We have seen another indian painting, in which, not only the Chank Shell is furnished on each side with alæ, or wings, but an expanded flower of six petals is placed upon its pinnacle. This shell, if we may judge from its outline, is of that kind which has the spire depressed. Lord Valentia is in possession of a bronze cast, in which Vishnu appears reclined upon his couch of serpents, attended by _Lakshmi_ and _Satyavama_, (eternity) in which the shell is also winged, and appears to be of that kind in which the beak is elongated or produced; and if this conjecture be correct, it will appear that the Hindoos venerate indiscriminately, and probably as the same shell, each of those three varieties of Voluta Pyrum, which we have mentioned in another part of this description. Our limits will only permit us to observe that we believe we may add with some degree of certainty, that the reversed shell, the more immediate object of our present dissertation, may sometimes appear also: there is in the temple of _Visweswara_, at Benares, a sculpture of Surya, the Indian personification of the sun, seated in his chariot driven by Aruna, in which the _Chank Shell_ held in his right hand appears to have the aperture on the left side instead of the right, as in the usual growth of the shell. If this be not an oversight of the copyist (_Mr. Moor_) the circumstance deserves peculiar notice. Footnote 16: Vide Catalogue _Lev. Mus._ “Last day, July 12th, 1806, lot 77. _The reversed variety of the High Spired Turnip, from Madagascar_, extremely rare. £7. 7s.” p. 15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: _22_ _London. Published as the Act directs, by E. Donovan & Mess.^{rs} Simpkin & Marshall, Nov.^r 1. 1822._ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONCHOLOGY. PLATE XXII. VOLUTA PYRUM PEAR VOLUTE. _Back View._ UNIVALVE. GENERIC CHARACTER. Spiral; aperture without a beak, and somewhat effuse: pillar twisted or plaited, generally without lips or perforation. **** FUSIFORM. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Shell obovate and slightly tailed with striated whorls on the spire: tip produced and glabrous: pillar with three plaits. VOLUTA PYRUM: testa obovata subcaudata spiræ anfractibus striatis; apice producto glaberrimo, columella triplicata.—_Gmel. Syst. Nat. T. 1. p. 6. 3463. 102._ * * * * *