CYMBIUM. 
Prats XVII. 
Species 9. (Mus. Brit.) Voluta Indica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3467. 
Melo Indica, Broderip. 
Voluta Melo, Ann. du Mus. 
Cymbium Melo, Menke. 
Hai. Kastern seas. 
Cyrmpium inpicum. Cymb. testa subgloboso-ventricosa, 
aurantio-fulvd, castaneo varie fasciatim nebulaté et 
maculata, spird fere vel omnino tmmersd, anfractibus 
superne declivi-coarctatis, levibus, haud squamatis ; 
apertura superné sinuatd, columella triplicata. The principal characteristic of this well-known species 
Tur Inpran Cympsum. Shell somewhat globosely ven- | is that it is neither coronated nor channelled; the upper 
tricose, orange-fulvous, variously clouded and blotched | portion of the whorls is closely slopingly contracted, so as 
in a banded manner with chestnut, spire almost or | almost or altogether to cover the spire. It has little vari- 
entirely immersed, whorls slopingly contracted round | ation either of colour or form, and is rarely found of such 
the upper part, smooth, not scaled; aperture sinuated | large size as the fine specimen in the British Museum, re- 
at the upper part, columella three-plaited. | presented in the accompanying Plate. 
February, 1861. 
