VOLUTA. 229 
transmitted the original description. As it was received from 
Spengler, it is passing strange that Chemnitz, who has availed 
himself so frequently of the rarities in the magnificent collection 
of that excellent conchologist, has not noticed it. Deshayes 
suggests, and with probability, that it was possibly a variety of 
the preceding, founding his belief on the quoted engraving. 
But unfortunately Linneus has likewise annexed the same 
reference to Caffra, with which it agrees most fairly; and, as 
the illustrious French naturalist has himself observed, the 
number of columellar folds (an important feature) does not 
answer to the constant four of that well-known shell. More- 
over, our author asserts that they are small, and that the body 
whorl is only adorned with a single inframedial white spiral 
line, with which, as the amended reading “instruunter” in the 
revised copy inform us (“etiam” was absurd with ‘ destitu- 
untur’’), the smaller turns were also provided. In Caffra, on 
the contrary, two or three broadish ribbands (as in Seba’s 
figure) traverse the final whorl, and the folds are decidedly 
large: it is not impossible, then, that the reference was a mis- 
print. If I might dare to understand the “ Corpus teste duplo 
crassius”’ as the ‘“ body-whorl twice as broad as in the other” 
I could almost fancy the T’urbinella leucozonalis of Lamarck to 
have been intended, a shell of which, even at his later period, 
he failed to find undeniable representations, and of which there 
is an example in the Linnean cabinet: there is no evidence, 
however, that it has the least typical authority, since the name 
Morio does not appear in the list of Volutes possessed by our 
author. It is expedient to forget that such a species has ever 
been constituted. 
Voluta vulpecula, 
This species was pictorially defined in the tenth edition of 
the ‘Systema,’ where a brief description harmonises with a not 
discordant synonymy. The figures of Gualtier and Rumphius, 
the only ones quoted either there or in the ‘Museum Ulrice,’ 
represent the Mitra vulpecula of authors, which shell (Martini, 
Conch. Cab. vol. iv. pl. 148, f. 1866) alone of those contained 
in the Linnean cabinet—unless perhaps we should except the 
