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EXOTIC CONCHOLOGY. 



Shell angularly ovate, marbled with white and brownish red, covered with a 

 thin brown epidermis, which is coated for about one-third of the shell with an 

 enamel-like glaze, which takes its commencement near the pillar. The spire is 

 deeply carinated and channelled, exposing the subglandiform apex, and forming, 

 with the subreflected sharp upper border of the body- whorl, a wide spiral excava- 

 tion. The upper edge of the outer lip recedes from the spire. The pillar, which 

 is very much curved, has three plaits, and is bordered on the basal half with a rich 

 chesnut longitudinal band. Length five inches. Inhabits the African ocean. 



V. OLLA. THE MELON. 



Plate XXVI. 

 Testa ovata, ventricosa, pallid^ luteo-fulva ; spira brevi, canaliculata, apice subconico 



exserto : columella bipUcata 



V. Olla, Gmel. 3466. no. 115. Lam. Ann. du Mus. pi. 60. no. 9. and Anx. sans V. 7. 

 p. 353.no. 10. Dilwyn, pi. 578. no. 183. Gualt. 29. a. Mart. 3. tab. 72. fig. 

 772, 3. Lister, 794. fig. 1. Ene. Blet. 385. fig. 2. Wood's Cat. Volute, 

 no. 180. Brod. Cymba, fig. 1. Fav. 28. c. 2. Keiner, Volutae, pi. 14. 

 Crouch's Lamarc, 19. fig. 9. 



This species which though common is rarely met with in perfection, is ovate- 

 ventricose, pale fulvous, covered with a thin pale brown epidermis, which is coated 

 with an enamel-like glaze, from near the pillar to about two-thirds of the shell. 

 The subconical apex is exposed, as well as the spire, which last, together with the 

 upper part of the body-whorl, is rounded and deeply channelled. Size four inches. 

 Habitat : the Mediteranean. 



V. RUBIGINOSA. BURNT-MOUTHED MELON. 



Plate XXVin. 



Testa elongata, subcylindrica, pallida ; anfractQs basalis limbo, apieem supereminente ; 



columella triplicata, fauce rubiginosa. In setate provectis testa tegmine vitreo pe- 



nitus adoperta ; in junioribus apex subconicus, exsertus. 

 Brod. Mon. Cymba, fig. 7- Wood's Cat. Sup. Voluta, fig. 23. 



Shell elongated, irregularly cylindrical, pale, (except on and near the pillar 

 and in the aperture, where it is of a rich rusty brown,) covered with a pale brown 

 epidermis, which is entirely coated in old individuals with a brown enamel-like 

 glaze. The apex of the spire is almost obliterated, and the border of the spire 



