STROMBUS. 669 



Shell about a foot lojig, and nine inches broad, thick, ponde-* 

 reus, and is nearly allied to S. Gigas, from which it differs 

 in being unarmed with conical spines ; the outer lip expands 

 so iTiucli upwards that it generally extends beyond the sum- 

 mit of the spire. Young shells are more or less mottled 

 with brown and white, but they afterwards become of nearly 

 an uniform brownish white, and the aperture is tinged with 

 rose-coloiu- ; some specimens are more distinctly ribbed trans- 

 versely than others, and tlie S. Goliath of Chemnitz differs 

 principally from the shell figured by Martini in having attain- 

 ed to greater maturity. 



ACCiPiTER. 24. Shell with the body-whirl crown- 

 ed with spinous tubercles, and their inter- 

 stices striated; first whirl of the spire ribbed, 

 and the next striated transversely. 



Strombus costatus. Gmelin, p. 3520. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 188. 

 Strombus, No. 2. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 450. 

 Ala accipitrina. Martini, iii. p. 121. t. 81. f. 829- 

 Lister Conch, t. 863. f. 18 b. Favanne, t. 20. f. C 2. ? 



Junior. With the outer lip unexpanded. 

 Martini, iii. t. 91. f- 887. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Martini. 



Shell about five inches and a half long, and five inches broad, 

 and is very nearly allied to S. Gigas. D 'Avila, in his Cat. 

 Syst. p. 185. No. 325, says, " Elle en differe d'ailleurs en 

 ce que la bouche n'en est point couleur de Rose, que les tu- 

 bercules du premier orbe en sont plus gros a proportion, et 

 que ceux des autres orbes sont presque entierement caches 

 sous les extremites des orbes precedens ; I'aile est fort epaisse 

 dans I'une, et papyracee dans I'autre." Gmelin's name of 

 costatus had been before used by Da Costa for a different 

 species. 



EPiDROMis. 25. Shell with the spire somewhat 

 plaited longitudinally, and transversely nodu- 

 lous ; outer lip rounded and short. 



Strombus Epidromis. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1211. Mar- 

 tini, in. p. 112. t. 79. f. 821. Born Mus, p. 281. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 439. Gmelin, p. 3516. Schrei- 

 bers Conch, i. p. 185. 



Lister Conch, t. 853. f. 10. Rumphius, t. 36. f. M. Pe- 



