APPENDIX. 



No. X. 

 DESCRIPTION 



OF SOME 



NEW SPECIES OF MARINE SHELLS. 



BY J. E. GRAY, ESQ. F.R.S. F.Z.S. 



A considerable number of Shells were collected daring 

 the expedition ; Mr. Jukes and the Earl of Derby sent 

 many to the British Museum, and the others were sent 

 by Mr. Jukes to Mr. Cuming ; from these the following 

 new and interesting species have been selected ; the col- 

 lection contains several others, but the examination and 

 description of them would require more time than I can 

 at this moment bestow on the subject. 



Voluta Sophia. 

 Marine shells, Plate \,f. 1. 2. 

 Voluta Sophia, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. H. 1847. 



Shell ovate, smooth, pale brown, with four series of 

 squarish reddish brown spots, and brown lined near the 

 suture in front of the pillar. 



Spire conical, convex very short, covered with a thin 

 callous coat, apex blunt, pale whitish crenulated. 



Whorls very rapidly enlarging, with a spiral series of 

 posterior, conical, acute, arched spines, last whorl ven- 

 tricose. 



Mouth ovate, three times as long as broad, the pillar 

 with four oblique equidistant plaits, the two front rather 



2 a 2 



