SECTION X. 195 



Tuns and Figs among his Buccina Ampul- 

 lacea, Se<aion XIII. and the Partridges, in 

 cap. iv. of Sedion XV. 



Linnaeus likewife places thofe with a 

 wrinkled or pleated pillar, on account of 

 that fl:ru<9:ure, in the genus he calls Vo- 

 luta ; and the Partridges, Tuns, Harps, 

 &c. among his Buccina. 



Rumphius calls them Cochlex Globo- 

 fae, as alfo Argenville, who makes them 

 his fourteenth family ; Davila his ninth 

 family, and divides them into three gene- 

 ra ; Gualtieri has placed the Figs as Coch- 

 leae Pyriformes ; and the Tuns he calls 

 Cocbleaj Caflidiforme.s, and Caffida. 



This family is not very numerous ; how- 

 ever, it contains feme extremely beautiful 

 and curious Shells. 



The fourteenth family is the Caffides 

 Qr Helmets. I define it Shells ferni-glo* 

 bofe, tlie back being very convex or round, 



O 2, the 



