MUREX. 699 



Murex Pileare. Limmus Syst. Nat. p. 1217. Schroeter 



Inn. Ban Conch, p. 43. ? Gmelin, p. 3534. Chemnitz, 



xi. p. il5. t. 191. f. 1837 and 1838.? 

 Murex Olearkim, Var. y. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 493. t. 3. 



f. 3. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 201. 

 Murex Lotorium, Var. 0. Kammerer Cab. Rudolst. p. 



132. 

 Runiphius, t. 49. f- I. Gualter, t. 49. f. A. Seba, iii. t. 



52. f. 1 and 2. Martini, iv. 1. 130. f. 1243, and t. 131. 



f. 1250 and J 251. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. 



The above figures have been referred to by Schroeter in the 

 Eiiileitung, and by Gmelin, but the former has altered the 

 references in his ' Innern Bau Gonch.' ; and there are hardly 

 any two authors who at all agree respecting this species. 

 Martini has only quoted Seba, iii. t. 57- f. 29, and I know 

 not how lo distinguish the figures which he has given from 

 M. Lotorium, of which 1 think there can hardly be any 

 doubt that M. Pileare is nothing more than a Variety. 

 Cliecnniiz, under the name of M. Spengleri, has figured a 

 shell which differs in having a concatenated row of granules 

 in the middle of the larger transverse ribs. 



CANDiSATUs. 35. Shell turreted, with alternate 

 varices, and granulated all over ; aperture 

 channelled above, and the outer lip toothed 

 within ; beak short and straight. 



Murex candisatus. Chemnitz, x. p. 254. t. l62. f. 1544 



and 1545. 

 Murex conditus. Gmelin, p. ooQ5. Schreibers Conch, i. 

 p. 229. 



Inhabits 



This shell is said by Chemnitz to be three inches long and one 

 inch broad, but the breadth appears by the figures to be two 

 fifths of the length ; the colour is whitish, spotted with yel- 

 lowish brown, especially on the varices, and the whirls are 

 granulated all over in transverse rows ; the aperture is some- 

 what channelled at the upper as well as lower extremity, and 

 has the outer lip double ; the throat and inside are striated. 



MACULOsus. 36. Shell turreted, elongated, with al- 

 ternate varices, and decussated striae forming 

 granules at their intersections; beak short 

 and slightly ascending. 



