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Section C. Pullus papillary. 
a. Shell fusiform ; inner lip effuse ; columella plaits few. 
No. 117. VotutTa WETHERELLII. Sowerby. Tab. XXIII, figs. 4 a—d. 
Votuta WETHERELLII. Sow. 1836. Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., and Journ. of Science, 
3d ser., vol. ix, p. 463, note. 
— —_ Sow. 1840. Min. Con., vol. vii, p. 5; t. 612, figs. 1—5. 
V. testé fusiformi, elongata, ad basin parum emarginatd? in juventd concentrice lineata, 
deinde levi ; lineis confertis, sublilissimis ; spird conicd, apice papillari : anfractibus sex vel 
septem, conveaxis, marginibus ad spiram adpressis: apertura elongato-ovali ; columella sub- 
recta, triplicata ; labro ?; labio effuso. 
Shell fusiform, elongated, slightly produced in front; spire conical, elevated, and 
terminating in an obtuse papillary apex : whorls six or seven, convex, with the margins 
pressed against the preceding volutions, and presenting a broad, shallow depression, 
which runs round the spire between the shoulder and the suture. The earlier whorls 
are ornamented with numerous concentric raised lines; these lines are much crowded, 
and so very fine as to be searcely visible by the naked eye, and do not detract from 
the apparently even surface; the last whorl is smooth. Aperture of a lengthened oval 
form, columella nearly straight, and furnished at maturity with moderately oblique 
folds, of which the one in front is the smallest, and that in the middle the largest; 
inner lip widely spread over the body-whorl, but not extending backwards beyond the 
suture; the base, apparently, but slightly notched, as the columella does not present 
any prominent ridge. The outer lip is not preserved in any specimen I have seen. 
This Volute presents a remarkably close analogy with the well-known Crag species 
V. Lamberti ; but it is a longer, narrower shell, with a much smaller pullus ; and the 
columella presents three unequal folds instead of the four nearly equal folds which 
characterise that species. It appears to be confined to the lower formations in the 
neighbourhood of London, and has not as yet been found, I believe, at Highgate. 
Size.—The actual dimensions cannot be stated accurately ; those of the largest of 
the specimens figured must have been, axis, 5 inches, nearly; diameter, 1 inch and 
8-10ths, nearly. 
Localities —Camden Town, Chalk Farm, Haverstock Hill, Hornsey, Copenhagen 
Fields, Holloway, Whetstone, Potter’s Bar, Bayswater, Brentford, Sheppey. 
