STROMBUS. 667 



Junior. With the outer lip imperfect. 



Seba, iii. t. 61. f. 21 . Martini, iii. t. 88. f. 863 and 864. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Linnccus. Coasts of Amboyna, 

 Rumphius. Isle of France. Martini. China. Humphreys. 



Shell an inch and three-quarters or two inches long, and about 

 half as broad, and the body-whirl is flattened on the side next 

 the pillar ; the first whirl of the spire is very gibbous, and, 

 has obtained for the shell its common name of the Pozo- 

 ter, from a fancied resemblance to the breast of the bird so 

 called ; it is white variegated with brown, or sometimes 

 tinged M-ith flesh-colour, and within the aperture is a broad 

 red or purplish stripe running parallel to the margin of the 

 outer lip. 



ONiscus. 21. Shell ob-ovate, with about three 

 transverse nodulous belts; pillar-lip granulat- 

 ed, and the outer lip thickened and toothed 

 within. 



Strombus Oniscus. Lin?icEus Syst. Nat. p. 1210. Born 

 Mus. p. 279. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 434, and Inn. Bau 

 Conch. ^. 12. t. 4. f. 8. Gmelin, p. 3514. Schreibers 

 Conch. \. p. 182. Chemnitz, xi. p. 143. t. 195 A. f. 

 1872 and 1873. 

 Cypraea conoidea. Scopolidel Ins. ii. p. 78. t. 24. f. 3. Gme~ 



tin, p. 3414. 

 Cassidea Oniscus. Brugniere Enc. Meth. p. 432. 

 Cassis. Martini, ii. p. 42. t. 34. f. 357 and 358. 

 Lister Conch, t. 791. f- 44. Petiver Gaz. t. 48. f. 16. 

 Gualter, t. 22. f. I. Seba, iii. t. 55. f. 23. Knarry iv. 

 t. J 2, f. 4, and vi. t. 15. f. 6. Famnne, t. 26. f. K. 

 Inhabits the West Indian Seas. Martini. 

 This shell has been arranged among the Helmets by Lister, 

 Martini, and Brugniere, among the Cones by Gualter, with 

 the Strombi by Linnaeus, and as a Cypraea by Scopoli. It 

 is sometimes sixteen lines long and ten broad, but is gene- 

 rally smaller ; the colour is most commonly white with irre- 

 gular brown spots, but I have a specimen which is dark brown 

 with only a few white markings ; the spire is depressed, and 

 terminated by a small pointed summit ; the aperture is long 

 and narrow ; in young shells the outer lip is thin, and the 

 transverse nodulous belts of the body-whirl give its margin ^ 

 sinuated appearance. 



