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Barbados (Rawson); Liberia (Osborne); Porto Rico (Gund- 
lach). 
Shell oval, with prevalent red tracery over a flesh-colored ground, 
smaller than the variety thiarella Lamarck, and narrower than the 
typical musica; nucleus orange-yellow; with eight to eleven low 
ribs, feebly nodose at the shoulder; middle of the whorl smooth, 
but with spiral cords or flat ridges in front of the suture and near 
the canal; aperture orange-pink with brown spots on the outer lip 
and nine to eleven plaits on the pillar lip. 
Maro. Nat. Mus, 2037, 54,510, 54,520,, 116,050; 123,452;..and 
129,246. 
An unfigured, transversely wrinkled specimen was named variety 
rugifera by Lamarck. It was perhaps pathological. 
Voluta musica levigata LAMARCK. 
Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., xvi, p. 67, 1811; Encyl. Méth., pl. 379, fig. 
2a-b, 1780; Sowerby, Thes. Conchyl., p. 219, pl. xix, fig. 36, 1847. 
La Guayra, Venezuela (Bartleman), common; “ West Indies” 
(B. H. Wright). 
Shell oval, with seven to nine low, hardly nodulous, ribs; nucleus 
brown; yellowish with crowded dark zigzag blotches, the parallel 
brown lines tending to become obsolete; spiral sculpture faint or 
absent in front of the suture and normal near the canal; aperture 
yellowish pink ; outer lip with brown spots which sometimes project 
as nodules, the pillar lip with eight to thirteen plaits. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 75,268, 122,218. 
This, from the intensity of its dark blotches, is a very well marked 
and easily recognized form. 
V oluta musica damula DALL, nov. 
SowerBy, Thes. Conchyl., pl. xtrx, fig. 42, 1847; Curagao (Rawson). 
Shell small, oval, with eight or nine low ribs, slightly nodulous at 
the shoulder; nucleus pale brown; ground color whitish, with the 
usual tracery in fawn-color and pale brown, with vertical brown 
fringe-like lines and distinct spiral sculpture in front of the suture 
and four or five flattish ridges on the canal; aperture livid pink, or 
sometimes violaceous, with brown spots on the outer lip and nine 
or ten plaits on the pillar lip; a specimen of four whorls, beside the 
nucleus, measures 42 mm. long and 21 mm. wide. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 54,521 and 29,249. 
This is easily distinguished by its pale coloration and small size. 
