CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXXIV. 



VOLUTA JAPONICA 

 JAPANESE CROWN MELON SHELL 



Univalve. 



generic character. 



Shell spiral : aperture without a beak and somewhat effuse % 

 pillar twisted or plaited, and generally without lips or perforation* 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell ventricose, emarginate, whitish yellow: spire crowned 

 with arched spines, whorls somewhat distant : pillar lip four plaited. 



VoLUTA Japonic A: testa ventricose emarginata albido-flavescente 

 spira coronata spinis fornicatis, anfractibus sub- 

 distantibus : columella quadruplicata. 



VoLUTA tEthiopica, Lamarck animaux sans vertebres. T. 7. 



p. 331. 6. End. Method, n, 387./. L 



