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809 Crab-whelke, Ej. Mem. cur. ann. 1708. p. 285. No. 7. Buccina intrinfecus 
livida, extrinfecus terrea. Bon. p. 136. Fig. 189. Muf. Kércher. p- 46. Fig. 
191. Muf. Sibbald. 150. 
One of thefe Shells I found in famaicae on the Shores. It is fo 
well defcrib’d and figured by Dr. Lister that I fhall fay no more, 
but that I have had it from many Parts of England, Scotland, Ireland 
Wales, and Norway. I have feen it likewife come from the Cape-of-g00d~ 
Hope, and from the Orkxey Iflands with Hermit-crabs in it. 
XIV. Buccinum album, leve maximum feptem minimum |pirarum. List. 
Hist. an. Ang. p. 1§5- tit. 1. Bacctnum roftratum majus crafjum, orbibus 
paululum pulvinatis. Ej. Hift. Conchyl. Tab. 913. Fig. 4. Idem gracilius. 
Fig. 5. Buccina fents orbibus finita. Bon. p. 137. Fig. 190. Muf- Kyrcher. Vz 
460. Fig.1092. Baccinum Foffile rostratum maximum Lifteri referens. D. Dale 
— Phil. tranf. No. 291. Baccinum medium craffum ponderofum e leve. Pet. mem. 
cur. ann. 1708. p. 285. No. 8. 
This is found in England, Jamaica, and at the Cape-of-Good- Hope. 
XV. Veficaria marina non ramofa, e veficulis infundibali forma, membrana 
undulata extante coronatts, constans. Cat. fam. p. 7. Hift. fam. p. 64. Tab. 24. 
¢ 
Amer. p. 14§. Tab. 168. lit. O. HO WRG aL 
Fig. 3. Alcyonium veficarium coronatum, buccine minimis repletum. Plum, Fil. 
I have nothing toadd to whatI have faid, Pag. 64. of the Firft Volume 
ofthis Hiftory, but only that I belicve this to be the Ovarinm of one of 
the large Baccina before defcrib’d. 
Cuape. VII 
Of Buccina whofe Spire are long and muricated. 
I. Uccinum bilingue maximum, labro maxime patente purpureo, clavi- 
cula muricata. Lift. Hilt. Conchyl. Tab. mut. 863. depitt. Murex 
bilinguis famaicenfis maximus nodulis majoribus. Pet. Mem. Cur, Ann. 
1708. p. 189. N°-1. Marex Famaicenfis fpinis longis distantibus in- 
terne carneus, Ej, ib. N° 5, Murex auritus. Bon. fs 156. N° 304. Maf. 
Kyrcher p. 469. N° 304. Murex alatus ejufd. ib. p. 171. N° 404, 405- 
Muj. Kircher. p. 474. N° 385, 386. Murex Cartaginenfis, Ej. ib. p. 
159. N° 321. Maf. Karcher. p. 470. N&% 321. . : 
This is one of the largeft Shells, very weighty and ponderous. It 
is on the outfide yellowith white, and the firft Circumvolution makes up 
the greateft Part of the Shell, which together with its diffus’d, {pread, Lip, 
refemble a Wing. ‘The infide is extremely well polifh’d and of a fine 
fcarlet Colour, and is made into Buttons being fet in Gold or Sil- 
ver. The midling fiz’d are about a Foot in Length, about half as 
much in Diameter. It hath about fix or feven Spire or Circumvo- 
lutions all of them befee with extant Points, which are blunt and 
vary in their Lengths. 4 
