152 SPEC I FIC 



spots on the transverse raised lines and stria? ; 

 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 stri- 

 ate. 



Inhabits Asia, America, Persia, and the Red Sea. 



Fig. 3. M. Rano. 



Shell rough, having two opposite compressed 

 varices ; belts muricate j aperture ovate and rather 

 toothed. 



Lister Co7ich. tab. 995. fig..')S. 



Specimen reddish brown inclining to cinereous, 

 and much ])alcr towards the varices ; two muricate 

 belts on the body ; transverse strice raised and gra- 

 nulate. 



Inhabits Asia. 



The second variety of this species differs so much 

 from the present one, that it cannot properly be 



