720 MUREX. 



Junior '? Shell much smaller. 



Knorr, ii. t. 6. f. 2. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Africa. Linnaus, Jamaica. Lister. 

 Islands of Goree and Magdalen. Adansoji. Curagoa. S. 

 Muller, 

 Shell from four to seven inches long, and nearly half as broad, 

 of a blackish brown colour, with a narrow white transverse 

 band, and sometimes another yellowish band above it, or 

 with two white bands close to each other ; it is striated 

 transversely and slightly plaited longitudinally ; thfe whirls are 

 transversely keeled, with their upper parts flattish, and some- 

 what nodulous on the shoulder ; Adanson says it is covered 

 with a very thick, velvety, tough epidermis. 



eocHLiDiuM. 77. Shell fusiform, brown, trans- 

 versely grooved, and the whirls flattish above; 

 aperture dilated, and the throat yellowish. 



Murex Cochlidium. Linnaus S^st. Nat. p. 1221. Chem- 

 nitz, X. p. 273. 1. 164. f. 1569. Gmelin, p. 3544. 

 Argenmlky t. 9. f. A. Seha, iii. t. 52. f. 6, and t. 57. f. 

 27 and 28. Favanne, t. 35. f. B 3. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Chemnitz. 



Chemnitz's specimen measured four inches and two lines in 

 length, by one inch and three-quarters, and the spire is about 

 as long as the body-whirl ; it has seven whirls, which are 

 much flattened at their upper ends, and the upper whirls are 

 plaited longitudinally ; the colour is brown. Born consi- 

 dered Gmelin's M. Tuba to be this species, and Meuschen 

 has arranged M. Cochlidium, as well as most of the other 

 shells belonging to this division, among the Buccina. 



TUBA. 78. Shell fusiform, longitudinally plaited, 

 and transversely striped ; whirls subcylindri- 

 cal below, and the shoulders nodulous ; beak 

 attenuated, and rather long. 



Murex Tuba. Gmelin, p. 3554. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 



218. 

 Murex Cochlidium. Born Mus. p. 311. Mm. Lesk. p. 



258. 

 Murex, No. 212. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 619. 

 Martini, iv. p. 171. 1. 143. f. 1333. 

 Inhabits the coasts of China. Martini. 



Chemnitz's figure measures five and a half inches in length, and 

 is about half as broad, of a brownish white colour, with pal» 



