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on the tentacles, or near their base. Lingual ribbon linear; 
rachis, toothed ; pleurce, unarmed. 
Fig. 89.# 
VoLtutTa. L. YVolute. 
Type, VY. musica, Pl. VII., Fig. 9. 
Synonyms, Cymbiola, Harpula, Sw. Volutella, D’Orbigny. 
Scapha, &c., Gray. 
Shell yentricose, thick; spire short, apex mammillated; 
aperture large, deeply notched in front; colu- 
mella with several plaits. V. musica and a few 
others have a small operculum. 
Animal eyes on lobes at the base of the ten- 
tacles ; siphon with a lobe on each side, at its 
base; lingual teeth 3-cusped (Fig. 90). 
V. vespertilio and hebreea fill the nuclei of 
their spires with solid shell. V. brasiliana 
forms nidamental capsules 3 inches long. 
(D’Orbigny.) In V. angulata the mantle is 
produced into a lobe on the left side, and over- 
Fig. 90. Voluta laps the shell. 
(Wilton). Distribution, 70 species. "West Indies, Cape 
Horn, West Africa, Australia, Java, Chili. 
Fossil, 80 species. Chalk—. India, Britain, France, &c. 
Sub-genera, Volutilithes, Sw. Spire pointed, many-whorled, 
columella plaits indistinct. V. spinosus, Pl. VII., Fig. 10. 
Living, 1 species (V. abyssicolu), dredged at 132 fathoms; off 
the Cape. (Adams.) 
fossil, Eocene. Britain, Paris. 
Scaphella, Sw. Fusiform, smooth. 
Example, VY. magellanica. 
* Fig. 89, V. undulata, Lam. } Australia. (From Quoy and Gaimard.) 
