712 MUREX. 



Murex, No. 194, Schroeter Einl. i. p. 608. 

 Buccinum papillosum. Martyn Univ. Conch, il. t. 54. 

 Un Buccin extremement rare. Favamie Cat. Rais. p. ] 87. 



t. 4. No. 889. 

 Spengler Naturf. xvii. p. 24. t. 2. f. A and B. Favanne, 

 t. 79. f. S. 



Inhabits the coasts of New Zealand. Martyn. 



Shell sometimes three inches and a quarter long, and two inches 

 broad, but the specimen which Favanne described measured 

 only two inches and three quarters by twenty-one lines, and 

 the Buccinum Fermis of Martyn is hardly half so large ; it 

 is of a dull straw colour with thick white lips, and the throat 

 brown and shining. 



AUSTRALis. 61. Shell ovate, longitudinally striat- 

 ed with four plaits on the body, and three on 

 the next whirl ; whirls channelled, and the 

 outer lip undulated. 



Murex australis. Gmelin, p. 3542. 

 Murex, No. 195. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 609. 

 Buccinum Vermis. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 53. ? ? 

 Spengler 'Naturf. xvii. t. 2. f. C and D. 



Inhabits the South Sea. Spengler. 



Shell an inch and a half long, and one inch broad, of a straw- 

 colour, with the pillar yellow and the lip white ; it is said to 

 be nearly allied to M. stramineus, and may possibly be the 

 Buccinum Vermis of Martyn, but 1 have not Spengler's 

 work to compare the figures. 



***** Unarmed, tvith a long straight subulate Seah. 



cARiosus. 62. Shell without a beak, somewhat 

 plaited, ovate, acuminated, and the summit 

 carious. 



Murex cariosus. Linnmis Syst. Nat. p. 1220. Gmelin^, 

 p. 3541. 

 Inhabits the Aqueduct at Seville. Alstroemer. Linnaus. 

 Linnaeus has described this species to be " as large as a bean, 



ovate, oblong, acuminated, cinereous, somewhat diaphanous, 



and longitudinally but obsoletely grooved ; apex carious ; 



base emarginate." No other author has noticed it. 



