EXOTIC CONCIIOLOfjy. 17 



Shell ponderous, unarmed, smooth and vcntricosc ; the spire short, thick, 

 conical, maumiillary and composed of five or six whorls, of which the last is very 

 large, subcarinated above and conoidiform. The mouth is elongated oblong, toler- 

 ably large, and of a milky white but sometimes tinged with brown. Where the outer 

 lip, which is slightly reflected, prominent and angulated above, is attached to the 

 body-whorl, a sinus presents itself, under which we see a canal cori'esponding to the 

 subcarinated ridge of the exterior, which in full grown individuals is slightly dilated. 

 The pillar is rounded, almost straight, usually covered with an enamel-like glaze, 

 and furnished with four plaits. The colouring is variable, but in the majority of 

 specimens, numerous wavy angulated reddish brovra lines, crossed on the body- whorl 

 by two or three bands of large irregularly shaped spots of ferruginous brown, relieve 

 the darker or lighter fulvous which forms the ground of the shell. The apex is of 

 a pale maroon, the length three inches and a half and the habitat, the Cape of Good 

 Hope and the shores of India and Java. 



ANCILLIFOB.M TYPE. 



V. ANGULATA. ANGULATED MUSIC. 



Plate XXXIV. S > -'-'' 



Testa elongata, inermi, epidermide vitrea tecta : pallid^ fulva, lineis, irregularibus, spa- 

 diceis, longitudinaliter undata : anfractu basali superne angulato, supra piano : 

 spira brevi attenuate, leevi, apice acuto : ajsertura efifusa, aurantii colore tincta : 

 columella triplicata. 



V. Nasica, Chem. 13. tab. 217. fig. 3031, 2. Kiener's Volutae, pi. 38. Wood's Cat. sup. 

 Volutae, fig. 21. 



Fusiform oval, unarmed, covered witb a glazed epidermis, smooth and polished, 

 pale fulvous adorned witb longitudinal linear markings of a pale violet brown. The 

 spire which is composed of six or seven volutions is conical and very acute ; the 

 body- whorl, attenuated towards the base, strongly angulated (except when immature) 

 and flattened above. The aperture is effuse, of an orange yellow and elongated oval, 

 and the outer lip acute and separated from the pillar by a wide and deep sinus, 

 whose lower part is furnished with three plaits. Length six inches, breadth two 

 inches and a balf. The Southern Pacific ocean.* 



* An absurd notion is entertained by the French naturalists respecting the locaUty of this shell ; 

 several of them assigning it to the more northerly part of the Atlantic ocean. 



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