The adult shell is well known and has been repeatedly figured. It has no overglaze. The characters of the nucleus and the young have been less precisely stated, except as might be inferred from a study of the adult. Chemnitz pointed out that the early whorls are sculptured, and that a coarse spiral striation is faintly visible toward the anterior end. The anterior plaits are less strong than those behind them, especially in the young, a feature which was the chief character relied upon by Swainson in his division of the Volutidse. A young shell of (in all) three and a quarter turns, perfectly fresh, affords the following notes. Color. The beginning of the nucleus livid purple; the second whorl (which is post-embryonic) pale waxen white ; the rest of the shell waxen white with five series of rectangular dark purple-brown spots; two other series begin on the last half-whorl; the spots, at first angular, become rounded at the corners; throat, plaits, and siphonal fasciole of varying pale shades of salmon-color; epidermis very thin, smooth, very pale brown. Sculpture. Embryonic part of the shell finely granulous and with a slightly irregular surface, its initial point rounded and folded in laterally; next half-turn polished, finely spirally striate; then small narrow longitudinal ribs begin to appear, which are most developed on the third whorl and begin to die out at the end of that whorl. These when most developed extend entirely across the whorl, their centres a little more than a millimeter apart, on the average. There are in this specimen about twenty-four well-developed ribs, and a num¬ber more or less incomplete or obsolete. They are, on the body of the whorl, crossed by fine threads, more prominent in the interspaces between the ribs, and on the anterior part by about ten stouter threads, which ride over the ribs and reticulate them; these threads, however, become obsolete on the siphonal fasciole. The pillar has four strong plaits on its posterior half; they increase in size, from in front backward. The length of the shell is 23.0 mm; the length of the last whorl, 19.0 mm; the maximum diameter of the shell, 12.0 mm. The form of the nuclear (embryonic) part is globose, with the initial point rounded and slightly inflated, or protruding laterally from the general orb of the nucleus.

Scaphella junonia (Lamarck, 1804) Junonia Distribution: North Carolina to Florida to Texas; Mexico. Size: 126 mm (5 in).
Description: Color ivory to cream with irregularly sized and shaped reddish-brown spots; shape elongate-oval; sculpture of slightly convex whorls; teleoconch appears smoothish with fine, almost obscure spiral and axial growth threads; nuclear whorls dome shaped, first whorl smooth and brownish, following whorls with axial riblets and fine spiral threads that diminish on the teleoconch whorls; base spirally ribbed; aperture long, almost 3/4 length of shell, pointed on either end; outer lip thin exteriorly, yellowish within; columella with ascending spiral ridges. Habitat: Sand bottoms at depths from 28 to 110 m (92 to 360 ft). Remarks: The name of this elaborately colored shell comes from the peacock, or the "bird of Juno." See Clench (1946, 1953); Rehder (1981).

Description. Shell fusiform, reaching about 115 mm. (4,5 inches) in length, solid and strong. Whorls 5 to 6, shouldered and moderately convex. Color old ivory to cream with a series of mahogany brown spots in spiral rows. These spots are somewhat irregular in shape and size, as they may be subcircular to almost square, the subsutural row being the largest. Aperture long and somewhat elliptical, ending below in an oblique and slightly upturned siphonal canal. Outer lip generally thin on its margin though thickened immediately below. Parietal area very thinly glazed. Columella nearly straight and margined on the parietal side by a low ridge which is formed by the successive growth stages of the siphonal canal. Parietal area supporting four strongly developed plicae. Sculpture consisting of Spiral incised lines on the first two early whorls, in addition to very fine axial ridges. Last two whorls smooth except for a few fine cords near the base. Nuclear whorl smooth and brown in color. Calcarella generally worn away. Periostracum brownish and exceedingly thin. No operculum.
Remarks. This is a rather rare species though of late years specimens have been dredged off the west coast of Florida in fair numbers.
Contrary to Dall's statement (1907, p. 370). this species, as well as others in the genus Scaphella, possesses a radula. This is remarkably small for the size of the animal and is thus very easily overlooked. The rachidian teeth of S. junonia are remarkably similar to those of Volutomitra typica Strebel as figured by Thiele (1929, p. 351, fig. 421). So far as we can determine, there are no traces of any lateral teeth in junonia, though a remnant of these teeth occur in Volutomitra. However, our observations are based upon but a single small specimen of S. junonia which was dredged in shallow water off Sanibel Island, Florida.
The soft parts are colored much like the shell except that the spots are much larger and far more irregular in shape. The surface of the sides of the foot is finely granulose.
Range. North Carolina and south to both coasts of Florida.