200 



18. Voluta RUTiLA (pi. xlvi. f. 5, 6.), Brod.; Zool. Journ. 

 Vol. ii. p. 30. tab. III. 



Testa ovato-oblonga, crassiuscula, lsevi, albida rufescenteque va- 

 ria, maculis subtrigonis, confiuentibus, croceo-rubris, picta; spira 

 breviuscula, sutura simplici, apice papillaris subgranulato ; anfrac- 

 tibus senis, ultimo maximo, vel inermi vel noimimquam tuberculis 

 elongatis armato, fasciisque duabus latis, interruptis, rutilis, ornato; 

 columella quadriplicate plica antica validiori. 



Sliell oblong-ovate, rather thick, smooth, varied with whitish and 

 reddish, and ornamented with subtrigonal, confluent saffron-red 

 spots ; spire rather short, suture uninterrupted ; apex papillary, 

 slightly granose ; volutions 6, the last very large, sometimes armed 

 with elongated tubercles, and ornamented with two broad, inter- 

 rupted, rusty red bands ; columella with four folds, of which the 

 anterior is the most prominent. 



First described and figured by Broderip in the Zoological Jour- 

 nal, vol. ii. and figured afterwards by Kiener under the name of 

 aulica, which belongs to a very distinct species. We have repre- 

 sented the smooth and the tuberculated varieties. 



19. Voluta magnipica (pi. liv. f. 103.), Chemn. 



Testa ovato-oblonga, medio ventricosa, tenuiuscula, pallide fulva, 

 fasciis latis tribus aurantio-castaneis, albo-fuscoque maculatis, cincta; 

 spira subconoidea, apice papillari, anfractibus primis tribus papil- 

 lam obsolete granulosam eJformantibus, creteris tribus medio ven- 

 tricosis ; ultimo maximo ; apertura oblonga, magna, postice acumi- 

 nata, medio latiori ; columella; plicis quatuor vahdis, aurantiacis. 



Shell oblong-ovate, ventricose in the middle, rather thin, pale 

 fulvous, with three broad orange-chesnut bands, marked with white 

 and fuscous spots ; spire subcorneal, with a papillary apex, formed 

 of the tlrree first volutions, and very obsoletely granulose, the re- 

 maining three volutions are ventricose, the last being extraordi- 

 narily large ; the aperture is oblong, very large, posteriorly acumi- 

 nated, wider in the middle; columella with four distinct orange 

 "coloured folds. 



Found in some Australian estuaries. Mr. S. Stutchbury obtained 

 several specimens with the animal alive in about twelve feet water 

 in Rose Bay, Port Jackson. 



20. Voluta nivosa (pi. Ii.. f. 63, 64.), Brocl 



Testa, ovato-oblonga, crassiuscida, laevi, cinereo-carneolata, macu- 

 lis parvis niveis adspersa, faciisque tribus transversis fusco-lineatis, 

 lineis longitudinalibus ; spira subconica, obtusa, apice papillari gra- 



