MUEEX.— Plate XXIII. 



with square blackish-bro\TO spots, lip and columella 

 red ; canal very long, slender, furnished at the upper 

 part with a very few short scale-like spines ; aperture 

 rotundately ovate. 



LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., 12th edit., p. 1214. 



Hob. Ceylon, Mauritius, &c. 



This well-known species is found abundantly through- 

 out the regions of the East. The mag-nificent specimen 

 here figured was collected by Mr. Cuming at the Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



Species 96. (Mus. Taylor.) 



MuREX BRANDAKis. Mur. testd clwoaformi, transversim 

 suhirregulariter liratd et striata ; senfariam varicosa, 

 varictbus planiclatis, nunc muticis et tuberculatis, nunc 

 spinis squamceformibus duabus breviusctdis divergentibus 



armatis ; luteo-fuscescente, columella et aperturee fauce 

 lutescentiius ; columella sape latissime inflatd; canali 

 subelongato. 



The strait-spined Mtjrex. Shell club-shaped, trans- 

 versely somewhat irregidarly ridged and striated ; six- 

 varicose, varices flattened, spineless and tubercled, 

 sometimes armed with two rather short diverging 

 scale-like spines ; yellowish-brown, columella and in- 

 terior of the apertiu'e yellowish ; columella often very 

 widely inflated ; canal rather elongated. 



Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th edit., p. 1214. 



Hab. Mediterranean. 



This well-known MediteiTanean species, like its fellow - 

 inhabitant the Murex truHCulus, is extremely variable in 

 its gi-owth, examples being frequently seen without a sin- 

 gle spine. 



