Volutu noniiiii, V. piperita, cOc. 97 



Ilab. Endeavour Straits aiul Port Essinfrton, North 

 Australia; Warrior Uoef and Darnlcy Island {Petterd). 



In tlic I'roc. Zool. Soc. 18")"), j). (J3, and List of Vulutidfe 

 l>rit. Mus. 1855, p. 20, Gray quotes this species as bciu^ 

 figured in Stokes's Voy. in Australia, pi. iii. fig. 1. This 

 certainly is a mistake, which evidently arose from the fact 

 that the surname of the lady after whom the shell was 

 named was Stokes, and thi.-< unfortunately was accidentally 

 quoted itistead of Jukes. Curiously enough there is a work 

 by J. L. Stokes, ' Discoveries in Australia &c.,' published in 

 1846, the year in which this species was described. 



Valuta t'rvina;, sp. n. (Plate V.) 

 J'uluta ywrrisii, var. irvina, Cox, MSS. in litt. 



Shell oblong, subpiriform, rather ventricose, liglit salmon- 

 red, with numerous white flecks forming three zones upon 

 the body- whorl — one at the shoulder or upper end, one central, 

 and the third anterior. There are two intermediate zones 

 without white flocks, but marked with numerous longitudinal, 

 irregular, wavy, dark brown lines. The upper zone is the 

 broader, and falls rather above tlie middle of the whorl. 

 Whorls 6, the first three forming a large nip})le-like apex, 

 noduled above ; the penultimate oblique and excavated above, 

 then angled and coronated with about fourteen small short 

 liollow spines ; the body-whorl is also excavated above and 

 has a similar coronation of about twenty spines; it is 

 rounded at the shoulder below the spines ; the concavity of 

 these two whorls exhibits numerous radiating dark brown 

 streaks of varying lengths ; the anterior end and the fasciole 

 of the body-whorl are marked with fine wavy red lines ; 

 aperture large, whitish within, becoming somewhat orange at 

 the lip ; the band of dark lines forms an obscure zone within 

 at the middle ; labrum not thickened, rather deeply sinuated 

 at the suture ; columellar folds four in number, white, promi- 

 nent; extreme end of columella orange-red. 



Length 110, diam. GO mm. ; aperture with the labrum 

 90 long, diam. iJO mm. 



Hah. " From one of the many reefs off Rat Nest Island, 

 ofl' Freemantle in Western Australia" {Dr. J. C. Cox in litt.). 



This remarkable shell was sent to Mr. J. U. Ponsonby by 

 Dr. Cox, with the request that it might be described and 

 placed in the Britisli Museum. Mr. Ponsonby kindly handed 

 on the specimen to me Cor examination and description. 



Its nearest ally is V. uivosa, from which it dift'ors in several 

 characters. It is larger, the spire shorter, and the ujipcr 



