PLATE CLXXX. 



Voluta Scabriuscula : testa fusiformi, longitudinaliter striata, 

 transverse rugosa, anfractibus convexis: colu« 

 mella quadriplicata, perforata, labro crenulato 



Voluta Scabriuscula. Linn. Gmel. p. 3450. n. 48. 



Mitra Scabriuscula. Lamarck. An. p. 203. n. 8. 



A shell of great rarity, and which, when in a fine and perfect 

 state, is regarded as an acquisition of no mean importance in every 

 conchological cabinet. The most choice example we have ever seen 

 is that from which the drawings of the annexed plate are taken : it 

 ' was originally preserved in the museum of Sir Ashton Lever, and 

 at the sale of that collection realized a sum of between four and five 

 pounds. Small specimens of the same species do sometimes occur in 

 the Indian seas, and it is presumed that our example is from the 

 same locality. 



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