22 EXOTIC CONCHOLOGY. 



Shell ovate fusiform, smooth, yellowish white, not unfrequently clouded with 

 fulvous or violet-coloured spots ; and adorned with numerous waved chesnut longi- 

 tudinal linear markings : mouth salmon-coloured : pillar with four principal plaits, 

 and at times with one or two smaller ones. Size three inches, though some speci- 

 mens, which become paler by age, attain the larger proportions of four inches. 

 Habitat : New Holland. 



S. JUNONIA. PEACOCK'S TAIL. 



Plate XXXIII. 



Testa ovato-fusiformi, Isevi, albo-flavescente sub epidermide olivacea, maculis rubris sub- 



quadratis seriatim tessellata : spira brevi, conica, mammillari sub apice cancellata ; 



columella quadriplicata. 

 Valuta Junonia, Lam. Anx. sans V. 7- p. 3-15. no. S7 ■ Dilwyn, p. 572. no. 173. 



Chem. 11. pi. 177. fig. 1703, 4. Fav. 97. a. Kiener's Volute, 45. fig. 1. 



Wood's Cat. pi. 21. fig. 170. 



The ground colour of this most rare and beautiful shell is yellowish-white, 

 diversified by numerous rows of somewhat square-shaped spots of a reddish brown, 

 and covered, when fresh, by an olive epidermis. It is smooth and polished, in shape 

 elongated oval, with the body-whorl more than twice the length of its short conical 

 and mammillary spire, and striated transversely at its attenuated base. The pillar 

 is furnished with four plaits which are nearly equal in size, the length is four inches 

 and a half, and the habitat the Gulf of Mexico. 



S. ZEBRA. ZEBRA VOLUTA. 



Plate XLIV. 



Testa ovato-oblonga, crassa, Isevi, albida, strigis luteo-rufis, longitudinalibus, angustis, 

 crebris, radiatim picta ; spira brevi, conica, obtusa ; columella quadriplicata. 



Marginella Radiata, Lam. Anx. sans V. 7. pi. 356. no. 2. 



Voluta Zebra, Dilwyn, p. 571. no. 167. Leacb, Misc. 1. tab. 12. fig. 1. Kiener, Volutse, 

 pi. 42. fig. 2. Wood's Cat. Voluta, no. 164. 



Shell ovate oblong, thick, smooth, and polished, with a very short and obtuse 

 spire, greyish or pale reddish white, with numerous narrow and slightly undulated 

 stripes of a lighter or darker brown, running from the suture to the base. The last 

 whorl comprises two- thirds of the shell, and the outer lip is so strongly marginated, 

 that Lamarc has included it amongst the Marginellse or Date Shells, from which it 

 chiefly differs (according to Kiener) by the disposition of its plaits (which are four 



