12 EXOTIC CONCHOLOGT. 



V. TESSELLATA. THE NAVAL CROWN. 



Plate XII. 



Testa ventricosissima, pallid^ fulvo-rufescente nonnunquam seriebus 2 macularum fus- 



carum ornata : spira brevissima, mammillari, spinis brevibus versus axem penitus 



inflexis, coronata : columella 4-plieata. 

 Valuta Nautica, Lam. Anx. sans V. vol. 7- p. 329, no. 1. 

 Toluta Tessellata, Lam. Anx. sans V. vol. 7. p- 330. no. 5. 

 Valuta Ethiopica, var. A. DUwyn, p. 574. no. 178. Mart. 3. tab. 74. fig. 881. & tab. 75. 



fig. 685. Sefaa, 3. tab. 64. fig. 2. Enc. Met. 387. fig. 2. Lister, 797. Kiener, 



Volutae, pL 2, 3. 



Shell roundish-oval, very ventricose, almost as broad as it is high, pale fulvous 

 or yellow, with sometimes two rows of brown spots. Spire extremely short and 

 mammillary, the first whorls smooth, the last and preceding one crowned with 

 squamiform very flattened spines, which are bent down so as to conceal the apex. 

 Aperture very ample, oval-oblong, and of a pale flesh colour : pillar with four very 

 oblique plaits. Length eight inches, breadth five inches and a half. Habitat : 

 the Atlantic ocean. 



VOLUTA ETHIOPICA. ETHIOPIAN CROWN. 



Plate XXXIX. 



Testa obovata, ventricosa castaneS.: spinis brevibus, frequentibus, depressis, rectiusculis, 



et in anfractum spirse primum continuatis : columella 4, in junioribus 3 plicata. 

 V. Ethiopica, Lin. Gmel. 3465. no. 113. Lam. Anx. sans V. 7. p. 331. no. 6. Dilwyn, 



p. 574. no. 178. 

 Var. A. entirely chesnut,lAs.iev, 801.7. b. Gualt. 29.1. Mart. 3. tab. 75. fig. 784. 



Enc. Met. 387. fig. 1. Kiener, Volutae, pi. 5. Wood, pi. 21 . fig. 175. 

 Var. B. with a pale ahsolete band, Gualt. 29. h. Seba, 65. fig. 4, 11. tab. 66. fig. 9. 



Mart. 3. tab. 73. fig. 778, 9. 

 Var, C. with two brown bands. Mart. 3. tab. 74. fig. 782. 



The peculiarity of this common species, which is retained under the orio-inal 

 name of Linnseus, consists in the spines being more numerous and slender, but not 

 less crowded than in the preceding one ; like the spines of that shell, these also are 

 flattened on the upper sui'face, but instead of being greatly depressed on the spire, 

 are nearly straight and are often continued on the next and even succeeding volution. 

 Its shape is more oval, and its colouring, though never marbled or spotted, varies 

 considerably. The upper plait on the pillar in this shell, is very slender and in- 

 distinct, the spines are thick set and beautifully graduating to a very small size on 



