152 SPECIFIC 



spots on the transverse raised lines and striae ; 

 aperture white. 



Inhabits Asia, America, and the Red Sea, 



Fig. 2. M. ramosus. 



Shell with a triple row of foliations ; spire con- 

 tiguous; beak truncate. 



Lister Conch. Tab. 946. Fig. 41. 



Specimen white, immaculate, transversely striate. 



Inhabits Asia, America, Persia, and the Red 

 Sea. 



Fig. 3. M. Rana. 



Shell rough, having two opposite compressed 

 varices ; belts muricate ; aperture ovate and rather 

 toothed. 



Lister Conch. Tab. 995. Fig. 58. 



Specimen reddish brown inclining to cinereous, 

 and much paler towards the varices ; two muricate 

 belts on the body ; transverse strite raised and 

 o-ranulate. 



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Inhabits Asia. 



The second variety of this species differs so much 

 from the present one, that it cannot properly be 



