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The Hijlory ^ANIMALS, 
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It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and is frequently kept in collections, under the 
name of the Tyger-fhell. 
Voluta alhefcens maculis nehulojis fubrubentibus. 
The white Voluta , with clouded , reddijh variegations. 
This is a very beautiful fpecies ; it is about two inches, or little more, in length, 
and more than an inch wide at the head: the clavicle is moderately exerted, but it is 
obtufe at the extremity, and has only about four or five volutions, and thofe not di- 
ftinCt : the ground colour is a faint white, and the variegations are of a dufky red- 
difii; they are large, and are of an extreamly irregular figure, very indiftinCt at the 
edges, and difpofed without any order on the fhell. 
We have it both from the Eaft and Weft Indies, and it is a fhell of value; the 
French, from the odd diftribution of the variegations, call it the Spedre-fhell. 
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Voluta coronata zonis latis jlavis variegatis . 
The coronated Voluta , with two broad^ varie¬ 
gated zones . 
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This is a very fingular, as well as a very beautiful, fhell: it is three inches long, and 
barely an inch and a half in diameter at the top : the clavicle is fo depreffed, that in a 
front view of the fhell it is not at all vifible : the head is furrounded with a very beau¬ 
tiful feries of tubercles, pointed at their extremities: the ground colour is pale, and 
there are two broad and very beautiful zones running round it ; the one near the head, 
the other toward the other extremity ; thefe are of a fine yellow, but variegated 
in an elegant manner with black and white. 
It is frequent on the coafts of the Eaft Indies, but few arrive here that are in per¬ 
fection. 
Voluta albefcens nigro variegata . 
The white Voluta , variegated with black. 
This is a fmaller fhell than moft of the others of this genus: it rarely exceeds art 
inch and a quarter in length, or three quarters of an inch in diameter at the top; it’s 
body is pretty regularly of a conic figure, and it r s clavicle exerted, and has many volu¬ 
tions, five at leaft, and is obtufe at the extremity: the ground colour of the fhell 
is a pearly white, and it is all over variegated with large and very irregular marks of 
black; they are difpofed in about four feries on the body, and in a fingle row on each 
of the volutions of the clavicle, and are fuppofed to have fome refemblance of the He¬ 
brew characters. 
It is found in the Eaft and Weft Indies; and when perfect, and finely coloured in 
the ground, is an elegant fhell. 
Voluta albida maculis fufcis et purpuro-cceruleis variegata.\ 
The whitiflo Voluta , variegated with brown and purplijh blue /pots . 
This is a very elegant and a very large fhell, for one of this genus: it is often 
near four inches in length, and more than two in diameter at the head ; from hence 
the body tapers but very gradually, and is large and obtufe at the extremity ; and the 
clavicle the other way, though it is formed of feven or eight volutions, is not much 
elated, and is obtufe at the extremity ; the ground colour of the fhell is white, but it 
is very elegantly variegated with fpots of different fizes, difpofed principally in circles 
round it; there are no lefs than twenty or thirty of thefe circles on the fhell, and the 
fpots which form them are fome of them brown, and others of a deep purplifh blue. 
We have it from the coaft of Guinea. 
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