WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 
Inhabits Guinea India and the iflands of the Indian Ocean. 
Shell tranfverfely ftriate on the back, and armed with rows of 
obtufe fpines or tubercles varying in numbers: whorls of the 
pire diftant. 
Senticofuse Shell a little tapering, longitudinally ribbed and tranfverfely 
cáncellate : aperture ítriate. 
Bonan. recr. and Maf. kirch. 3. fie. 55- 
Rumpf. muf. tab. 29. N, Gualt. tef, dab. 51. G. 
Argenv. conch. tab. 9. O. Seba muf. 3. te 49. f. 49—49, 
Knorr Vergn. 3- tab. 24. fig. 4; 5. 
Martini conch. 4. t. 155. f. 3466, 1467. 
Inhabits the Indian Ocean: about z inches long. 
Shell yellowifh with a brown band on each of the whorls, the ribs 
prickly: aperture oblong: pillar with a fingle plait: /pire 
pointed, with diftant whorls, 
Melongera. Shel] obovate glaucous, with a fubfpinous whorl rather 
Conful. 
prominent fpire and fmooth aperture. 
Lister tab. 904. Rumpf. niuf. tab. 24. 2, 3. 6. 
Bouan. recr. 3, Jig. 186. 295. My. kirch. f. 185. 296. 
Gualt. tet. tab. 26. F. tab. 31. 
Argenv. conch, tab. 15. H. ios suf. 4. t, 72. fe 1--9v 
Muf. Gotiwald, tab. 11. fig. 71,72, 73.8, b. 
Knorr Vergn. 1. t. 17. f- and 2. 1. 10. £^ 1. 
Regenf. conch. X. t, S. f. 49. t. 10. f, 36. 
Martini conch. 2. t. 39» 40. f. 389--397- 
2. Knorr Vergn. 3. tab. 7. fig. 3. and 5. t. 4. f. 2. 
3, Rumpf. muf. tab. 23. D. tab. 24. f. 4. 
Seba Muf. 3. t. 49. f. 80--82. t. 52, f. 19, 20. t. 60. f. 9, 106 
Muf. Gottw. tab. V1. fig. 742-78. t. 27- f. 187. a. 
Martin. conch, 2. tab, 40, fig, 398 --402. 
4. Chemn. conch. 10. t. 164. f. 1568, 
Inhabits /ndia and America, in great varieties: 5% inches long, 
Shell generaly brown barred with white: aperture oval large : 
Jpire with knotty whorls, rarely fmooth, the firft very large and 
turgid and mottly furrouded with fpines. 
Shell thick ventricofe white tranfverfely grooved and knotty: 
aperture repand ovate: lip finuous, plaited inwardly 
and denticulate. 
Inhabits India. Chemn. conch, 10. tab. 160. fig. 1516, 1517. . 
Shell brown fubovate and [lightly beaked, with crowded 
nodulous paler belts. 
Inhabits Georges Bay, Martyn unir, Conch. 2, tab. 46. 
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