STROMBUS. 677 



Svnior. With the outer hp unexpanded. 



Nerita Uneata. Midler Verm. ii. p. 189. Schroefer Fluss. 



. p. 339. 



Strombus lineatus. Gmelin, p. 3521. 

 Hehx, No. 77. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 199- 

 BuHnius terebrahs. Bruguiere Erie. Met/i. p. 328. 

 Lister Couch, t. 116. f. 11.? Martini Berlin Mag. iv. U 

 10. f. 50. 



Inhabits marshes in the Island of Amboyna. Rumphius. 



Shell about three inches long, and three-quarters of an inch 

 broad, of an uniform brownish black or dark chestnut-colour, 

 and the inside white ; it consists of thirteen or fourteen flat- 

 tish contiguous whirls, which are very finely striated trans- 

 versely ; the aperture is oval, and terminates at both ends in 

 a somewhat similar canal. Bruguiere for this species has 

 quoted Gualter, t. 6. f. E and F, and MuUer has cited these 

 figures, though with a mark of doubt, for his Nerita punc- 

 tata, which has been twice described by Gmelin, under the 

 names of Strombus punctat us and Buccinumjluviatile, and 

 is too uncertain a species to be retained ; for the same shell 

 Lister, t. 975. f. 36. is referred to, and this has been also 

 quoted by Gmelin, as well as by several other authors, for a 

 Variety of Buccinum strigilatum. The shells which form 

 the present turreted division of the Strombi belong to the 

 same natural family as Murex Aluco, and M. fuscatus, and 

 I am unable to discover any separating line. 



AURiTUS. 41. Shell turreted, and transversely stri- 

 ated, with a row of remote tubercles, and a 

 brown band on each whirl ; outer lip con- 

 tracted at the upper extremity. 



Strombus auritus. Gmelin, p. 3522. 



Strombus Tympanorum, &c. Chemnitz, ix. part 2. p. 192. 

 t. 136. f. 1265 and 1266. 



Nerita aurita. Muller Verm. ii. p. 192. 



Murex fasciatus. Gmelin, p. 3561. 



Murex scolopaceus, Var. /3. Gmelin, p. 3548. 



Murex, No. 48. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 56l. 



Bulimus auritus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 33 1 . 



Lister Conch. t.Vil.i.lQ. Seba,'\\\. X. 50. i. 3Q. Knorr^ 

 iii. t. 26. f. 5. Martini Berl. Mag. iv. t. 10. f. 55. 

 Inhabits rivers in Guinea. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about twenty lines long, and seven broad, with nine 



whirls, of which the uppermost is rarely entire ; the colour 



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