13 ® Hiflory of ANIMALS, 
It is an Eaft Indian fhell, and is highly efteemed, whenever it falls into the way of 
collectors. * 
Valuta fafcia lata flava femplici. 
The Voluta^ with a broad , femple , yellow fafcta. 
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This is an extreamly elegant fhell, and, as it much refembles, fo it very nearly comes 
up to the beauty of the former fpecies: it is fomewhat more than two inches in length, 
when full grown, and is about an inch in diameter at the head } the clavicle is rather 
taller than in the admiral, and has about ten volutions: the ground colour is a bright 
and flrong gold yellow, and the variegations are of the fame beautiful admixture of 
colours with thofe of the other, but they have more white in them: there is a line 
of the ground colour or yellow at the head, of the breadth of a draw j below this 
there is a circular line of the variegations, about equal to it in breadth ; under this is a 
fomewhat narrower line of the yellow, but not pure 5 and under that a very broad 
line of the variegations: below this there ftands a broad line or fafcia of yellow, as in 
the admiral, but without the pundated line, which in that fhell runs through the mid¬ 
dle of it; after this there is another broad fafcia of the variegations, and then the point 
of the fhell, which is alfo yellow: the clavicle is very beautifully clouded with the 
variegations. 
This is alfo a native of the Eaft Indies, and bears a very great price in audions 
and a very high rank in the cabinets of colledors. 
V oluta albida variegata , fafciis duabus luteis. 
The whitifh , variegated Voluta , with two yellow 
fafeice . 
This is a beautiful fhell, and is fhewn in fome colledions as the admiral-fhell, but 
it is vaffly inferior to that elegant fpecies: it is about an inch and a half in length, and 
half an inch in diameter at the head ; the body is conic, though but very little taper¬ 
ing’} and the clavicle is not quite fo tall in proportion, as in the two former : the 
ground colour of this fhell is a dufky whitifh, variegated with feveral faint colours} and 
there are two broad fafciae of a beautiful yellow furrounding it, the one near the point, 
the other a little higher than the middle : the whole furface is fmooth, and the mouth 
narrow. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and is principally brought to us from China; 
when it is in perfedion, it is a very elegant fhell, but the colours are very apt to be 
decayed and dead. 
Voluta rubra mactdis magnis albis variegata. „ _ , ^ _ 
The red Voluta^ with large , white fpots. 
This is a very elegant fhell: it is about two inches and a half in length, and an 
inch and a quarter in diameter} it’s mouth is very long, but narrow } and it’s clavicle 
has only about four turnings, and is very little elevated : the ground colour of the fhell 
is a dufky red, and it is fpotted all over with large, irregular blotches, as it were, of 
white } fome of them are oblong, others irregularly angulated and indented. 
It is a fcarce fhell, we have it only from the Eaffc Indies} the next fpecies is by 
many called by it’s name, but is greatly inferior to it. 
Voluta flava maculis minoribus albis variegata. 
The yellow Voluta y with finaller , white fpots . 
This is alfo a very elegant fhell, but it is greatly inferior to the former: it’s length is 
about two inches and a half} it’s thicknefs fomewhat more than an inch and a half at 
the head, and it thence gradually diminifhes, in a conic form, to the aperture of the 
mouth : the clavicle confifts of about fix volutions, and is carried to a fine point at the 
top, but it is not very high : the ground colour of the fhell is yellow, and it is very 
beautifully variegated with white fpots} thefe are of an irregular figure, and not very 
large, few of them exceeding the bignefs of a pea. 
It 
