MUREX. 701 



Regenfuss, i. t. 5. f. 50. Martini, iii. t. 112. f. 1048 and 

 1049. 



Variety C. With the body-whirl gibbous, the lips thick, and 

 the beak recurved. 



Murex, No. 26. Schroetcr Einl. i. p. 552. 

 Murex, No. 39. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 205. 

 Martini, iii. t. 112. f. 1050 and 1051. 



Inhabits the coasts of Coromandel. Martini. 



Shell commonly about four inches long, and an inch and three- 

 quarters broad, of a pale reddish or brownish yellow, and 

 the throat is of the same colour ; the aperture is ovate, and 

 ends in an attenuated flexuous beak, which is commonly 

 about half as long, and in the Variety B, is nearly of the 

 same length as the body-whirl ; the Variety C. is probably 

 a distinct species. 



CLAVATOR, 39. Shell ovate, with two varices, lon- 

 gitudinally plaited and striated, and trans- 

 versely riljbed ; beak long and flexuous. 



Murex Clavator. Chemnitz, xi. p. 110. t. 190. f. 1825 and 

 1826. 



Inhabits the coasts of Ceylon. Chemnitz. 



Shell about two inches and a quarter long, and rather more 

 than one inch broad, of a whitish colour with the plaits yel- 

 lowish ; the interstices of the longitudinal plaits are striated 

 in the same direction, and crossed transversely with stronger 

 nodulous ribs ; the aperture is oval, ending in a long flexuous 

 beak, and the outer lip double and toothed. 



CAUDATUS. 40. Shell with two varices on the body- 

 whirl, and transverse granulated ribs ; whirls 

 excavated at the sutures, and the beak subu- 

 late. 



Murex caudatus. Gmelin, p. 3535. 



Murex, No. 25. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 551. 



Mures, No. 38. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 205. 



Lister Conch, t. 893. f. 13. Martini, iii. t. 112. f. 1045 

 to 1047. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Coromandel. Martini. 

 Shell about two inches long and half as broad, and the beak 



occupies rather more than half the length of the body-whirl, 



which on the shoulder is slightly nodulous transversely ; the 



ribs are granulated, and the interstices transversely striated ; 



the whirls are rounded, and deeply excavated at the sutures ; 



colour white, shaded with pale reddish or yellowish brown. 



