VOLUTA. 575 



Variety B. With two dark transverse bands, and the spines 

 crowded and converging. 

 Voluta JEthiopica, Var. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. 



p. 58. 

 Knorr, ii. t. 4. f. 1. Martini, ill- 1. 74. f. 782. Enc. Method. 

 t. 388. f. 5. 

 Variety C. With a pale obsolete band, and i\ ie spines 

 crowded and converging. 

 Voluta JEthiopica. Solander's MSS. Lamarck Ann. du 



Mus. xvii. p. 58. 

 Lister Conch, t. 801. f. 7 b. Argenville, t. 17. f. F. Seba, 

 iii. t. 65. f. 4 and 1 1, and t. 66. f. 9- Martini, iii. t. 73. 

 f. 777 to 779, and t. 74. f. 783. Favanne, t. 28. f. B 2. 

 Enc. Method, t. 387. f- 1. 

 Variety D. Uniform pale brown, with the spines incurved. 

 Seba, iii. t. 64. f. 2. Martini, iii. t. 75. f. 785. Favanne, 

 t. 28. f. B 1. Enc. Method, t. 387. f. 2. 

 Variety E. White marbled with brown, and the spines short 

 and distant. 

 Voluta amphora. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 30, 



lot 708. 

 Voluta Diadema. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 57. 

 Gualter, t. 29- f. H. Seba, iii. t. 65. f. 12, and t. 66. f. 1 

 to 3, 7, and 10. Martini, iii. t. 74. f. 780. Favanne, 

 t. 28. f. B 4. Enc. Method, t. 388. f. 2. 

 Variety F. Brown marbled with white, and the spines pro- 

 duced. 

 Voluta Cithara. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 96, 



lot 2122. 

 Voluta armata. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 57. 

 Seba, iii. t. 65. f. 1 and 2. Martini, iii. t. 76. f. 787 and 

 788. Favanne, t. 28. f. B 3. Enc. Method, t. 388, 

 f. 1. 

 Inhabits the Persian Gulf. Bonanni. Cape of Good Hope. 

 Martini. China, Japan, Amboyna, and the Molucca Is- 

 lands. Humphreys. 

 Shell varying in length from five to ten inches, and a specimen 

 fifteen inches long is mentioned in the Portland Catalogue, 

 lot 3950 • the breadth is sometimes half, and sometimes 

 nearly equal to three-fourths of the length ; the difference in 

 the spines, as well as in the size and the colour, is also so 

 striking, that Dr. Solander was induced to divide the shells 

 which compose V. Mthiopica of Gmelin into four species, 

 and Lamarck has encreased the number to five, but they run 

 so much into each other that I am unable to fiud any suffi- 



