578 VOLUTA. 



olla. 183. Shell ovate, emarginate, with the 

 whirls of the spire channelled, and the margin 

 rounded ; pillar about three-plaited. 



Voluta Olla. Linnaus Syst. Naif. p. 11 96. Martini, in. 

 p. 48- t. 71. f. 766. Bom Mus. p. 237. Schroeter 

 Eird. i- p- 245. t. 1. f. 14. Gmelin, p. 3467. Schreibers 

 Conch, i. p. 137. Lamarck Ann. du. Mus. xvii. p. 60. 

 Vonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 6. Lister Conch, t. 794. 

 f. 1. Gualter, t. 29. f. A. Argenville App. t. 2. f. H. 

 Klein Ost. t. 5. f. 97. Knorr, vi. t. 22. f. 2. Enc. 

 Method, t. S85. f. 2. 

 Variety. Somewhat elongated, and the papillary summit 

 produced. 



Voluta papillaris. Gmelin, p. 3407. 

 Voluta, No. 235. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 304. 

 Knorr, v. t. 28. f. 7. 

 Inhabits the Philippine Islands. Linnccus. West Indies and 



Spanish Seas. Martini. Mediterranean. Humphreys. 

 Shell three or four inches long, and about half as broad, of an 

 earthy red colour, sometimes, though rarely, slightly mar- 

 bled with brown. Linnaeus has described the pillar with 

 four, other authors with three, and Born with two teeth, and 

 the specimen now before me has only two. Gmelin's V. 

 papillaris is rather too indistinct a species to be quoted 

 with much certainty, for Knorr, v. t. 28. f. 7. is referred to 

 by Born for V. Olla, and by Martini is considered to be a 

 Variety of B. Navicula, whereas Seba, iii. t. 64. f. 9, is 

 also quoted by Gmelin himself, as well as by Chemnitz, for 

 V. Glans, which it most resembles. The species which 

 Gmelin has placed after V. Olla, under the name of V. 

 ampla, does not appear to have any claim to be arranged 

 with the papillary Volutes, and has more the habit of the 

 s>hell which I have supposed to be the LimiEean Bulla 

 Cypraa. 



neptuni. 184. Shell ovate, emarginate, with the 

 spire nearly concealed ; outer lip rather ele- 

 vated and angular at the upper corner; pillar 

 four-plaited. 



Voluta Neptuni. Gmelin, p. 3497- Lamarck Ann. du 



Mus. xvii. p. 59. 

 Voluta Auguria. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 64. 



lot 1448. 

 Voluta, No. 233. Schroeter Einleitung, u p. 303. 



