FAMILY 11. COLUMELLATA. 255 
Pl]. CCLXXXII. Fig. 2. 
Votuta vorvacea, Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 347. Mar- 
tini, Conch., vol. iii. pl. 95. f. 922 and 923. 
Voluta modesta ? Wood. 
Voluta punctata, Kiener. 
Pl. CCLXXXII. Fig. 3. 
Voxuta rvTILA, Broderip, Zoological Journal, vol. ii. p.30. pl. 3. f.1 to3. 
Voluta aulica, Kiener*. 
Pl. CCLXXXII. Fig. 4. 
Votuta auticat, Solander, MSS. Sowerby, Appendix, Tankerville 
Catalogue, p. xxix. 
MELO, Broderip. 
Testa subovata, ampla, ventricosa, ad basem emarginata, spira brevi, 
apice papillari; anfractibus levibus, spinis cameratis, compressis, 
sepissimé coronatis; apertura ampla; columella vix recta, plicis 
infimis maximis ; labro tenui, simplici, acuto, nunquam revoluto. 
De Montford suggested the formation of a very excellent genus, in his 
whimsical ‘ Conchyliologie Systématique,’ with the title of Cymbium, for 
the reception of that portion of the Linnzan Volutes which were distin- 
guished in the ‘ Systema Nature’ as ‘‘ Volute ventricose.” Lamarck, 
however, chose not to adopt the suggestion of his fanciful contemporary, 
for he still regarded them as an important division only of the genus Voluta, 
* The above species are selected (as the synonyms show) with the view of correcting the 
errors which have been added to the nomenclature of this genus by the author of the ‘ Icono- 
graphie des Coquilles vivantes.’ 
+ This very beautiful and rare shell, collected by H. Cuming, Esq., at one of the Philippine 
Islands, is the specimen described by Broderip as var. (3. in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoolo- 
gical Society for 1842.’ 
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