MUREX. 757 



suLCATUs. 157. Shell ovate, turreted, with longi- 

 tudinal plaits and transverse ribs ; beak 

 straight, very short, and tubular. 



Murex sulcatus. Born Mus. p. 320, 



Muiex Moluccanus. Gmelin, p. 3565. Schreibers Conch. \. 



p. 236. 

 Murex, No. 40. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 558. 

 Strombiis fuscus. Gmelin, p. 3523. 

 Stronibus, No. 59. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 470. 

 Stronibus palustris, Var. /?. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 190. 

 Turbo Mangiorum. Martini, iv. p. 323. t. 157. f. 1484 



and 1485. 

 Cerithiuni sulcatum. Brnguiere Enc. Meth. p. 480. 

 Bonantd Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 68. Lister Conch, t. 1021. 



f. S5. Rumphius, t. 30. L T. Petiver Amb. 1. 13. f. 22. 



Guaiter, t. 57. 1. E. Knorr, v. t. 13. f. 8. Favanne, 



t. 40. f. A 3. 

 Inhabits marshes in the Molucca islands. Rumphius. 

 Shell about an inch and a half long, and half as broad, of an 

 olive-brown colour, generally marked wjth two narrow cho- 

 colate bands on the body-whirl ; the transverse ribs are 

 broken into nodules on the body-whirl, and the spire is 

 strongly plaited longitudinally ; the aperture is dilated, and the 

 outer lip united to the pillar so as to render the beak tubular. 



LITER ATus. 158. Shell turreted, ventricose, with 

 numerous dotted muricated stria? on each 

 whirl, and the upper stria tuberculated. 



Murex hteratus. Born Mus. p. 323. t. 11. f. 14 and 15. 



Gmelin, p. 3548. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 238. 

 Murex, No. 175. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 600. 

 Cerithiuni litteratum. Brnguiere Enc. Meth. p. 499. 

 Guaiter, t. 5Q. f. N. 



Inhabits the coasts of Guadaloupe. Brnguiere. 



Shell about an inch and a quarter long, and half an inch broad; 

 it has nine or ten whirls, with numerous transverse muri- 

 cated striie, and a row of pointed tubercles at the upper ex- 

 tremity of each ; the colour is while, and the transverse 

 striae prettily dotted with black. 



HEXAGONus. 159. Shell hexasconal, with three 

 transverse granulated ribs, and the upper rib 

 of the body-whirl nodulous ; outer lip thick- 

 ened. 



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