EXOTIC CONCHOLOOY. SJl 



with four plaits. Habitat, the Pacific. Length two inches. Kiener considers it a 

 variety of Magcllanica. 



Genus— HARPULA. 



Spire developed as in the last, but the tip is generally more slender, and the plaits are 

 numerous. 



H. HARPA. THE HARP VOLUTE. 



Plate XLI. 



Testa ovato-oblonga, basi transversim sulcata, albo-luteoKi, lineis et maculis iiiterruptis 

 aurantiacis transversim fasciata ; anfractibus subplanis angustis ; costis longitu- 

 dinalibus, distantibus, superne mucronatis ; columella plicis tribus majoribus, 

 caeteris minimis distincta. 



Valuta Mitrceformis, Lam. Anx. sans V. 7 ■ p. 347- no. 43. 



Vohtta Anna, Lesson, 111. de Zool. pi. 44. Kiener's Volutae, p. 34. pi. 40. fig. 1. 



Shell oval, with the spire tolerably long, pointed and terminated at the summit 

 by a small smooth and mammillary ape.x. The volutions which are in number seven, 

 and but slightly rounded, abruptly terminate and form an angle with the suture, 

 and are traversed longitudinally by ten or twelve mucronated ribs. The outer lip 

 is smooth and simple and the body-whorl but slightlj- longer than the spire, and 

 attenuated and furrowed at the base, and the pillar is arcuated and furnished with 

 three distinct plaits, above which are numerous grooves, but so indistinct that in 

 some specimens they are almost obsolete. The colour of this rare and beautiful 

 shell is whiteish, with the ribs elegantly marked, so as to form interrupted zones of 

 horizontal lines and square spots of orange, pink, or fulvous. It comes to us from 

 Japan, and is in length two inches. 



Genus— SCAPHELLA. 



Shell smooth, almost polished; outer lip thickened internally : suture enamelled ; lower 

 plaits the smallest : apex of the spire various. 



S. UNDULATA. WAVE-MARKED VOLUTE. 



Plate XXVn. 

 Testa ovato-fusiformi, laevigata, albido-flavescente, maculis fulvis aut violaceis nonnum- 



quam nebulata : lineis spadiceis, longitudinalibus, crebris, undatim flexuosis : 



columellse pUcis prsecipuis quaternis, interdum duabus minoribus adjunctis. 

 Valuta Undulata, Ann. du Mus. 5. p. 157. pi. 12. fig. 1. et 17. p. 71. no.36. Lam. Anx. 



sans V. r. p. 345. no. 38. Chemnitz, 13. tab. 216. fig. 3027, 8. Shaw'sNat. 



Misc. 17. tab. 702. Crouch's Lamarc, 19. fig. 22. Wood's Cat. Voluta, no. 166. 



Kiener, Volutse, pi. 44. fig. 1. Dilwyn, Voluta, no, 169. p. 571. 



