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DALL] REVIEW OF AMERICAN VOLUTIDA. ne 5) 
VOLUTA VIRESCENS Solander 
Voluta virescens SOLANDER, Portland Cat., p. 26, No. 610, 1786; after 
Martini, Conch. Cab., m1, p. 243, pl. 97, figs. 932-3, 1777; Dall, Bull. 
Mus. Comp. Zool., xvui1, p. 146, 1899. 
Voluta polyzonalis Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., xvu, p. 68, No. 27, 1811; 
Encycl. Méth., m1, pl. 379, fig. 1a—b. 
Muriciformes cantinelosus MrEuscHEN, Mus. Gevers., p. 326, 1787. 
Voluta fulua Lamarck, Ann. du Mus., xvu, p. 68, No. 28, 1811; Encycl. 
Méth., m1, pl. 382, fig. 3a-b (bleached specimen). 
?Voluta pusio Swatnson, Zool. Ill., um, pl. 181, 1831; Sowerby, Thes. 
Conch., 1, p. 213, No. 47, pl. 55, fig. 119, 1847. 
From Mesquital, Texas, south to Nicaragua (Fluck), to Sabanilla 
and Carthagena, New Grenada (Schott), West Africa (Ward), 
Guinea coast, etc. 
This species, contrary to my former suspicions, really does occur 
in West Africa, and probably along the whole northern coast of 
South America, as well as the eastern coast of Central America, 
Mexico, and northward to the Gulf coast of Texas. It is a well 
defined species, showing little variation among the specimens I have 
seen. The young shell is strongly spirally sulcate, a character grad- 
ually lost with growth. 
Swainson’s pusio is, if a variety, as claimed by various writers, 
much wider and shorter than the typical form, though Swainson’s 
type was evidently a bleached shell. 
The V. fulva of Lamarck, from his figures, should be referred to 
this species, being probably a bleached shell. I cannot, however, 
agree with the opinion of Dillwyn who refers V. guinaica Lamarck 
to the synonymy of this species. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 3033, 6141, 149,756, 149,757, 186,296. 
VOLUTA EBRAA Linné 
Voluta ebrea Linné£, Syst. Nat., ed. x, p. 733, No. 372, 1758; ed. xII, p. 
1194; Hanley, Conch. Lin., p. 233. 
Voluta hebr@a GMELIN, Syst. Nat., vi, p. 3461, 1792; Lamarck, Ann. du 
Museum, xvil, p. 65, No. 20, 1811; Sowerby, Thes. Conchyl., 1, p. 211, 
No. 43, pl. Liv, figs. 95-6, 1847. 
Buccinum coronatum Martyn, Univ. Conch., 1, pl. 83, 1786. 
Voluta turbinata KiENeEr, Icon., Voluta, p. 19, pl. xxv, fig. 2, 1839. 
Jamaica (Martini); Pernambuco et Maceio, Brazil, common 
(Greeley); West Africa (Carpenter, Rich, McGuire, Stearns) ; 
Madagascar (Humphrey). 
This well known shell is rather common for one of this genus. 
Most of the specimens in the National Museum are African. It 
was found by Branner’s party, common along the shore near Per- 
