1080 SERPULA. 



more than five inches, but the summit is elevated only two 

 inches above the base." 



ANGUiNA. 27. Shell rather taper, somewhat spiral, 

 with a longitudinal sub-articulated fissure. 



Serpula anguina. Litmcctis Sj/st. Nat. p. 1267. Martini, 



i. p. 51. t.2. f. 13, B and C. Born Mus. p. 440. t. 18. 



f. 15. Schroeter Eiul. ii. p. 552, Gmelin, p. 3743. 



Shazo Nat. Misc. xiv. t. 57 1 • 

 Siliquaria anguina. Lamarck S^sf. des Anim. p. 98. 

 Le Tire-boune. Favanne, i. p. 660. t. 6. f. G 1, 

 Lister Conch, t. 54S. f. 2. Ramphius, t.4\. f. 2. Petiver 



Amh. t. 22. f. 11 . UAvila. t. 4. f. E. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean. Pallas. Coasts of Amboyna. 



Rumphins. China and Sicily. Humphreys. 

 Shell whitish, clouded with brown or yellow, variously curved, 

 and particularly towards one end is often spiral ; the length 

 varies from two to eight inches, and the diameter of the 

 tube from five to eight lines, and it is marked throughout the 

 whole length by a fissure formed of a continued series of ob- 

 long perforations. The shell figured by Lister and Rum- 

 phius, and Martini, f. A, is much shorter, and consists wholly 

 of a spire of five whirls, and is the Variety /3 of Linnaeus ; 

 but it appears to nie to be only the spiral end broken off 

 from a larger tube. Gmelin's Var. /3 is not in the least like 

 the species, and is much more nearly allied to Teredo 



MURICATA. 28. Shell angular, muricated, with a 

 longitudinal sub-articulated fissure. 



Serpula muricata. Born Mus. p. 440. t. 18. f. l6. Shaw 



Nat. Misc. xiv. t. 575. 

 Serpula echinata. Gmelin, p. 3744. 

 Serpula anguina. Brookes s Introd. p. 142. t. 9- f. 131. 

 Serpula anguina, Var. y. Gmelin, p. 3743. 

 Serpula, No. 1. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 556; and No. 26. 



p. 565. 

 Gualter, t. 10. f. R. Martini, i. t. 2. f. 8. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean. Born. 



This species has the longitudinal fissure and oblong perforations 

 of S. anpuina, and differs only in being of a rose-colour 

 and armed with short spines. Gualter has omitted to notice 

 the longitudinal fissure, but his description and figure in all 

 other respects answer so strikingly to this species, that there 

 can remain no doubt of its being the same. Martini's t. 2. 



