TYPHIS.— Plate I. 



Species 4. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cum. in Brit.) 



HIS CuMiNGii. Tt/p. testa clavatd, pallide fulvd, 

 inter varices purpurea, castaneo maculatd ; anfrac- 

 tibiif siiperrie inflatis, infra nn;/u$taiis, dimidiatim 

 inter rarices tuherciilis elongatis cum tubig convexis 

 (jcren/ibus ; vaticibus angustatis, ad suturam acti- 

 teatig. ad rnnalem hand rontinuis, xiltima ad 

 faciani firnhrialo ; cattail elongalu, angitstato. 



Cuming's Ty'phis. Shell clavato, pale fulvous, purple 

 between the varices, chestnut-spotted ; whorls 

 inflated above, narrow below, bearing elongated 

 tubercles connected with the tubes half-way 

 between the varices ; varices angular, aculeated 

 at the suture, not continued at the canal, the 

 last fringed on the face ; canal long, narrow. 



Broderip. Proc. Zool. Soc, 18;>2. 



Hab. Bay of Caraccas. 



Resembhng Murex Haustellinn in form. 



