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ix. part 1. p. 58. t. 105. f. 894 and 8D5. Gmelin, p. 



3564. 

 Murex antiquus, Var. y. Gmelin, p. 3546. 

 Murex, No. 66. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 566. 

 Lister Conch, t. 950. f. 44 b. Regenfuss, ii. t. 4. f. S6. 



Martini n. Mannigf. iv. t. 2. f. 14. Favanne, t. 32. f. 



N, t. 79. lower f. F, and t. 80. f. R. 

 Inhabits the European Seas, and the coasts of Norway and 

 Sweden. Linnaus. Britain. Lister, S^c. Denmark. Mul- 

 ler. 

 Shell four or five inches long, and about half as broad, with 

 seveji or eight veutricose whirls ; though thick and heavy, it 

 is semitransparent, and is thickly set with transverse strize 

 which are crossed by other slighter longitudinal ones ; the 

 colour is reddish or dirty white, and the inside yellow. Rutty 

 says that the tail of the inhabitant is more fat and tender 

 than a lobster's. Linnaeus has described his M. contrarius 

 ' striis geminatis,' but I think there can be no doubt that it 

 is only a Variety of this species. 



MAGELLAN icus. 87. Shell oblong, ventricose, with 

 decussated striae, and a callosity on the up- 

 per angle of the aperture ; beak short and 

 dilated ; throat white. 



Murex Magellanicus. Chemnitz, x. p. 275. t. l64. f. 1570. 

 Murex Magellanicus, Var. 0. Gmelin, p. 3548. 

 Murex, No. 142. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 230. 



Inhabits the Straights of Magellan. Chemnitz. 



Chemnitz has described this shell to be three inches and a 

 quarter long, and one inch and three-quarters broad, and it 

 is nearly allied to M. antiquus; it diffeis m having the whirls 

 rather less rounded, the striae more disthictly cancellated, 

 and a tooth-like callosity on the upper angle of the aperture. 

 It is entirely different from M. Magellanicus, Var. » of 

 Gmelin, which is M. lamellosus. 



FORNiCATUs. 88. Shell ovate-oblong, with the 

 whirls somewhat ventricose, striated longi- 

 tudinally, and transversely carinated ; aper- 

 ture dilated, and the beak short. 



Murex fornicatus. Gmelin, p. 3547. 



Murex Aruanus. Born Mus. p. 313. 



Murex despectus. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 523. t. 3. f. 5. 



Murex carinatus. Fennant Zool. iv. p. 123. t. 77. f. 96, 



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