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SPECIFIC 
Specimen white, with very pale reddish brown 
angular streaks and two obsolete bands. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean. 
The varieties of this species are so numerous, 
and many of them so nearly allied to Ispidula and 
Utriculus, that it is scarcely possible to distinguish 
them. The characters of the three species are ill 
defined, and applied indiscriminately to each. It 
were perhaps better to confine the shells with a 
flattened spire to Oliva, those with a very long one 
to Utriculus, and the intermediate degrees to Ispi~ 
dula. The annexed specimen would then be a 
variety of Ispidula. 
Fig. 3. V. Persicula. 
Shell smooth ; spire retuse, umbilicate ; columella 
with seven plaits ; margin of the outer lip crenate. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 803. Fig. 9. 
Specimen white, with chesnut transverse lines. 
Inhabits the African Sea and Senegal. 
Fig. 4. V. Papalis. 
Shell emarginate, transversely striate ; margin 
of the whorls and outer lip denticulate ; columella 
with four plaits. 
