MUREX. 687 



Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 275 and 276, and Kirch, f. 280 and 



281. Lister Conch, t. 946. f. 41. Rumphius, t. 26. f. 



A, C, and No. 1. Petiver Amb. t. 12. f. 1 and 2. Gual- 



ter, t. 37. f- D, G, H, I, and L, and t. 38. Kleiti Ost. 



t. 4. f. 82. Jrgenville, t. l6. f. C, E, and H. Seba, iii. 



t. 77. f. 1 to 4, and 7 to 12. Knorr, i. t. 25. f. 1 and 2, 



and t. 26. f. 1 and 2 ; ii. t. 7. f. 4 and 5 ; iii. t. 9- i- 3 ; 



and V. t. 1 1. f. 1. Regoifuss, i. t. 7. f. 6. Favanne, t. 



36. f. E 1, E 2, F, H 1, H 2, I 1 and I 2. 

 Variety B. White, tinged with red, and the foliated varices 

 dark purple. 

 Murex versicolor. Gmelin, p. 3530. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 195. 

 Murex, No. 163. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 596. 

 Knorr, v. t. 4. f. 1. 

 Variety C. Of an uniform blackish brown colour. 

 Murex Monachus Capucinus. Chemnitz, xi. p. 123. t. 192. 



f. 1849 and 1850. 

 Inhabits the Persian Gulf, and the coasts of Jamaica. Linnet- 

 us. Amboyna. Rumphius. West Indies. Regenfuss. East 

 and West Indies, China, Madagascar, and Martinique. 

 Humphreys. 

 This shell varies very much in its size and colour, and in the 

 size of its foliated varices ; the length is from two to five 

 inches, and the breadth is about half the length ; the colour 

 is sometimes almost uniformly white, pale yellow, brownish, 

 pale red, or nearly black, and sometimes the whirls are of 

 one, and the foliations of another of these colours, or mark- 

 ed with dark transverse lines in pairs. 



FOLIATUS. 13. Shell transversely ribbed, with three 

 membranaceous foliated varices, and the aper- 

 ture one-toothed. 



Murex foliatus. Gmelin, p. 3529. 



Murex Purpura alata. Chemnitz, x. p. 250. t. l6l. f. 1538 



and 1539. 

 Purpura foliata. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 66. 



Inhabits King George's Sound. Martyn. Coasts of New Zea- 

 land. Humphreys. 



Shell about two inches and a quarter long, and an inch and a 

 half broad, of a greenish white colour more or less tinged 

 with red ; the aperture has a broad erect tooth on the margin 

 of the outer lip near the base, and the beak is closed. 



