CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE XLVI. 



VOLUTA SCAPHA. 

 GREAT RETICULATED BOAT, 



OR 



NOBLE VOLUTE, 

 Univalve, 



generic character. 



Animal a Umax. Shell unilocular, spiral ; aperture without a 

 beak, and sub-effusive : pillar twisted, or plaited : generally without 

 lips or perforation. 



Ventricose, spire papillary at the tip, or terminating in an 

 obtuse rounded eminence. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shell thick, heavy, smooth, clouded with ziczac brown lines, 

 pillar four plaited, lip subulate. 

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