PLATE CLXXX. 



MUREX DESPECTUS. 



DESPISED MUREX, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spiral, rough. The aperture ending in a strait, and somewhat pro- 

 duced gutter, or canaliculation. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Tail patulous : shell oblong ; whorls eight, with two elevated lines. 



MurexDespectus : testa patulo- subcaudata oblonga : anfra&ibus 



octo lineis duabus elevatis. Linn. It. Wgoth. 

 200. tab. 5. f. 8. 



The present shell, it must be tacitly acknowledged, is inserted 

 among the rarer shells of this country on very slight authority ; 

 namely, that of a friend, who .believes he once saw a few 

 specimens of this Murex that were fished up in the sea at a short 

 distance to the north of the Orknies. — On this suspicion only we 



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