MUREX. 737 



to fig. 13 10 and 1311, which all authors have quoted for 

 that species ; it is said to be about three and a half inches 

 long, sometimes umbilicated, and sometimes not, and to have 

 the pillar with or without plaits. 



PUGILINUS. 111. Shell solid and nearly smooth, 

 with a nodulous keel on the shoulder which 

 has a transverse groove ; sutures channelled, 

 and the beak rather long. 



Murex pugilinus. Born Mas. p. 314. Mus. Lesk. p. 259- 

 Murex Vespertilio. Gmelin, p. S5o^. Schreibers Couch. 



i. p. 218. 

 Fusus crassus carnarius. Martini, iv. p. 162. t. 142. f. 



1323, 1324, 1326, and 132?. 

 Lister Conch, t. 884. f. 6 a. Favanne, t. 23. f, L 2. 

 Variety. With a second row of nodules about half way be- 

 tween the shoulder and the base. 

 Murex carnarius. Chemnitz, x. p. 270. 1. 164. f. 1566 and 



1567. 

 Lister Conch, t. 885. f. 6 h. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Tranquebar, and the Molucca Islands. 

 Martini. Carolina. Humphreys. Nicobar Islands. Chem- 

 nitz. 

 Shell about four and a half inches long, and two and three- 

 quarters broad, of a uniform reddish brown, or sometimes 

 flesh-colour ; the whirls are slightly wrinkled in both direc- 

 tions, and the upper part above the shoulder is rather con- 

 cave ; in my specimen a narrow groove traverses the keel, 

 and is most conspicuous in the interstices of the compressed 

 nodules ; the inside is of a pale flesh-colour. M, carnarius 

 has been placed as a Variety by Gmelin, but is probably a 

 distinct species. 



scoLYMUS. 112. Shell thin, diaphanous, ventricose, 

 transversely striated, and nodulous on the 

 shoulders of the whirls ; pillar straight, with 

 three plaits on the inner lip. 



Murex Scolymus. Gmelin, p. 3553. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 218. 

 Murex, No. 210. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 618. 

 Fusus carnarius legitimus. Martini, iv. p. l64. 1. 142. f. 

 1325. 

 Inhabits 



