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Genus— CYMBIOLA. 



Spire more produced, but not more than half as long as the aperture ; the terminal whorls 

 regular and sculptured ; plaits on the pillar, four. 



C. NIVOSA. SNOW-SPOTTED VOLUTE. 



Plate V. 



Testa ovata, aut mutica aut brevibus et acutis tubercuUs armata ; hvidfe helvina, maculis 

 uiveis aspersa ; fasciis duabus fusco-lineatis, lineolls interruptis, longitudinalibus, 

 serieque tertia linearum continuarum a suturis radiantium : columella quadri- 

 plicate. 



Valuta NvMsa, Lam. Anx. sans V. 7- p. 337. no. 19. Ann. du Mus. 5. p. 58. tab. 13. 

 fig. 2. A. B. et 17. p 64. no. 18. et 5. pi. 12. fig. 3. Wood's Cat. Volutee, 

 no. 177. (not good). DUwyn, p. 573. no. 174. Chemnitz, 13. tab. 216. 

 fig. 3025, 6. Shaw, Nat. Misc. 21. tab. 912. Kiener's Volutae, pi. 34. Blain 

 Mai. pi. 29. fig. 1. 



Shell ovate, either nearly devoid of tubercles or crowned with short spinous 

 tuberculations and angulated : livid flesh-colour, speckled with snowy spots, and 

 adorned by two bands of interrupted longitudinal brown lines, and a series of un- 

 broken ones radiating from the sutures; mouth of a deep yellowish buff colour; pillar 

 with four plaits. Length two inches and three-quarters. Habitat : New Holland. 



Lamarc appears the first writer who has described this once rare and elegant 

 shell, whose general form approaches very near to the Bat Volute, particularly in 

 the tuberculated termination, and in being either nearly smooth, or armed with 

 short angular and obtuse spines. The mouth however is more effuse, and the pecu- 

 liarity of colouring is constant. 



C. PACIFICA. MUSIC SHELL OF THE PACIFIC. 



Plates XIV. and XLTII. 

 Testa ovato-fusiformi, anfractibus anterius tuberculatis vel nodosis ; pallide fulva vel 



carnea ; venulis spadiceis, angulatis, fasciisque tribus fusco-maculatis ornata : 



columelli quinqueplicata. 

 r.Paeifica, Chemnitz, 11. tab, 1/8. fig. 1713,4. Lam. Ann. du Mus. 70. no. 33. 

 V. Arabica, Gmelin, 3461. no. 144. Martyn, 2. pi. 52. Kiener, Volutae, pi. 37- 



Wood's Cat. Voluta, no. 153. Lam. Anx. sans V. 7. Voluta, no. 35. p. 544. 



Dilwyn, p. 565. Voluta, no. 156. 



Shell ovately fusiform, volutions nodulous or tuberculated above ; pale fulvous 

 or flesh-coloured, with deep chesnut angular veins, and three bands of irregular 



