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noso, anfractibus senis, 2-3 ultimis postice subangulatis, angulo 

 obtuso, plus minusve tuberculato ; tuberculis plerumque parvis, non- 

 nunquam validioribus : apertura. magna, oblongo-ovata, columella 

 croeea, quadriplicata. 



Shell oblong-ovate, thickish, smooth, greyish flesh colour, sprin- 

 kled with small white specks, with 3 transverse bands, consisting of 

 longitudinal fuscous lines ; spire subcorneal, obtuse, with a papillary 

 granose apex ; volutions 6, the 2 or 3 last posteriorly subangular, 

 the angle being obtuse, and more or less tuberculated, the tubercles 

 generally small, sometimes very distinct and pointed ; aperture large, 

 oblong-ovate ; columella saffron-colour, with four folds. 



Tliis species is never entirely free from tubercles, nor is it ever 

 spinose. From Garden Island, Australia. 



21. Yoluta Nokiusii (pi. li. f. 65.), nobis. 



Testa ovata, suboblonga, ventricosa, coronata, cinereo-fulva, ma- 

 culis parvis niveis, aliisque fuscis adspersa, fasciisque duabus trans- 

 versis fuscis, interruptis, hie illic lineis interruptis longitudinalibus 

 notatis : spira brevi, apice papillaris granoso, anfractibus senis, ulti- 

 mis duobus spinis brevibus, acutis, coronatis ; apertura magna, ob- 

 longa, intus fusca ; columella quadriplicata, plicis duabus anticis 

 validioribus. 



Shell ovate, rather oblong, ventricose, coronated, greyish brown, 

 sprinkled with small snow-white and brown specks, with two trans- 

 verse brown interrupted bands, here and there marked with inter- 

 rupted longitudinal lines ; spire short with a papillary granose apex ; 

 volutions six, the last two crowned with short sharp spines ; aper- 

 ture large, oblong, brown within ; columella with four folds, of 

 which the two anterior are prominent. 



Pound on the reefs at low water on Dupuch's Island by J. C. 

 Dring, Esq., R. N. In Mr. Cuming's collection ; Wagner has figured 

 this species for V. uivosa. 



22. Voltjta Yespertilio (pi. xlvii. f. 15-23, pi. li. f. 67.). 



Testa turbinata vel ovato-oblonga, crassa, coronata, varie colorata, 

 plerumque pallida, vel carneola, maculis, strigisque angularibus fus- 

 cis, fulvis vel rufis ornata ; spira brevi, obtusa ; apice papillari, quasi 

 truncal o, granoso; anfractibus senis, 2 ad 3 ultimis spinis crassis 

 vel tuberculis plerumque coronatis, nonnunquam fere muticis ; aper- 

 tura oblonga, postice subsinuata, acuminata, labii externi margine 

 postice subangulari, pone imgidum acuto, antice rotundato, crasso : 

 plicis cohunellse quatuor validis. 



Shell turbinated or oblong-ovate, thick, coronated, variously co- 



