568 VOLUTA. 



ceramica. 162. Shell ovate, acute with diverging 

 spines; pillar with about five plaits. 



Voluta Ceramica. Linn&us Syst. Nat. p. 1195. Martini, 

 iii. p. 254. t. 99- f. 943. Born Mus. p. 233. Schroeter 

 Einl. i. p. 239- Gmelin, p. 3462. Schreibers Conch. 

 i. p. 131. 



Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 286, and Kirch, f. 287- Lister Conch. 

 t. 829. f- 51. Rumphius, t. 24. f. A, and t. 49. f. L. 

 Petiver Amb. t. 11. f. 13. Gualter, t. 55. f. D. Ar- 

 gentine, 1. 15. f. E. Knorr, ii. t. 2. f. 2. Favanne, t. 



24. f. C 3. 



Inhabits the coasts of Ceram, one of the Molucca Islands. 

 Linnaus. Indian Ocean. D'Avila. Coromimdel. Martini. 



Shell three inches and three-quarters long, and two inches and 

 a quarter broad, with the spire conical, and the base some- 

 what acuminated ; the colour is blackish brown, irregularly 

 variegated with white ; the pillar has three strong, and two 

 intermediate smaller plaits. 



pyrum. 163. Shell oblong, somewhat beaked, stri- 

 ated and slightly nodulous transversely ; 

 spire produced; pillar three-plaited. 



Voluta Pyrum. Linnceus Syst. Nat. p. 1195. Bom Mus. 



p. 234. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 240. Gmelin, p. 3403. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 131. 

 Voluta ponderosa. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 



25, lot 566. 



Murex Sacrificator. Mus. Gevers. p. 324, No. 745. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. t. 194. Lister Conch, t. 815. f. 25. 

 Gualter, t. 46. f. C. Knorr, vi. t. 39. f. 1. Martini, 

 iii. t. 95. f. 916. Favanne, t. 35. f. I 1. Enc. Method. 

 t. 390. f. 2, b and c. 

 Junior. Voluta Pyrum. Solander's MSS. Chemnitz, xi. 

 p. 12. t. 176. f. 1697 and 1698. 

 Turbinellus Pyrum. Lamarck Syst. p. 83. 

 Lister Conch, t. 8 16. f. 26 and 27. Rumphius, t. 36. f. 7- 

 Knorr, vi. t. 27. f. 2. Martini, iii. p. 211. t. 95. f. 918 

 and 919- Encyc. Meth. t. 390. f. 2, a. 

 Variety. With the whirls reversed. 



Chemnitz, ix. part 1. p. 51. t. 104. f. 886 and 887- 

 Inhabits Tranquebar and Ceylon. Chemnitz. Madagascar. 



Humphreys. 

 Shell when at maturity about five inches long, and hardly half 

 as broad, pear-shaped, ponderous, smooth, of an uniform 



