442 WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 
Stramineus. Spire with elevated rings, the interftices filled with fhor 
ftraw-like projections: all the whorls crowned with 
tubercles at the bafe: aperture violet: lip undulate and 
with the pillar fnowy. 
Spengler Naturf. Y7. tab. 2. fig. A, B. 
Chemn. conch. 10. tab. 160. fig. 1520, 1521. 
Favan. conch. tab. 79.8. Mart. univ. conch. 2. f. $3, 54. 
Inhabits the Sowhern Ocean. Shell ftraw-colour, 3 inches long, 
Asfralis, Shell ovate, longitudinally ftriate: lip undulate: whorls 
caniculate, the firft turgid and 4-plaited, the next 
3-plaited. 
Spengler Naturf. 17. tab. 2. fig. C, D. 
Inhabits the South Sea: 2i inches long, 
Shell ftraw-colour, with a yellow pillar and {nowy lip. 
Uncinatus. Spire pointed and tranfverfely ftriate, the 4 firft whorls 
with a callus armed with hooks in the middle, the 
fifth and fixth ribbed, the reft glabrous. 
Inhabits Schrat. flufconch. tab, 8. fig. 15. 
Shell an inch long; aperture oval: Zip toothed: pire with 9 
whorls. 
Turris. Shell tapering, the whorls crowned with tubercles and 
furrounded with a granulate belt, the firft very finely 
ftriate tranfverfely. 
Inhabits Bonan. recr. & Muf. kirch. 3. f. 79. 
Shell white with a reddifh band : refembles M, babylonicus, but 
the lip is entire. 
Costatus. Beak a little refleCted and obliquely ftriate: 3 firft whorls 
of the fpire ribbed, the other 4 cancellate, the firft ob- 
conic; pillar with a fingle plait. 
| Arg. conch, tab, 29. f. 3. Kuorr petrif 2. t, C, ii. fi 7. 
Schrat. Einl. in Verfl. 4. tab. 8. fig. 3. 8. 
Found foffile in Campania: the ribs of the firft whorls terminat- 
ing in fpines above. 
per. Shell longitudinally plaited and tranfverfely ribbed: fpire a 
little prominent: aperture ovate: lip crenulate. 
Inhabits Martini conch. 4. tab, 150. f. 1396, 1397. 
Shell reddifh, with 5 or 6 whorls; the ribs acute. 
Coluse Shell tapering, ftrirte, knotty, carinate. with a long ftraight 
beak: lip crenulate. 
Lifter, tab, 917. f. Vo. t 918. Rumpf, muf. tab. 29, F. 
Bonan. 
