VOLUTID.K. 



VOLUTION. 



pale yellow or flesh-colour ornamented with brown spotted bauds, and 

 bay rein like markings ; pillar 5-plaited. 



It it found in New Zealand, in the Bay of Island*. 



F. (Mtlo, Broderip) ^Slkiopicta ha* the shell obovate, ventricoee, of 

 an orange-cinnamon colour, the spire coronetted with thick-set short- 

 vaulted spines; pillar 4-plaited. 



This shell is a native of the African Ocean and the East Indian seas. 



Animal of roluta (Uilo) Athiopina. (' Uranle.') 



Shell of tfth. Back and front view. 



t". raperlUio bag the shell turblnated, armed with strong distant 

 acute tubercles, white, yellowish, or reddlli, painted with angular!; 

 fiexuous spots; spire muricated, the apex with small tubercles; lip 

 with a mnua above ; pillar 4-plaited. 



It is found in the Indian Seas, Amboyna, Moluccas, Ac. 



The species of Fo//a have been found at depths ranging from 7 to 

 14 fathoms. The species are very numerous ami very beautiful. 



Valuta rrtptrtilio. (' Atrolubc.') 



Mili-a. Mitre Shells, have the shell fusiform, thick ; spire elevated, 

 acute ; aperture email, notched in front ; columella obliquely plaited ; 

 operculum very small. 



The animal has a very long proboscis; it emits a purple liquid, 

 having a nauseous odour, when irritated. The eyes are placed on the 

 tentacles, or at their base. Throe hundred and fifty recent species 

 and ninety fossil have been described. 



if. epitcopalu. Bishop's Mitre Shell. The animal has a narrow foot, 

 compressed and channelled at its root, nearly square and slightly 

 auriculated in front with a marginal furrow, and pointed behind. The 

 bead ia very small, rounded, with two tentacles, which are scarcely 

 a line and a half in length ; the eyes sessile at their base. An enor- 

 mous proboscis, which is sometimes double the length of the shell. 



The respiratory siphon does not project beyond the canal ; it is 

 marked with black at the point : the rest of the animal ia yellowish. 

 The proboscis is white. 



Uilra tpitcopalii, wen from below, ith iti long probOKln. (' Ailrolabc.') 



Shell of Ultra rpitfafiilii, showing the plaitt on the pillar. 



