MITRA. VOLUTA. iE, 
M.stTRIATULA. Sub-turreted, acute, fulvous, 
finely striated transversely ; sutures rather obso- 
lete; pillar with five or six plaits, 13, but gene- 
rally much less. KE. 372. 6. 
VOLUTA. 
Shell oval, more or less ventricose ; summit obtuse 
or mammillary, emarginate at base, and without 
a canal; columella plaited, the inferior folds 
largest and most oblique; no pillar-lip. 
V. ETHIOPICA. Obovate, ventricose, chestnut- 
brown, sometimes with one or two brown bands; 
spire with numerous short depressed nearly straight 
spines, which are continued on the body-whorl ; 
pillar with four plaits. 4. W. 21. 175. 
V. MELO. Very ventricose; the apex nar- 
rowed, yellowish white, with about three rows of 
thinly scattered brown spots; spire unarmed, al- 
most concealed ; pillar with four plaits. 6. W. 
21. 185. 
V. cymBium. Ovate, clouded and waved 
with chestnut; suture deeply channelled; spire 
of two very short obtuse volutions; inner lip 
chestnut; plaits of the columella variable. 53. 
We S9'178. | 
V. NEPTUNI. Obovate, ventricose, tumid, 
brownish red, covered with a brown epidermis ; 
in the adult the spire is concealed, and encircled 
