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Voluta crenulata of Lamarck is a much larger shelly 
and has no canal round the spire, in other respects it so 
nearly resembles this, that it is strange Lamarck should 
refer to Brander’s Murex suspensus, rather than to his 
Buccinum scabriculum, as synonimous with it. 
An extremely common shell at Barton. We are 
obliged to change Brander’s name, not only because he 
has used the same for another shell, but because also 
they both differ from that to which Linneus applied the 
name, and to which Brander refers. 
VOLUTA suspensa. 
Vol. 2.— TAB. CXY. — Fig. 5. 
Spec. Char. Ovate, pointed, obscurely cos- 
tated, transversely striated ; spire with a 
broad canal around it bounded by an erect, 
flat, dentated crown ; base produced. 
Syn. Murex suspensus, Brander , 70. 
The striae around the base are sharply elevated, the 
rest more distant and sunk except the one, at the top 
of the ribs which rises in minute sharp spines. 
We are indebted to the Rev. T. Cooke, for a speci- 
men of this rare Barton shell, that proves what we for- 
merly called a monstrosity of Voluta ambigua, to be the 
Murex suspensus of Brander, but his figure is so small, 
that its characters are obscure. The above description 
was therefore necessary to complete the account of the 
Genus Voluta, and must consequently supply the place 
of that before given with the figure. 
