MUEEX.— Plate XII. 



Species 49. (Mu.s. Cuming.) 



MuREX VAKlcosus. Miir. testa, suhelongato-pyriformi, 

 transverdm sqiimnato-lirata, splrm SMturis profundi 

 cavernosis ; septifariam vai'icosd, varice nlt'mio mar- 

 ginaliplanifroiidoso, fronditnis cannticulatis ad sum- 

 mitatem palmaiis, extm crispato-squmiiatis, varicibus 

 coeteris frondilms irregularibus plus minusve confrago- 

 sis ; alM,frondibus nigricante-fusck; aperturd pecu- 

 liariter parvd. 



The vaeicose Murex. Shell somewhat elongately pyri- 

 form, transversely squamately ridged, sutiu'es of the 



spu'e deeply cavernous ; seven-varicose, the marginal 

 varix flatly frondose, fronds canaliculated, palmated 

 at the summit, crisply scaled on the outside, the rest 

 of the varices with the fronds irregular and more or 

 less obscurely broken away ; white, fronds blackish 

 brown ; aperture pecidiarly small. 



SowEEBY, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1840. 



Hab. ? 



An interesting species established by iL'. Sowerby, ap- 

 proximating, in some degree, to the Mnrex seciindns. 



