PLATE CLXIX, 



FIG. I- 

 MUREX BAMFFIUS. 



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 BAMFF WHITE MUREX, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spiral, rough. The aperture ending in a ftrait, and fomewha. 

 produced gutter, or canaliculation. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell ventricofe, white, ribbed longitudinally, with acute 



plaits. 



Murex Bamffius : testa ventricosa alba costis longitudinalibus 



acutis plicatis. 



A nondescript species, discovered by Mr. Cordiner, on the 

 coast of Bamffshire, Scotland; and communicated by him to the 

 late Duchess of Portland. The smallest figure is only of the 

 young shell, we have it of the exact size of the largest figure, 

 numbered 1, in the annexed plate. Uncommonly rare. 



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