x, p. 152. Vign. 20. f. A and B. 



Gmelin, p. 3464. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 72. 

 Voluta Arausiaca. Solander s MSS. Portland Catalogue, 



p. 26. lot 611. Shaw Nat. Miscellany, li. t. 52. 

 Voluta, No. 102. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 270. 

 Murex Arausiacus. Mus. Gevers. p. 326. No. 765. 

 Rumphius, t. 37- f. 2. Argenvilte App. t. 2. f. G. Knorr, 

 v. t. 1 f. 1. Spengler Selt. Conch, t. 1. f. FF. Marti- 

 ni, iii. t. 120. f. 1093. Favanne, t. 33. f. O 1. Kam- 

 merer Cab. Rudo/st. t. 8. f. 1 and 6. Martyn Univ. 

 Conch, iii. t. 82. Enc. Method, t. 381. f. 1- 

 Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphius. East Indian Ocean. Chem- 

 nitz. 

 Shell three inches long, and one and three-quarters broad, 

 white or yellowish white, with transverse orange bands, which 

 are generally more or less divided as they approach the outer 

 lip. The spire is sometimes much produced at the apex. 



vespertilio. 154. Shell emarginate, with acute 

 spines on the whirls; pillar four-plaited; 

 throat white. 



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