MUEEX.— Plate VIII. 



Saul's Murex. Shell very elegantly fusiform, transversely 

 delicately granosely ridged, sUghtly tuberculated be- 

 tween the varices; three-vai-icose, varices frondose, 

 fi-onds rather erect, foliaceously muricated, with a 

 minute frond intervening ; pale yellowish brown 

 stained with pink, ridges chesnut brown, fronds pink 

 mthin, columella canal and interior of the aperture 

 white, edged with pink ; coliunellar lip simple, smooth, 

 canal rather elongated, recurved. 



SowERBY, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1840. 

 Murex palma-ros(E var., Kiener. 



Hab. Philippine Islands ; Cuming. 



There can be no difficulty in distinguishing this species 

 from the Murex palma-rosa ; it is of an unifonn paler 

 colour, the canal, and columeUar and outer lips being 

 edged with pink, whilst the columellar lip presents no indi- 

 cation of being denticidated, and the fronds have here and 

 there a small fi'ond sprouting up at their base. 



Species 32. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Murex rubiginosus. Mur. testa subabbreviato-fusiformi, 

 tranwerdm granoso-liratd et striata, inter varices for- 

 titer tuberculatd ; trifariam varicosa, varicibus fron- 

 dosis, frondibus foUaceis, brevibus, alternis partis, 

 recumbentibzis ; pallide rubiginosa, liris frotidibusriue 

 nigricante-fuscis ; columella rubiginoso-luteci, apertura 

 fauce alba. 



The rusty murex. Shell somewhat abbreviately fusi- 

 form, transversely granosely ridged and striated, 

 strongly tuberculated between the varices ; three- 

 varicose, varices frondose, fronds foMaceous, short, 

 the alternate small, recumbent ; pale rusty brown, 

 ridges and fronds blackish brown ; columella rusty- 

 yellow, interior of the aperture white. 



Eeeve, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1845. 



Hah. Phdippine Islands. 



This shell, of which both Mr. Cuming and Mi-. Taylor 



possess specimens, is qiute distinct from any species hitherto 



described. 



