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Shell subcorneal, turbinated, thickish, transversely grooved, 

 greenish ash-colour, with small chesnut dots, and many pale trans- 

 verse fillets sprinkled with fuscous specks; spire short, conical, 

 with a papillary apex of 2 volutions, the remaining 5 volutions with 

 pointed tubercles, and the last volution crowned with sharp tuber- 

 cles ; aperture oblong, rather oblique, sowewhat angular at both 

 ends ; outer lip thickened, spotted, thin at the posterior edge ; colu- 

 mella with from 12 to 14 variable folds, the anterior being generally 

 the larger. 



Easily distinguished from all the varieties of musica. Lamarck's 

 V. fulva is merely a worn variety of this species, and we think his 

 V. chlorosma will prove to be nothing more. We have represented 

 two varieties; f. 77, from Mr. jNorris's collection, and f. 78, from 

 Miss Saul's. 



47. Voluta pusio (pi. lv. f. 119.), Swains. 



Testa ovato-turbinata, era ssa, laevigata, fulvescente, fasciis pallidis, 

 punctisque fidvis seriatim dispositis cincta ; spira brevi, apice acuto ; 

 anfractibus 6, ultimo leviter costato, postice obtuse nodoso ; labio 

 externo subexpanso; columella subincrassata, multiplicata, plicis 

 nonnullis validis, aliis intermediis posticisque parvis. 



Shell ovate-turbinated, thick, smooth, pale fulvous, with darker 

 coloured bauds and spots arranged in rows, spire short, with an 

 acute apex ; volutions 6, the last slightly ribbed and obtusely tuber- 

 culated posteriorly ; outer lip somewhat spread ; columella rather 

 thickened, with many folds, some of which are distinct, and others, 

 winch are intermediate and posterior, are small. 



Perhaps this ought to be merely regarded as a variety of Voluta 

 polyzonalis, from which it differs principally in its proportions; 

 being wider and having a shorter spue. We are not acquainted 

 with its locality. The specimen is in the British Museum. 



48. Voluta Cumingii (pi. lv. f. 105, 106, 107.), Broderip ; 

 Zool. Proc, 1832, p. 33. 



Testa, ovato-pyramidali, crassa, albida, cgeruleo-castaneo nebulosa,, 

 suturas versus nigro-castaneo vittata, spira subelongata, apice acuto ; 

 anfractibus tuberculatis, ultimo subcostato, costis tumidis, fasciaque 

 subcentrali pallida, lata cincto ; labro tumido, subcontracto, sub- 

 reflexo, acuto, varice interno obliquo submedio ; cohunella 5 ad- 6 

 plicata, plicis tribus anticis majoribus, caeteris indistinctis. 



Shell ovate-pyramidal, thick, whitish, clouded with blueish ches- 

 nut,and banded near the suture with blackish chesnut ; spire some- 

 what elongated, with an acute apex ; volutions tuberculated, the last 



