STROMBUS. QF 
alone in the cabinet does so) to his language, that its typical 
authority can scarcely be doubted; but whether we should be 
justified in disturbing the modern name, since, without actual 
examination of the type itself, it was impossible to ascertain 
the species originally intended, is open to discussion. The 
type alluded to is apparently the C. moniliferum of Kiener 
(Cog. Viv. Cer. pl. 16, f. 3), but, as the members of that 
crowded genus are by no means clearly defined, I have both 
figured the specimen and described it at large. Its enamel-like 
glaze explains the puzzling expression “ quasi calce obducta.” 
M. tTusrrcuutatus, Linn.—Shell of a shortened turreted 
shape, solid, whitish, armed with spiral rows of tubercular 
points, which, in perfectly fresh examples, are chiefly of a cor- 
neous, in rubbed ones of a chestnut hue; here and there is one 
of them perfectly white, and the basal rows are subarticulated 
with white and chestnut (or horn-colour). Two or three fine 
wrinkled striz intervene between these series, of which there 
are three on the principal turns of the spire, and eight or nine 
on the body-whorl; which last is furnished with an obtuse 
and gibbous varix almost opposite to the thickened edge of the 
outer lip, and terminates anteriorly in a very oblique short yet 
decided tail. Volutions moderately convex, rapidly tapering to 
a tolerably acute apex; suture distinct. Aperture obliquely 
oval, filling rather more than a third of the total length, white: 
inner lip incurved. Length about an inch. 
In the revised copy of the ‘Systema,’ the species has been 
transferred to the genus Murex. 
Strombus palustris. 
This species, of which Linneeus has not signified his posses- 
sion, was pictorially defined by the cited figures of Seba and 
Rumphius, both of which indicate the Cerithiwm palustre of 
authors (Kiener, Coq. Viv. Cerith. pl. 1), a shell whose features 
are not opposed to the brief description. 
