MUREX. 683 



CORNUTU8. 5. Shell roundish, with seven varices, 

 and subulate oblique spines ; beak long, su- 

 bulate, straight, and irregularly spinous. 



Murex coruutus. Linnceus S^st. Nat. p. 1214. Martini, 

 iii. p. 372. t. 1 14. f. 1057. Born Mus. p. 28g. Schroe- 

 ter EinL i. p. 478. Gmelin, p. 3525. Schreibers Conch. 

 i. p. 192. 

 Le JBolin. Adanson Senegal, p. 127- t. 8. f. 20. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 283, and Kirch, f. 284. Lister Conch. 

 t. 901. f. 21. Rumphius, t. 26. f. No. 5. Gualter, t. 30. 

 f. D. Seba, iii. t. 78. f. 7 to 9- Knorr, vi. 1. 17. f. 1. 

 Favanne, t. 38. f. E 2. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Africa. Linnaiis. Aniboyna. Rum- 

 phiiis. Magdalen Islands. Adanson. Guinea. Humphreys. 

 Shell five or six inches long, of which the beak occupies nearly 

 half, and the breadth is about three inches ; it is transversely 

 striated, and has seven varices armed with strong oblique 

 spines, which form two transverse rows, and are pointed in 

 opposite directions ; the colour is brownish white. Adan- 

 son, under the name of Le Sirat (p. 125. t. 8. f. 19), has 

 described a Murex, of which he says the animal is exactly 

 the same, and the shell nearly allied to Le Bolin, which is 

 the present species. From this description of Le Sirat, 

 Gmelin has derived both his M. Senegalemis, p. 3536, and 

 his M. costatus, p. 3549- Martini (vol. iii. p. 369.) ex- 

 presses a doubt whether Le Sirat is not the same as Ar- 

 genville's t. l6. f. G, from which Gmelin, at p. 3528, has 

 constituted one of the two species to which he has given the 

 name of M. Candidas. 



BRANDARis. 6. Shell sub-ovate, with seven varices, 

 and subulate straight spines ; beak rather 

 short, and obliquely spinous. 



Murex Brandaris. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1214. Mar- 

 tini, iii. p. 376. t. 114. f. 1058 to 106l, and t. 115. f. 

 1062 to 1065. Born Mus. p. 289. Schroeter Einl. i. 

 p. 479. Chemnitz, x. p. 276. t. 164. f. 1571. Gmelin, 

 p. 3526. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 192. Shazo Nat. Misc. 

 XV. t. 631. 



Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 281 and 282, and Kirch, f. 282 and 283. 

 Lister Conch, t. 900. f. 20. Rumphius, t. 26. f. No. 4. 

 Petiver Gaz. t. 68. f. 12. Gualter, t. 30. f. F. Argen- 

 mile Zoom. t. 4. f. C. Knorr, ii. t. 18. f. 1, and t. 22. 



