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in number) upon (he columella. New South Wales is the quarter from whence M-e 

 receive it ; it averages in length an inch and a half. 



S. MACULATA. THE SPOTTED SCAPHELLA. 



Plate XXXVIII. 



Testa oblonga, Isevi, nitida, oliviformi : luteo-fulva, ultimo anfractu tribus fasciis macu- 

 larum fusco-pui-purasccntium, ornato : apertura recta, elongata, pallida fusces- 

 cente : spira brevi, couica : columella quadripUcata, baud gibba. 



Variety V. Pallida 1 Kiener's Volutse, pi. 30. Grif. Cuv. Mollusca, pi. 30. 



Shell small, oblong, subcylindrical, attenuated at its extremities, smooth, and 

 polished ; of a yellowish grey or pale fulvous passing into yellow, with the body- 

 whorl adorned with three bands of purplish brown spots of far gi-eater length than 

 breadth, arranged one below the suture, the second half-way down and the third 

 close to the base. The mouth which is of a paleish brown is straight and elongated, 

 the pillar furnished with four plaits and never gibbous, whilst the spire is short and 

 conical, and composed of six or seven indistinctly separated volutions. The length 

 of this rare Australian Shell is two inches and a quarter. 



S. ELONGATA. ELONGATED MUSIC. 



Plates XX. and XXI. 



Testa oblonga pallide fulva, lineis fuscis, undatis, longitudinaliter picta ; spira mediocre, 

 attenuata, tantum uon Isevi, anfractibus superne depressis ; columella medio leviter 

 crassescente, sexplicata . 



Voluta Fimis, Quoy's Astrolabe, pi. 44, fig. 7, 8. Kiener's Volutae, pi. 39. & 45. fig. 2. 



A single shell of this elegantly formed and unknown species, was brought by a 

 South Sea trader from the Bay of Islands. Its characters are strikingly dissimilar 

 from all the described species, though in general form it approaches Voluta Mag- 

 nifica, and in markings Pacifica. With the exception of a few faintly marked and 

 nearly obsolete plaits on the under side of the hody- whorl, and the following volution 

 the shell is quite smooth. The shape is oblong, with its spire attenuated and of a 

 moderate size, the colour pale fulvous, with longitudinal brown wa^y or angulated 

 markings, and the outer lip is thickened and reflected. The pillar is nearly straight, 

 thickened in the middle, provided with four plaits, and accompanied in old indivi- 

 duals by a callosity which expands towards the base of the shell, and projects con- 

 siderably. The suture is compressed on the succeeding volution, and slightly 

 wrinkled. Though not very perfect our specimen is nearly unique, and the most 



