Note 4 — CONCHOLOGY. PLATE IV. VOLUTA SCAPHA var NOBILIS, NOBLE CHINESE VOLUTE. Univalve.

This shell, though sufficiently intelligible among the figures of Kircher’s shells, engraved and published by Bonanni, and also in the works of Lister and some others, escaped the notice of Linnæus. So late as the tenth edition of Systema Natura it does not appear. Gmelin describes this shell with much accuracy in his edition of the last mentioned work, under the specific name of Scapha.