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ultimo magno, ovali; apertura, oblonga, postice acuminata, labii 

 externi margine incrassato ; interui crasso, extenso ; columella ante 

 mediam subgibba, 3- ad 5- plicata. 



Shell oblong-oval, thick, smooth, reticulated with very fine ful- 

 vous lines, and with interrupted transverse chesnut yellow bands, 

 spire short, rather acuminated, with a thick papillary apex of two 

 volutions, the three remaining volutions coloured, the last large 

 and oval; aperture oblong, posteriorly acuminated, outer lip with 

 the margin thickened, inner lip tliick, spread ; columella anteriorly 

 gibbous, with from 3 to 5 folds. 



From the Fijee Islands : a remarkable species of extreme rarity. 



37. Voltjta fusiformis (pi. liv. f. 100.), Swains., in Appen- 

 dix to Bligh Catalogue. 



Testa oblongo-fusiformi, crassiuscida, kevi, fulva vel carneo-fulva, 

 maeulis lineisque angularibus castaueis oxnataj spira acuminata, 

 subelongata; apice papillari, papilla anfractuum duorum parva; 

 anfractibus cseteris quinque subgibbis, ultimo paululum ventricoso, 

 antice subcoarctato ; apertura magna, postice subaeuminata, me- 

 diant; lata ; labio columellari tenuiuscula, expansa, collumella antice 

 acuta, plicis 3 ad 4 parvis, perobliquis, antica majori. 



Shell oblong, fusiform, thickish, smooth, fulvous or somewdiat 

 flesh-coloured, with chesnut spots and angular lines ; - spire acumi- 

 nated, rather elongated, with a small papillary apex of two volu- 

 tions, the five remaining volutions rather gibbous, the last slightly 

 ventricose, and contracted anteriorly; aperture large, posteriorly 

 subacuminatc, broad in the middle, columellar hp rather thin, 

 spread; columella anteriorly sharp, with from three to four small 

 very oblique folds, the anterior of which is the largest. 



Probably from the Pacific Ocean ; first described by Swainson 

 in the Phgh Catalogue. 



38. "Voltjta megaspira (pi. xlviii. f. 31, 32.), nobis. 



Testa fusiformi, turrita, tenuiuscula, lsevi, rufescente-carneolata, 

 strigis maculisque castaneis, notata; spira; anfractibus senis, sub- 

 elongatis, medio ventricosiusculis, primis duobus apicem papillarem 

 efformantibus, 3tio, 4to, 5to et 6to obtuse longitudinaliter costatis, 

 ultimo magno, oblongo, antice attenuate, apertura oblonga, labio 

 externo subreflexo ; columella quinqueplicata, plicis posticis obtusis 

 parvis. 



Shell fusiform, turreted, rather thin, smooth, of a reddish flesh 

 colour, marked with chesnut streaks and blotches ; volutions of the 

 spire six, rather elongated, rather ventricose in the middle, the two 



