564 VOLUTA. 



Voluta Vespertilio. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1194. Marti- 

 ni, iii. p. 245. t. 97 and 98. f. 936 to 939- Born Mus. 

 p. 230. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 234. Chemnitz, x. p. 147 

 and 148. t. 149- f- 1397 to 1400; and xi. p. 14. t. 176. 

 f. 1 699 and 1 700. Gmelin, p. 3461. Schreibers Conch. 

 i. p. 129. Shaw Nat. Misc. xiv. t. 558. Lamarck Ann. 

 du Mus. xvii. p. 63. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 294, and Kirch, f. 295. Lister Conch. 

 t. 807. f. 16, and t. 808. f. 17. Rumphius, t. 32. f. H. 

 Pettier Gaz. t. 70. f. 10, and Amb. t. 15. f. 8. Gualter, 

 t. 28. f. F, G, I, M, and V. Klein Ost. t. 5. f. 89- Se- 

 ba, iii. t. 67- Knorr, i. t.22. f. 3, and ii. t. 6. f. 4. Fa- 

 vanne, t. 23. f. A 1. Erie. Method, t. 378. f. 2. 

 Variety B. With the spire more produced and obsoletely rau- 

 ricated. 

 Voluta Pellis-serpentis. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. 



p. 63. 

 Rumphius, t. 32. f. I. Petiver Amb. t. 15. f. 12. Enc. 

 Meth. t. 578. f. 1. 

 Variety C. With the spire more produced and the summit un- 

 armed. 



Voluta mitis. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 64. 

 Seba, iii. t. 57. f. 4 and 5. Martini, iii. t. 98. f. 940. 

 Variety D. With the whirls reversed. 



Chemnitz, ix. part 1. p. 53. t. 104. f. 888 and 889- 

 Inhabits Jamaica. Lister. Amboyna. Rumphius. Philippine 

 Islands. Petiver. East and West Indian Ocean. Linnaus. 

 China. Martini. 

 Shell usually three or four inches long, and more than half as 

 broad, white, yellowish, pale olive or fulvous, with brown 

 angular streaks, or otherwise marked in a variety of ways, 

 and Chemnitz has figured a variety with a broad white trans- 

 verse band round the body-whirl ; the breadth of the shell 

 also varies considerably, and the spines in some specimens 

 are thrice as long as in others. The summit of the spire is 

 rounded, with the whirls concave, and the inside is white. 

 Born has described a shell more than eight inches and a half 

 long, and five inches broad. 



iMPERiALis. 155. Shell emarginate; spire with 

 curved spines, and the summit slightly mam- 

 millary ; pillar four-plaited ; throat yellow. 



Voluta imperialis. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 183, 

 lot 3913. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 62. 



