VOLUTA. 565 



Voluta Vespertilio, Var. y. Born Mus. p. 230. Gmelin, 



p. 3461. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 129. 

 Voluta, No. 1 16. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 274. 

 Spengler Sett. Conch, t. 2. f. A A. Martini, iii. p. 244. t. 

 97. f. 934 and 935. Enc. Method, t. 382. f. 1. 

 Variety. Shell angulated, and the spines less produced. 

 Voluta luteostoma. Chemnitz, xi. p. 18. t. 177. f. 1708 



and 1709. 

 Murex luteostomus. Mus. Gevers. p. 326. No. 754. 

 Inhabits the Straits of Malacca, and Philippine Islands. Hum- 

 phreys. 

 Martini says this species varies from two and a half to five 

 inches long, and is rather more than half as broad ; it is 

 white, reddish or ash colour, variously marked with brown, 

 and is nearly allied to V. Vespertilio, from which however 

 it may be readily known by its yellow inside. V. luteostoma 

 of Chemnitz is more distinctly angulated throughout the bo- 

 dy-whirl, or I should have considered it to be only a young 

 shell of this species. 



pacifica. 156. Shell oblong, fusiform, emargi- 

 nate; spire much produced, and transversely 

 angulated and nodulous; pillar with five 

 plaits. 



Voluta Pacifica. Portland Catalogue, p. 190, lot 4039. 

 Chemnitz, xi. p. 21. t. 178. f. 1713 and 1714. Shaw 

 Nat. Misc. xxii. t. 994. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. 

 p. 70. 

 Voluta Arabica. Gmelin, p. 3461. 

 Voluta insularis. Solander's MSS. 

 Buccinum Arabicum. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 52. 

 Inhabits the Pacific Ocean on the coasts of Otaheite. Solan- 

 der. New Zealand. Martyn. Coasts of New Holland. 

 Humphreys. 

 Shell near five inches long, and two inches broad ; pale brown- 

 ish yellow, with irregular longitudinal zic-zac dark brown 

 lines, and a band of broader streaks round the middle of the 

 body-whirl. 



EBRjEA. 157. Shell emarginate, with somewhat 

 acute spines on the whirls ; pillar with five 

 strong and three obsolete plaits. 



Voluta ebrsea, or hebraea. Linn&us Syst. Nat. p. 1 1 94. 



