MUREX. 705 



973, and 1. 102. f. 976 and 977. Schroeter Einl. p. 502. 



Gmelin, p. 3537. 

 Boncmtii Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 173. Lister Conch, t. 804. 



f. 12 and 13. Rumphius, t. 24. f. E. ? Gualter, t. 2S. 



f. N. ? Klein Ost. t. 1. f. 30. Seba, iii. t. 60. f. 41 and 



48. Knorr, i. t. 25. f. 5 and 6. Favanne, t. 24. f. A 1. 

 Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean Linnaus. Coasts of Coromandel. 



Martini. China. Humphreys. 

 Shell varying in length from eleven to fifteen lines, and in 

 breadth from eight to thirteen ; the throat in the larger shells 

 is most commonly yellowish, and in the smaller is more or 

 less tinged with violet ; the outer surface is white or brown- 

 ish white widx transverse rows of remote pointed black tu- 

 bercles, sometimes forming subulate spines, particularly on 

 the margin of the outer lip, though they are rarely so long as 

 is represented in the figures of Rumphius and Gualter, to 

 which Linnaeus has referred. Martyn in his Universal 

 Conchology has figured the shell, but 1 cannot ascertain the 

 number of his plate. In Callone's Catalogue, p. 31, the 

 yellow-throated Variety is said to be the Buccinum Ricijius, 

 and the' violet-coloured one the Buccinum amethystinum 

 of Solander, but among Solander's MSS. in Sir Joseph 

 Banks's library there is not any description under either of 

 these names. 



NODUS. 47. Shell obovate, attenuated at both ends, 

 and armed with conical spines; outer lip 

 toothed, and the pillar smooth and flesh- 

 coloured. 



Murex Nodus. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1219. Born Mus. 



p. 303. Gmelin, p. 3537. Museum Leshiamim, p. 



%5o. 

 Murex Hippocastanum, Var. /3. Gmelin, p. 55SQ. 

 Murex, No. 10. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 545. 

 Buccinum strumosum. Solander s MSS. 

 Lister Conch, t. 991. f. 53. Petiver Gaz. t. 19. f- 10. 



Seba, iii. t. 60. f. 1 1. Martini, iii. t. 100. f. 956 to 958. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Jamaica. Lister. 



Shell about an inch and and a half or two inches long, and al- 

 most equally broad ; the body-whirl is armed with one or 

 two transverse rows of large conical spines, and is much 

 larger than the spire ; the aperture is ovate, and the inside 

 of the outer lip toothed ; colour greyish white variegated 

 with black. 



