VOLUTA. VOLUTB, 251 
Voluta reflexa. Reflected Volute. 
Shell oblong-oval, tapering to a very fine point, glossy 
brownish horn-color, semitransparent, irregularly but disV 
tinctly striate longitudinally :• spires nine, rounded and well 
ityfiijt’d by the line of separation, the first large and cover¬ 
ing more than half the shell: aperture oblong-oval, con¬ 
tracted to a point at the upper end ; the outer-lip thick and 
reflected, with five small teeth on-the inside ; pillar-lip 
fomewhat spread and turned back so as to form a small 
perforation behind it, with throe strong folds and a tubercle 
above them; length more than a quarter of an inch ; breadth 
a third of its length. 
Taken in a shrimp net on the sands at Exmouth, and 1$ 
in the cabinet of Mrs. C. \V. Loscombe. v. m. 
6 . Voluta fusiformis. Spindle Volute. 
Shell glossy-white, transparent, quite smooth, swollen in 
the middle and tapering to both ends: spires four, very 
dat and only defined by a line lucid circular line, the first 
very large and occupying more than three.-fourths of the 
shell, inflated iu the middle and tapering towards the base 
which is rounded and a little reflected : aperture oblgngr 
oval, reaching to the top of the primary volution; the outer- 
lip very thin and plain; pillar-lip smooth, not spreading 
nor reflected, without teeth or folds, but furnished with a 
small oblique gibbosity in the middle : length threertenths 
of an inch; breadth half its length. 
We were iu some doubt whether to place this new and 
elegant species as a Murex or a Voluta; but the polished 
sin-face, the aperture, and the general contour of the shell 
inclined us to the latterfamilv. It was found on the saiids 
at Exmouth, and is in the cabinet of Mrs , C. W, Loscombe. 
v. vi. 
7r Voluta pallida. Pale Volute. 
Lister , pi. 714. f. 70, outer fig .—Da Costa, pi. 2. f./* 
Bulla pallida. Donovan, pi. 6‘(J. 
Shell cylindrical, obtuse, glossy-white, smooth, with 
hardly any distinct spire at the end, the upper volution 
being extremely small and scarcely defined by the line of 
separation: aperture narrow,' reaching nearly the whole 
