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from the umbilicus and joiuing the outer lip, while round the umbilicus twists the strong 

 marginal cord which runs out into a strong blunt tooth at the tip of the pillar. Umbilicus 

 deep, small, but strougly marked. H. - 06 in. B. 0"05. Penultimate whorl, height - 01. 

 Mouth, height 0'03, breadth 0"028. 



This species differs from Crossed bellula, A. Ad., in being higher, with a smaller and more scalar 

 spire, and a more elongated base. Its smaller size, higher and narrower form, striated sculpture, and 

 strong projecting pillar-point distinguish it markedly from Crossed concinna, Ang., Port Jackson, 

 Sydney. 



Family Muricid.e, Fleming, 1828. 



Genera. 1. Murex, Linne. % 2. Typhis, Montf. 3. Trophon, Montf. 



1. Murex, Linne, 1758. 



1. Murex (Tribulus) aduncospinosus, Beck. 



2. Murex {Tribulus 



3. Murex (Tribulus 



4. Murex (Tribulus 



5. Murex (Tribulus 



6. Murex (Tribulus 



7. Murex (Tribulus 



8. Murex (Haustellum) n. sp. 1 



9. Murex (Chicoreus) calcar, Kiener. 



10. Murex (Chicoreus) cervicornis, Lam 



11. Murex (Chicoreus) maurus, Brod. 



macgillivrmji, Dohrn. 

 nigrospinosus, Reeve. 

 tenuispina, Lam. 

 ternispina, Lam. 

 acanthosteplies, Wats. 

 acanthodes, "Wats. 



Species. 



12. Murex (Chicoreus) monodon, Sow. 



13. Murex (Chicoreus) palmiferus, Sow. 



14. Murex (Pteronotus) acanthopferus, Lam. 



15. Murex (Pteronotus) triformis, Reeve. 



16. Murex (Pteronotus) cordismei, Wats. 



17. Murex (Phyllonotus) endivia, Lam. 



18. Murex (Phyllonotus) zelandicus, Q. and G. 



19. Murex (Ocinebra) aciculatus, Lam. 



20. Murex (Pseudomurex) pholidotus, Wats. 



21. Murex (Pseudomurex) pauper, Wats. 



22. Murex (Pseudomurex) fusulus, Brocchi. 



23. Murex (Pseudomurex) aedonius, n. sp. 



1. Murex (Tribulus) aduncospinosus (Beck), Reeve. 



Murex aduncospinosus, Beck, MS. 



„ ternispina, var., Sowerby, Conch. Must., No. 2, fig. 68. 



aduncospinosus, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. iii. pi. xxiii. fig. 93. 

 ,, „ A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, p. 370, sp. 3. 



,, (Tribulus) aduncospinosus, Kobelt, Jahrb. d. deutsch. malak. Gesellsch., 1877, vol. iv. p. 145,sp. 7, 

 „ tribulus, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. iv. pts. 33, 34, p. 2, sp. 3 (in part), pi. ccclxxx. (i. Gen.) 



fig. 4. 

 „ (Tribulus) ternispina, Tryon, Manual, vol. ii. p. 78, pL xi. fig. 118. 



October 6, 1874. Amboina. 15 to 25 fathoms. 



Habitat. — Philippines (Reeve and Cuming), Japan (Adams). 



The embryonic apex forms a very perfect blunt but small tipped cone of 3^ glossy, fulvous, 

 conical, flat-sided whorls, of which the last is margined below by a very fine thread just at the 



