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Murex Cabritii Bernardi. 

 Murex Cabritii Bernardi, Journ. de Concbyl., VII. p. 301, pi. x. fig. 3, 1858. 



Habitat. Off Sombrero, 50-72 fms. ; Station 36, Gulf of Mexico, in 84 fms. ; 

 Station 132, off Santa Cruz, in 115 fms., rocky bottom; Station 143, off Saba 

 Bank, in 150 fms.; Station 155, off Montserrat, in 88 fms.; Stations 253, 254, 

 off Grenada, in. 92-164 fms., coral; and Station 272, off Barbados, in 76 fms. 

 Bottom temperatures 57° to 69° F. 



This is a fine species, of which the adults are a fine uniform pink, or pinkish 

 white, with no dots or other color markings whatever. They may be luxu- 

 riantly spinous, or nearly destitute of spines. 



Magnificent specimens were dredged in 25 fms., in the Gulf of Mexico, in 

 various places by the Fish Commission, and off shore it was found even as far 

 north as Stations 2595 and 2604, in 34-63 fms., sand, 20-40 miles east and 

 south from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Murex Tryoni Hidalgo, from the 

 figure and description, seems to be a young specimen of this species. 



Murex elegans Beck. 

 Murex elegans (Beck) Sowerby, Conch. Illustrations, fig. 84. 



Habitat. Off Sombrero, in 54 fms.; Station 290, at Barbados, in 73 fms., 

 coral, bottom temperature 71°.0 F. 



This seems a strictly Antillean species with which trilineatus Reeve is sy- 

 nonymous, but which seems perfectly distinct from the genuine recurvirostris, 

 which name has been made to cover a heterogeneous collection in Tryon's 

 Manual. 



Murex messorius (Sbt.) Reeve. 

 Murex messorius Reeve, Conch. Icon. Murex, fig. 90, 1845 (not of Tryon). 



Habitat. Station 142, Flannegan Passage, living in 27 fms., .sand. Dead 

 specimens at Station 220, off St. Lucia, in 116 fms., rocky bottom; Station 247, 

 in 170 fms., ooze, off Grenada; bottom temperature 78° F., at the first station. 

 In shallow water near the shore on the coast of Florida and the mainland 

 round to Aspinwall. 



This form is almost without spines, has one faint and two strong intervarical 

 ribs, and has no color dots or lineations. It has a hispid epidermis, while 

 that of M. Cabritii, its nearest relative, is smooth. The latter has a perfectly 

 straight and much longer canal, unless it has met with some injury. The 

 Florida specimens are often of a deep rose-pink. They are usually less hooked 

 and spinose than the discolored specimen figured by Reeve, and have been 

 well figured as Murex Gundlacld by Dunker. 



