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4. Votura (ScapHa) PIPERITA, Sowerby. 
This lovely species is extremely rare: I do not think there are 
half a dozen specimens in Europe. Its habitat (till lately unknown) 
is Woodlark Island, whence the two fine examples in my own col- 
lection were obtained by H.M.S. ‘Iris.’ 
5. Voiura (ScapHa) puLcHRA, Sowerby. 
An exquisitely beautiful Volute, of which a specimen in a live state 
was found at Heron Island, on the north coast of Australia, by my 
friend Mr. J. Macgillivray, and is now in the National Collection. 
6. Votuta (Scapa) DESHAYESII, Reeve. 
This gorgeously blood-spotted Volute has only been known to 
collectors during the last few years. Previously to its being de- 
scribed by Mr. Reeve in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society 
of London,’ I had received several specimens from the tortoiseshell 
and béche-de-mer traders, who visit the islands to the north-east of 
Sydney. It appears to come from the north coast of New Cale- 
donia, and (although at one time I saw some hundreds lying on the 
deck of a small schooner in Sydney, and was obligingly offered as 
many as I liked to take by the captain) is still a species much 
valued by collectors in Europe. 
7. Votutra (ScarHa) NorRISII, Sowerby. 
King George’s Sound, Western Australia. Rare. This species 
differs from the common /, nivosa in being shorter and broader, with 
a very dark aperture, and in having the whorls coronated at the 
angle. 
8. Votuta (ScapHa) nivosa, Lam. 
Peculiar to the west coast of Australia, where it ranges abundantly 
from Swan River to Sharks’ Bay. At the latter place a small yel- 
lowish variety occurs, in which the snow-flake markings are nearly 
obsolete. 
9, VotutTa (ScAPHA) MARIA-EMMA, Gray. 
This species is most probably from the north-west coast of Au- 
stralia. At present I believe it is unique in the Cumingian collection. 
10. Votuta (ScapHa) MAMILLA, Gray. 
Several specimens of this large and remarkably papillose shell have 
lately been obtained in Tasmania. A fragment, evidently belonging 
to this species, was found on the beach at Kangaroo Island, in South 
Australia, amongst a heap of débris and broken shells. 
11. Votura (Scarua) pactrica, Solander. 
There are two or three very marked varieties of this species, which 
is pretty generally distributed along the shores of the north island of 
New Zealand. About Hokianga, on the west coast, 1 have met with 
