STROMBUS. 671 



Variety. With the spire more produced, and the whirls 

 rounded. 



Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 147. Gualter, t. 32. f. L. Martini^ iii. 

 t. 79. f. 8J7. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Linnaus. Red Sea. ForskaeL 

 Coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Fort St. George iu the 

 East Indies. Petiver. China. Humphreys. 



Shell about an inch and a half long, and an inch and a quarter 

 broad, of a pale brownish or yellowish white, and often 

 marked with crowded zic-zac longitudinal stripes ; the pillar 

 and outer lip are generally more or less covered with a glassy 

 coating ; the variety is sometimes two inches and a half long, 

 and is considerably narrower in proportion to its length. 



viTTATUS. 28. Shell longitudinally plaited, and 

 the spire produced with an elevated belt at the 

 sutures ; outer lip rounded, short and sinuat- 

 ed at both ends. 



Strombus vittatus. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1211. Martini, 



iii. p. 1 10. t. 79. f. 819, 820, 822 and 823. Bor7i Mas, 



p. 282. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 141. Gmelin, p. 3517. 



Schreibei's Conch, i. p. 185. 



Strombus vittatus Mari Rubri. Chemnitz, x. p. 217. t. 157. 



f. 1496. ? 

 liister Conch, t. 852. f. 8. Rumphius, t. 36. f. O. Peti- 

 ver Gaz. t. 98. f. 12, and Amb. t. 7. f. 9. Argenville, 

 t. 9. f. F. Seba, iii. t. 62. f. 18 to 20. Knorr, iii. t. 20. 

 f. 2. 

 Variety, Turreted, with the spire more produced, and the 

 body-whirl shorter. 

 Strombus vittatus angustior. Chemnitz, x. p. 208. t. 155. 



f. 1481 and 1482. 

 Ijister Conch, t. 885. f. 12 b. Favanne, t. 20. f. A 8. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Asia, hinrmus. Amboyna. Rumphius. 



China, and the Red Sea. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about three inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad, 

 of a pale brownish or fawn-colour with white dotted bands, 

 or white with brown bands ; the body-whirl is transversely 

 grooved at the base ; the spire is more produced, and an ele- 

 vated belt at the sutures at once distinguishes this species 

 from S. Fpidromis ; the aperture is white, and the outer lip 

 striated at a short distance from the inner margin. 



