VoLVAiiiA. MOLLUSCA. SOLENOSTOMATA. 
5SS 
9. V. nodosa. — Ovate, pointed ; obscurely costated, transversely sulcated ; 
spire with two rows of nodiform spines ; pillar with three folds ; lip striated 
within — Sower. Min. Conch, t. cccxcix. f. 2.-~~Lmdon Clay. 
10. V. geminata. — Ovate, ventricose, pointed, costated ; costas terminated 
by two obtuse connected spines ; pillar with one large and several small plaits, 
curved. — Sower. Min. Conch, t, cccxcviii. f. i. London Clay. 
11. V. Ovato-elongated, acute, costated, and transversely striated ; 
costae numerous, dentato crenated; upper edges of the whorls toothed; pillar 
with three unequal folds ; lip smooth within, its edge crenulated — (Buccinum 
scabriusculum, Bratider^ f. 7B) Sotver. Min. Conch, t. cccxcviii. f. 2. 
Gen. LXVI. VOLVARIA. — Spire very short, aperture nar- 
row, the length of the shell ; pillar plaited ; extremity of 
the canal effuse. 
^97. V. pallida.— cylindrical, smooth, glossy, with four 
strong folds on the pillar. 
List. Conch, t. Dccxiv. f. 70. outer fig. — Voluta pall, Linn. Syst. i. 1189. 
Adams., Linn. Trans, iii. 253. — .Bulla pall. Don, Brit. Shells, t. Ixvi.— 
Vol. pal. Mont. Test. Brit. 232 — English coasts, rare. 
Length half an inch, breadth a quarter ; separating line scarcely visible ; 
outer lip straight, inner lip slightly concave at the pillar ; the four teeth 
nearly of equal size. 
298. V. Shell oval, white, faintly striate longitudinal- 
ly ; with two folds on the pillar. 
Voluta alba, Test. Brit. 235. Turton's Conch. Diet. 250.— Ire- 
land and Scotland, rare. 
Length about J^th of an inch, breadth |ds less ; oval, tapering to an ob- 
tuse point, whorls five or six, quite flat, and not visibly raised; the first very 
large, and occupying three-fourths of the shell ; aperture narrow, oval ; pillar 
quite smooth, sometimes a little spread — This species, as described by Dr 
Turton, from specimens found in Dublin Bay, (and which, according to Mr 
Lowe, (ZooL Journ. ii. 106.) agree with those found at Oban in Argyleshire), 
seems to differ from the specimen described by Montagu, in the Supplement 
to Test. Brit. 103. as having been found by Mr Laskey at Dunbar, and which 
is stated as having four folds on the base of the pillar, besides some slight 
denticulations higher up. 
EXTINCT SPECIES. 
1. V. acutiuscula . — Nearly cylindrical, with a pointed apex ; spire conceal- 
ed ; striae numerous, composed of squarish impressions ; plaits upon the pil- 
lar variable Soiver. Min. Conch, t, cccclxxxvii — London Clay. 
Gen. MITRA.— Turrited, pillar plaited, the anteal folds the 
smallest ; extremity of the canal emarginate. 
1. M. Lamherti. — Fusiform, short, smooth; base elongated, obscurely trun- 
cated ; pillar with three or four plaits ; aperture acute above, outer lip sharp, 
not expanded towards the base.— -Voluta Lamberti, Sower. Min. Conch, t. 
cxxix.— Marl. 
