Rev. R. T. Lowe on JJelampuSf ^c. 



lata ; labro simplici fintus Icsviplano.J 



Long. -f-Q unc; lat. ^V* Anfr. 4. 



Hab. Australia. Mecum bene vole communicavit D'- G. B. Sowerby. 



Species incertae ; hue forsan referendEe. 



1. Voluta livida, Linn., Syst. ed. 12. p. 1187. 



" V. testa coarctatd ovato-cylindricd, spird subelevatd obtusiusculd, 

 columella quinquepllcatd. M. L. U. 591, n. 229.* 

 Gualt. test. t. 25, f. B. 

 Hab. in Africa. 

 Testa livida fasciis transversis, pallidis obsoletisy Linn., loc. cit. 



2. Auricula Myosotis, Drap. 



** A. tcstd ovato-conicd fovato-sub oblong d, Drap.^ apice acuta, tenui- 



" ter siriatd, corneo-fuscescente ; anfractibus convexis ; columella 



" triplicatd; labro margine albo, rejlexo.'" Lam. 



Auricula Myosotis, Drap., p. 56, t. 3, f. 16, 17. Lam., VL, 2, p. 

 140. Feruss., Tabl. Syst. p. 103, No. 8. Payr., Catal. p. 104. 



Voluta denticulata, Montag. " pi. 20, f. 5." Tuit., Diet. No. 2. 



Voluta ringens, Turt., Diet. No. 3. 



Hab. " sur les c6tes de la Mediterranee, sur le bois mort et pourri, 

 " dans les lieux humides. Note ; Quelques naturalistes distingues regar- 

 " dent cette espece eomme marine." Drap. 1. c. " Dans le midi de la 

 *' France, pres des cotes de la Mediterranee sur les bois morts et pourris." 

 Lam. 1. c. " Les etangs saumatres de la Mediterranee et de I'Ocean, 

 *' mais sortantde I'eau." Feruss. 1. c. " Les bords des eaux saumatres, 

 " ou les lieux reconverts par la mer dans les momens de tempete ; sous 

 " les pierres." Payraud. 1. e. 



There can be little doubt that these two last are the correct habitats of 

 the species ; and combining this with the fact of its identity with Voluta 

 denticulata of Montagu, the preponderance of evidence is decidedly 

 in favour of its belonging to the marine Httoral Pectinibranchia.* But 

 I have chosen for the present to refer it to the doubtful species ofMelam- 

 piis, because there seems reason to suspect that the shell is furnished with 



* F4russac rightly remarks, that it is at least very doubtful whether the 

 tentacula are rightly described as retractile by Draparnaud. 



