574 VOLUTA. 



Voluta magnifica. Chemnitz, xi. p. 8. t. 174, and t. 175. 

 Shaw's Nat. Misc. xix. t. 812. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. 

 xvii. p. 69. 

 Inhabits the coasts of New Holland, Norfolk Island, New 



Zealand, and New Caledonia. Chemnitz. 

 Shell near eight inches long, and four broad, with alternate 

 pale and dark broad transverse bands of reddish brown, and 

 marked over the whole with triangular spots of white ; the 

 inside is pale saffron, and the pillar of an orange colour. 



***** Ventricose, and the summit of the spire pa- 

 pillary. 



colocynthis. 177. Shell sub-globular, with a 

 transverse row of nodulous plaits 011 the 

 body-whirl ; spire short, elevated ; pillar two- 

 plaited. 



Voluta Colocynthis. Chemnitz, xi. p. 10. t. 176. f. 1695 

 and 1696. 



Voluta Brasiliana. Portland Cat. p. 186. lot 3958. La- 

 marck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 62. 



La Coloquinte. Favanne Cat. Syst. p. 139. t. 3. f. 661. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Brazil. Humphreys. 

 Shell six inches long, and near four broad, of a pale yellowish 



red colour, longitudinally wrinkled, and armed towards the 



upper part of the body-whirl with a transverse row of distant 



sub-conical nodules ; the pillar and margin of the outer lip 



are orange. 



iETHiopicA. 178. Shell emarginate ; spire crowned 

 with vaulted spines ; pillar four-plaited. 



Voluta iEthiopica. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1 195. Mar- 

 tini, in. p. 58. Born Mus. p. 235. Schroeter Einl. i. 

 p. 242. Gmelin, p. 3465. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 135. 

 Variety, A. With transverse rows of square spots, and the 



spines crowded and converging. 



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

 137, lot 3054. 



Voluta tessellata. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 58. 



Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 1. Lister Conch, t. 797. 

 f. 4. Seba, iii. t. 65. f. 10, and t. 66. f. 6. Martini, iii. 

 t. 74, f. 781. 



