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WORMS. TESTACEA. 75. Voluta. 
Inhabits India-, J inches long. Shell narrow brown, with darker 
longitudinal llri® and elevated tranfverle ones covered with 
flattilh granulations. 
Shell emarginate tranfverfely flriatc, white with rows of 
chefnut fpots which are generally teU'ellate : pillar with 
5 plaits. 
Lister, tab. 838- Gucdt tejl. tab. J3, G. i. 
Sebamuf. tab, ^ 0 . fig. 51. t. 
Knorr Vergn, 4. lab. lA.fig. 3. 
Born Muf. C eef-Vind. tell. tab. fig, 11, 12, 
Martini conch. 4. tab. i\ 7 . fig. 1358, 1359. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean ; refembles V. pertufa, but is more 
ventricofe and obtul'e. 
Shell emarginate fmooth : margins of the whorls entire ; 
lip denticulate ; pillar With 4 plaits. 
Natural. Mifeell. tab. 244. Lister, tab. %l<^.fig. 66; 
Rumpf. muf. tab. 29. K. Gualt, test. tab. 53. G. 1. 
Banan. rear, and Muf. kirch. ^.fig. 120. 
Argenv. conch, tab. 9. C. Bytem. app. tab. 1 1. fig. 47*' 
Seba muf. 3. tab. ^i. fig. 8 — 19. 
Knorr dclic. tab. B. iii. fig. 3. Kergn. 1. tab. 6. fig. 2' 
Regenv. conch. \,tsh, 3. fig. 33. 
Martini conch. 4. fab. 1 47. fig. 1 360, a. 
Inhabits India. The inhabitant or lilh is faid to be of a poifon- 
ous nature, if eaten, and to wound thofe who touch it with a 
kind of pointed trunk. The natives of the ifland Tanna fix 
the Ihells in handles and ufe them as hatchets. 
Shill 5 inches long, covered with a yellowilh -brown cuticle, 
under which it is white with rows of fquarilh bright red fpots 
which are rarely yellow and fometimes confluent: 2 firft 
whorls of the fpire glabrous, the reft finely ftriate tranfverfely. 
Shell emarginate tranfverfely ftriate: margins of the whorls 
and lip denticulate ; pillar with 4 plaits. 
Shanu Natur. Kli/celt. tab. 244, lower figure. 
Lifer, tab. 839.//^, 67. Rumpf. Muf. tab. 29. I, 
Bonan. recr. and Muf. kirch. "t^-fig. 1 19. 
Argemv. conch, tab, 9. E. Gualt. test. tab. 5 3, I, 
Seba muf. 3. tab. 5 1 fig I — 5. 
Knorr Vergn. 1 . tab. 6. fig. 1 . 
Rcgenf, conch, t. t. i.f. 1. 
Martini conch 4. t. 147. f. 1353, 1354.^ 
Liiter. tab. 840. Gualt tejl. tab. 53. I. 2. 
half, -It ahh. tab. fg. 45, 
Seba muf. 3. /. 50./. 29, 30. t. 51. A 37. 
Knorr Vergn, 4. tab. z%.fig. 2, 
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