278 PROCKKDINGS OF TUK MALACOLOGICVT, SOCIETY. 



Two pages of Advertisement [iii] and iv followed by twelve, 

 unnumbered pages of text. 



The first page deals with the "Family, Yolutce. Genus Voluta^\ 

 The latter is divided into tliree "Sections", Cymheoloe, Musicales 

 and Fiisoidese, whose characters are diagnosed. 



The second page deals with Valuta, Sect. I ; V. diadema, Lara, and 

 V. tessellala. Lam. are desci'ibed. 



The third page deals with Valuta, Sect. 2 ; and V. nicosa, Lam. is 

 described. 



The fourth page deals with Valuta, Sect. 2 ; V. mannorata, is 

 described by W. Swainson as a sp. nov. 



The fifth page deals with Valuta, Sect. 3; and V. pacifica, Chemn. 

 and V. tuberculata, are described; the latter as a sp. nov. bv 

 Swainson, who mentions that there is a possibility of its being the 

 V. subnadasa, of Dr. Leach. 



The si.xth page continues Valuta, Sect. 3 ; and V. elangata, and 

 V. angulata, are described as spjy. nov. by Swainson. 



The seventh page goes back to Valuta, Sect. 1 ; and V. (ctniopica, 

 L. and V. meh. Lam. are described. 



The eighth page continues with Valuta, Sect. 1 ; and V. cymhium, 

 Lam. and V. rubiginasa, are described, the latter by Swainson as 

 a sp. nov. 



The ninth page continues with Valuta, Sect. 1 ; and V. alia, Gmel. 

 and V. porcina, Lam. are described. 



The tenth page continues with Valuta, Sect. 1 ; and V. })rubascidalis. 

 Lam. and V. scapha, Gmel. are described. 



The eleventh page deals with Fterocera as a division of the Strombi, 

 and P. aurantia, P. nodosa, 'Qvn^. and P. rabusta, are described. Tlie 

 first is presumably Lamarck's species, and iSlronihus scarpio, Martini, 

 is given as a synonym, the third is described as a sp. nov. by 

 Swainson, and its nearest ally given as P. nodosa, Brug. 



The twelfth page continues Plerocera, and P. elongata, P. millepeda, 

 L. and P. vialacea, A[artiiii, are described. The first is separated 

 from the second, and described as a sp. nov. by Swainson. 



The text ends here ; no more text seems to have been published 

 until the second edition by Sylvanus Hanley in 1841. 



Eight Plates follow, illustrating 



Valuta diadema, Lam. Valuta angulala (under side). 



,, marmorata, Sw. Achatina maginata, var. 



,, nivosa, Lam. Modiola elamjata, Sw. 



,, angulata, Sol. U^iio alatus, Lara. 



[Latin names only given here.] 

 On the outside of the back cover is the following: — " This work 

 is intended to contain accurate and faitlifully coloured figures of 

 sorae of the most beautiful and rare Shells that remain undescribed, 

 or are imperfectly figured by former writers, and which, from their 

 size, cannot conveniently be introduced in the 'Zoological Illus- 

 trations ', now in a course of publication. The unreserved access to 

 some of the principal cabinets in this Country, with which the author 

 has been favoured, will enable him to select as subjects for the work, 



