MUEEX.— Plate II. 



Species 9. (Mus. Cuming.) 



MUREX CLAVTJS. Mur. tedd elongato-fusrformi, spird tri- 

 gono-titrritd, squamis erecto-reeurvis ad angulos apicmi 

 versus mic'matd ; anfractibus octonis, trigonis, Icevibtis, 

 ant obsolete liratis H striatis, inter varices tiiberculato- 

 pUcatis ; trivaricosd, varice ultimo marginali latissime 

 fmbriato-pinnato ; nived, roseo tinctd, columella palUdi 

 rosed; canali subelongato ; aperturd parvd, lairo ex- 

 terna denticulato. 



The euddee Mueex. Shell elongately fusiform, spire 

 triangularly turreted, armed at the angles towards the 

 apex with erectly recm'ved hook-Uke scales ; whorls 

 eight in number, tlu-ee-sided, smooth or obsoletely 

 ridged and striated, tubercularly plicated between the 

 varices ; three-vaiicose, the last marginal varix very 

 broadly fimbriately winged ; snowy white, tinged with 

 rose; canal rather elongated; apertm'c small, outer 

 lip denticulated. 



KiENEE, Icon. Coq. viv. p. 111. pi. 37. f. 3. 



Murex tinciiiarius, Sowerby (not of Lamarck). 



Hab. Island of Masbate, Philippines ; Cimiing. 



A characteristic figm-e of this remarkable species was pub- 

 lished by Martini nearly seventy years since, in the ' Con- 

 chylien Cabinet,' but no further Olustration of it appeared 

 until it was recently figured in the ' Conchological Illus- 

 trations.' ]VIr. Sowerby there describes it as the Murex 

 uncinarius of Lamarck, but as M. Kiener has since shown 

 that species to be another and of very different character, 

 I feel much pleasiu'e in adopting his name. The error into 

 which llr. Sowerby had fallen was, no doubt, occasioned 

 by Lamarck's referring his Murex uncinarius to Martini's 

 figure of this shell ; and eleven lines being the measure- 

 ment given of it, Mr. Sowerby, and even Lamarck himself, 



may have suspected that the Murex uncinarius was merely 

 an example of the shell under consideration in a verj' early 

 stage of growth. 



The nearest allied species to the Murex clavus is that 

 wliich I have just described under the new title of Murex 

 bipinnatus ; in that species the whorls are tuberculated, not 

 hooked, and of a heptagonal form ; in this, they are dis- 

 tinctly three-sided and conspicuously hooked at the angles ; 

 the laminated frUls of the two species are also different. 



Species 10. (Mus. 'WTiite.) 



MuEEX Capucinus. Mur. testd elongato-ovatd, fimformi- 

 turritd, crassiusculd ; anfractibus transversim subirregu- 

 lariter liratis ; trifariam varicosd, varicibus niulti- 

 lamellatis, lamellis brevibu^, cornpressis, externa foliatd, 

 recurvd ; atro-fn-scd, columelld albidd ; canali depresso, 

 breviusculo ; lahro externa intus denticulato. 



The Capuchin Mueex. SheU elongately ovate, fusi- 

 formly turreted, rather thick ; whorls transversely 

 somewhat irregularly ridged ; thi-ee-varicose, varices 

 many-lameUated, lameUae short, compressed, the outer 

 lamella foliated, recurved ; black-brown, colimiella 

 whitish ; canal depressed, rather short ; outer lip 

 denticulated ■within. 



Chemnitz, Conch. Cab. vol. xi. pi. 193. f 1849-50. 

 An eadem. Murex quadrifrons, Lamarck. 



Hob. Philippine Islands (found at the root of Mango trees 

 on the shore) ; Cuming. 



This species may be recognised by the peculiar com- 

 pressed laminated structm-e of the varices. There is Kttle 

 doubt, I tliink, but that Lamarck's Murex quadrifrons is 

 merely an accidental four-varicose variety of this species. 



