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ciently constant character to distinguish them. In Variety A, 

 which altogether answers the most compleatly to the Lin- 

 nzean description, the pillar, I believe, is invariably four- 

 plaited, and I have never found the number in C to exceed 

 three ; but in some of the other Varieties the number is 

 more uncertain, and probably depends on the age of the 

 shell 



corona. 179. Shell ovate, emarginate, with longi- 

 tudinal striae ending in spines on the upper 

 margin of the body-whirl; pillar four-plaited. 



Voluta Corona. Chemnitz, x. p. 142. 1. 148. f. 1387 and 



1388. 

 Voluta iEthiopica, Var. y. Gmelin, p. 3466. 

 Voluta ducalis, Var. ? Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 58. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas ? Chemnitz. 



Shell about fourteen lines long and six broad, with longitudi- 

 nal stria?, which on the suture at the upper margin of the 

 body-whirl, are formed into a crown of small very acute 

 spines ; it is of a whitish flesh-colour, and marked with trans- 

 verse rows of small reddish spots ; the spire is slightly ele- 

 vated, and its summit papillary. 



cymbiola. 380. Shell ovate, glabrous, with the 

 whirls nodulous, and the pillar three-plaited. 



Voluta Cymbiola. Chemnitz, x. p. 141. t. 148. f. 1385 



and 1386. Gmelin, p. 3468. 

 Voluta ducalis, Var. C. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. 

 p. 58. 

 Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about two inches long, and one inch broad, whitish, with 

 scattered longitudinal red streaks and spots, and appears 

 from Chemnitz's figure to be nearly allied to V. Corona. 



cymbium. 183. Shell emarginate, ventricose, with 

 the whirls of the epire channelled, and the 

 margin acute ; pillar about three-plaited. 



Voluta Cymbium. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1196. Martini, 

 iii. p. 44. t. 70. f. 762 and 763. Born Mus. p. 236. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 245. and Inn. Ban Conch, p. 19- 

 Gmelin, p. 3466. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvii. p. 60. 



Voluta Cymbium, Var. /?. Kammerer Cab. Rudolst. p. 70. 



