700 • MUREX. 



Murex maculosus. Gmelin, p. 3548. Schreibers Conch, 



i. p. 197, and p. 206, 

 Murex maculatus. Chemnitz, x. p. 260. 1. 162. f. 1552 



and 1553. 

 Murex, No. 37. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 556, 

 Buccinum vitiliginosum. Mus. Geversianum, p. 304, No. 



585. 

 Buccinum maculosum. Martini, iv. p. 100. 1. 132, f. 1257 



and 1258. 

 Bonanni Bex. and Kirch. 3, f. 48. Lister Conch, t, 1022. 



f. 86. Ritmphius, t 49. f. G. Petiver Amh. t. 8. f. 



15. Seba, iii. t. 51. f. 20 and 21. Favanne, t. 33. f. 



X2. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Isle of France. 



Chemnitz. 

 Shell two or three inches long, and hardly two fifths as broad, 

 of a pale yellowish brown colour somewhat banded, and the 

 varices spotted with brown; the aperture is white, with its 

 outer lip toothed, and the pillar slightly striated, 



SPENGLERI. 37. Shell aiigulaied, with decussated 

 varices, and a concatenated row of granules 

 in the interstices of the transverse ribs ; beak 

 short and straight. 



Murex Spengleri. Chemnitz, xi. p. 117- t. IQl, f. 1839 

 and 1840. 



Inhabits the coasts of New South Wales. Chemnitz. 



Chemnitz has described this shell to be three inches and three- 

 quarters long, and two inches broad, of a yellowish colour, 

 and the throat white ; it has narrow decussated grooves like 

 those of M. Pileare, and there is a row of concatenated 

 granules in the interstices of the transverse ribs. 



PYRUM. 38. Shell ovate, with two varices, and 

 transversely ribbed, and nodulous ; beak 

 long and ilexuous. 



Murex Pyrum, Linnc€us Syst. Nat. p. 1218. Martini, 

 iii, p. 359. t. 67. f. 745 and 746. ? and t. 1 12. f. 1040 to 

 1044. Born Mus. p. 299. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 497. 

 G?ne(in, p. 3534. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 202. 

 Gualter, t. 37. f. F. Jrgenville, t. 10. f. O. Knorr, ii. 

 t. 7. f. 2 and 3. Regenfuss, i. t. 6 f. 60. Favanne, t. 34. 

 f. A 2, 

 Variety B. Shell smaller, and the beak subulate. 



