334 EEV. E. "B00& WATSON ON THE 



slightly turned round so as to form a kind of tooth or projecting 

 corner, below wliicK the whole edge is smaller. H. 6-6. B. 3'15. 

 Penultimate whorl, height 1-3. Mouth, height 4-1, breadth 2. 



Bowdich's figure (' Conchology,' pt. 1. p. 68, pi. xviii. f . 2) of Vo- 

 luta {GymUum) (stliiopica,lAmi., is the best representation I know 

 of the animal of Voluta, and might almost be taken to represent 

 the * Challenger ' species. It is copied by Gray in Moll. Anim. i. 

 xxvii. 4. 0£ all the moUusks got by the Expedition, this is cer- 

 tainly the most valuable. It is large ; the shell is singularly 

 beautiful in form and colour ; it comes from a great depth and an 

 unknown sea ; and its generic features are very peculiar. It is 

 unfortunate that it is somewhat broken. In the act of its cap- 

 ture, or in the extraction of the animal, the shell must have been 

 slightly crushed, and the fragments lost. To me it came most 

 carefully packed in cotton-wadding ; but one or two small pieces 

 of shell were found loose in the box, and these I could replace. 

 Under my care, however, in spite of the most extreme solicitude, 

 it met with sore disaster, probably in landing from the continent, 

 when the sailors handle luggage more roughly than even at Saez 

 in days of old. The breaking was so bad that the shell looked 

 like a wreck ; the bits, however, were got into their places and 

 fixed with cement, and some professional restorer may finish the 

 work more delicately than I could do it. In any case this unique 

 treasure is not lost. 



VoLUTOMiTEA, Gray. 



VOLTJTOMITEA FEAGILLIMA, n. Sp. 



St. 149 d. Jan. 20, 1874. Lat. 49° 28' S., long. 70° 13 E. Eoyal 

 Sound, Kerguelen, 28 fms. Mud. 



Shell. — Ovate-ventricose, thin, smooth, with a short spire, a long 

 base, a large oblong mouth, and 4 teeth on the pillar. Sculjyture. 

 Longitudinals — there are many fine hair-like lines of growth. 

 Spirals — there are very many broadish, but obsolete, rounded 

 threads ; the front of the snout is obliquely crossed by about 15 

 stronger and more regular threads. Colour subpellucid white 

 under a very thin yellowish smooth epidermis. Sj^ire short and 

 broad. Apex bluntly mamillate, not elevated, but rising a little 

 on one side. Whorls nearly 6, convex, rounded above, sloping 

 below. Suftore a little impressed and strongly marked. Iloicth 

 oblong, somewhat oblique, rather large, pointed above, prolonged 

 into a lougish, open, truncated, but not emarginated canal. Outer 



