WORMS. TESTACEA. 75. Voluta. 377 



Inhabits Indian 3 inches long. Shell narrow brown, with darker 

 longitudinal ltrias and elevated tranfverfe ones covered with 

 ftattifh granulations. 



Cardinalis. Shell effiarginate tranfverfely ftriate, white with rows of 

 chefnut fpots which are generally teflellate : pillar with 

 5 plaits. 



Lister^ tab. 838. Gualt, tejt. tab. 53. G. 2. 



Seba muf 3. tab, 50. fig. 51. /. 51./** 6* 7. 



Knorr Vergn. 4. tab. 28. fig. 3, 



Bom Muf Caf Find, tefi* tab* g*fg* 1 1 , 1 2„ 



Martini conch. 4. tab* Itf.ftg. I3S^» I 359» 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean ; referable* V. pertufa, but is more 

 ventricofe and obtule. 



Bpifcopalii. Shell emarginate fmooth: margins of the whorls entire; 

 lip denticulate : pillar with 4 plaits. 



Natural. Mifcell. tab. 244. Lister; tab. S^g.fig. 66.' 



Rumpf.muf tab. 29. K. Gualt.test. tab. 53, G. I. 



Bonan. recr. and Muf kirch t %.fig 120. 



Argent, eonch. tab. 9. C. Bytem. app. tab* i l*fg* 4-7* 



Seba muf 3. tab. $l*fig. 8 — 1 9. 



Knorr delic. tab. B. iii. fig. 3. Vergn. l. tab. 6. fig. 2* 



Regenv. conch. 1, ta£. 3. /Tg-. 33. 



Martini conch. 4. /«£. 147 • fig. I 360, a. 



Inhabits /«<&*. The inhabitant or fsfh is faid to be of a poifon* 

 ous nature, if eaten, and to wound thofe who touch it with a 

 kind of pointed trunk. The natives of the ifland Tanna fix 

 the fhells in handles and ufe them as hatchets. 



Shell 5 inches long, covered with a yellowifh-brown cuticle, 



under which it is white with rows of fquariih bright red fpots 



"which are rarely yellow and fometimes confluent: 2 firil 



whorls of the fpire glabrous, the reft finely ftriate tranfverfely. 



Papalis, Shell emarginate tranfverfely ftriate : margins of the whorls 

 and lip denticulate: pillar with 4 plaits. 

 Shaiv Natur. Mifcell. tab. 244, lower figure. 

 Lifer, tab. 839. y}£, 67. Rumpf. Muf tab. 29. I. 

 Bonan. recr. and Muf. kirch. ^.fg. 1 19. 

 Jrgewv. conch, tab. 9. E. Gualt. tejt. tab. 53. I. 

 Seba muf 3. tab. 51 fig. I — 5. 

 Knorr Vergn. I. tab. 6. fig. n 

 Rsgenf.. conch. I, t. \ % f. 1. 

 Martini conch. 4. /. 147. f. 1 353, 1354* 1 

 2. Lister, tab. 84O. Gualt tefi, tab. 53. I. 2« 

 Valent *%bh. tab. 5. fg. 45, 

 Seba muf 3. /. 50./. 29, 30. t. 51. f. 37* 

 Knorr Vergn , 4. tab. zt.fg. 2, 



voL.1v.-3B Martini 



