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V. angulata with netted waved red-brown lines. The colours and mark- 

 ings of molluscous animals never correspond with those of their shells. 



The Voluta are strictly tropical, none inhabit the European seas, and 

 not a single species has been found in any part of the Mediterranean, the 

 richest, and most highly esteemed, are from Australia, New Guinea and New 

 Zealand ; there are one or two species from Brazil, and some from Ceylon, 

 Timor, and Western Africa, but the well-known V. musica, of which the 

 V. Icevigata, carneolata, Guinaica and thiarella of Lamarck are varieties, 

 is principally found in the West Indies. 



The Volutes rarely inhabit localities where Mitres abound ; at the Philip- 

 pine Islands, for example, Mr. Cuming collected between two and three 

 hundred species of that genus, whilst scarcely a Volute presented itself. 



1. ancilla Soland. 22. 



2. angulata, Soland. 23. 



3. aiilica, Soland. 24. 



4. Beckii, Brod. 25. 



5. Brasiliana, Soland. 26. 



6. bullata, Swain. 27. 



7. chlorosina, Lam. 28. 



8. conoinna, Brod. 29. 



9. costata, Swain. 30. 



10. Cumingii, Brod. 31. 



11. Cyllemformis, Sow. 32. 



12. cyinbiola, Chemn. 33. 



13. Delessertiana, Petit. 31. 



14. dubia, Brod. 35. 



15. elongata, Swain. 36. 



16. Ferussacii, Bonov. 37. 



17. festiva, Lam. 38. 



18. fulgetrum, Sow. 39. 



19. fusiformis, Swain. 40. 



20. gracilis, Swain. 41. 



21. Guildingii, Sow. 42. 



Species. 



harpa, Barnes. 43. 



Hebrsea, Linn. 44. 



imperiahs, Lam. 45. 



Junonia, Chemn. 46. 



Lappoiiica, Linn. 47. 

 Largilliertiana, I)' Orb. 48. 



luteostoma, Chemn. 49. 

 lyraeformis (Mitra),Sw.B0. 



maculata, Swain. 51 



Magellanica, Chemn. 52 



magnifica, Chemn. 53 



mamilla, Gray. 54. 



marmorata, Swain. 55, 



megaspira, Sow. 56. 



Mitraformis, Sow. 57 



musica, Linn. 58 



nivosa, Lam. 59 



nodulosa, Lam. 60, 



Norrisii, Sow. 61. 



nucleus, Lam. 62 

 Pacifica, Soland. 



palbda, Gray. 

 papulosa, Swain. 

 piperita, Sow. 

 polyzonahs, Lam. 

 pulchra, Sow. 

 punctata, Sioain. 

 pusio, Swain. 

 reticulata, Reeve. 

 rupestris Gmel. 

 rutila, Brod. 

 scaplia, Gmel. 

 subnodosa, Leach. 

 sulcata, Lam. 

 tuberculata, Swain. 

 Turneri, Gray. 

 undulata, Lam. 

 vespertibo, Linn. 

 vexillum, Chemn. 

 volvacea, Lam. 

 zebra, Leach. 



Figures. 



Voluta angulata. Plate D. — Shell with animal, showing its rounded 

 head, short tentacles, remote eyes, auriform respiratory siphon, and 

 mantle expanded over the left side of the shell. From IfOrbignifs 

 Voyage dans VAmerique Meridionale. 



Voluta volvacea. Plate 1. Fig. 7. — Shell, showing the winding plaits. 



