VOLUTA. 221 
for glabella ; it is not, however, 31 of the writing that accom- 
panies it. Our author, in his final list, has not enumerated the 
species among the Volutes that were in his own possession. 
The stated locality is correct. 
Voluta reticulata. 
No difficulty has been experienced by naturalists in recog- 
nising this species (whose presence in his collection has been 
recorded by Linneus), since the single engraving referred to, as 
illustrative, is an acknowledged representation of the well-known 
Cancellaria reticulata, a shell which possesses the features re- 
quired by the description. That species (Kiener, Coq. Viv. 
Cane. pl. 2, f. 1) is still preserved in the Linnean cabinet, and 
alone of its contents answers to the definition. Our author 
having observed how remote was its affinity to the preceding 
and succeeding species, has written in his revised copy “ locanda 
post 431,” that is to say, after the T'urbinelle. 
Voluta mercatorta, 
The cited figures of Petiver and Gualtier represent the 
Columbella mercatoria of authors, which answers satisfactorily 
enough to the detailed characteristics of the species. That 
shell (Sowerby, Thes. Conch. vol. i. pl. 36, f. 80, 31) is still 
preserved in the Linnean cabinet, and alone of its contents 
corresponds with the definition. 
Voluta rustica, 
The three cited figures all represent Coluwmbelle. The one 
delineated by Adanson, being described by him as sulcated, 
cannot be regarded as more than an approximation to a species 
expressly stated to be “ leviuscula,” and must consequently, as 
well as the African locality, attached to the species from its sup- 
posed identity with that Senegal shell, be dismissed from our 
