iviUREX. 749 



Martini, iv. t. 157. f. 1488. 



Inhabits the East Indies. Martini. 



This shell, as figured by Martini, appears to be sixteen lines 

 long, and half as broad, of a yellowish colour with white 

 longitudinal plaits, which extend from the upper end nearly 

 to the base of the whirls, except in the body-whirl, of which 

 they occupy a much smaller proportion ; it has eight whirls, 

 and a solitary ridge on the pillar. 



ALUCO. 14*2. Shell with a transverse tuberculated 

 line on the lower whirls, and the upper ones 

 transversely striated ; beak ascending. 



Murex Aluco. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1225. Brookes's In- 



trod. p. 120. t. 7. f. 92." 

 Murex Aluco, Var. /S. ,Schroeter EinL i. p. 537. Gmelin, 



p. 3560. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 235. 

 Murex coronatus. Born Mus. p. 322. 

 Turbo muricatus, See. Martini, iv. p. 317. t. 156. f. 1478. 

 Gerithium Aluco. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 476. 

 Lister Cojich. t. 1017. f. 79. Rumphius, t. 30. f. N. Pe- 



tiver Gaz. X. 153. f. 2, and Amh. t. IS. f. 23. Argen- 



ville, t. 1 1. f. H. Gualter, t. 57. f. A. Seba, iii. t.50. 



f. 37 and 39, and t. 51. f. 22, 23, 25, and 27. Knorr, 



iii. t. 16. f. 5. Favanne, t. 39. f. C 10. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus '( Coasts of Amboyna. 



Rumphius. Coromandel. Bruguiere. 

 Shell commonly about two inches long, and three quarters of 

 an inch broad, of a greyish white colour, dotted and spotted 

 with brown ; the whirls have a transverse elevated line or 

 keel, armed with remote compressed tubercles, which become 

 gradually smaller, and disappear towards the summit of the 

 spire ; the pillar-lip has a strong rib near its upper extremity. 



TUBEROSUs. 143. Shell transversely striated, with 

 large pointed nodules on the lower part of the 

 whirls ; outer lip strongly grooved, and the 

 beak slightly recurved. 



Murex Aluco, Var. Linnceus Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 643. 



Murex Aluco. Born Mus. p. 321. Martini, iv. p. 314. 

 t. 156. f. 1473 and 1474. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 534. 

 Gmelin, p. 3560. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 235. 



Cerithium nodulosum. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 478. La- 

 marck S^st. des Anim. p. 85. 



Lister Conch, t. 1025. f. 8?. Rumphius, t. 30. f. O. IV 



