MUREX. 747 



Inhabits sand on the shores of India. Spengkr. 



No addition has been made by GmeHn to the above specific 

 character, and I have not a copy of Spengler's work to re- 

 fer to. 



SCRIPTUS. 138. Shell fusiform, smooth, of a pale 

 colour, with longitudinal brown striae ; inner 

 lip toothed. 



Murex scriptus. Linnaus Si/st, NaL p. ]225. GmeJin, 

 p. S554. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. 



Linnzeus says that this shell is larger than a grain of barley, 

 smooth all over, of a whitish colour, with flexuous longitu- 

 dinal dark stripes, and has only a very small beak. 



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Ttirreted and siibulate, ivith a very short JBeaJc. 



OBELiscus. 139. Shell ventricose, with four g^ra- 

 nulated ribs, of which the uppermost is tu- 

 berculated; pillar with one tooth, and the 

 beak ascendina:. 



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Murex Sinensis. Gmelin, p. 3542. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 237. 

 Murex, No. 44. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 560. 

 Strombus acanthinus. 3Ius. Geversianum, p. 292. No. 483. 

 Cerithium Obeliscus. Bruguiere E?ic. Meth. p. 472. 

 Obeliscus Chinensis, Martini, iv. p. 325. t. 157. f. 1489. 

 Lister Conch, t. 1018. f. 80. Petiver Gaz. t. 152. f. 4. 

 Gualter, t. 56. f. M. Argenville, t. 11. f. F. Seba, iii.t, 

 50. f. 26 and 27, andt. 51. f. 26. Favanne, t. 39. f. C6. 



Inhabits the coasts of Jamaica and Barbadoes. Lister. St. 

 Domingo and Guadaloupe. Bruguiere. 



Shell about two inches long, and the breadth is nearly two-fifths 

 of the length ; the colour is brownish, variegated with dark- 

 er and white spots, and transverse brown lines ; the body- 

 whirl has four narrow transverse ribs, of which the lower- 

 most is only minutely granulated, and the uppermost strong- 

 ly tuberculated ; the pillar is very short and reflected. Gme- 

 liu's name of Sinensis is improper for a West India species, 

 and has been derived from some fanciful resemblance which it 

 has been supposed to bear to a Chinese clock-tower* 



