470 CONIDiE. 



mentum, but showing no traces of an operculum. The 

 siphon is of the usual length in this genus. 



This species was first described as British by Mr. Smith 

 of Jordanhill, who dredged it off Arran. It has been since 

 taken in numerous localities in the Hebrides and Zetlands, 

 in various depths from five to fifty fathoms ; the finest 

 specimens usually from the laminarian zone, and among the 

 stems of Laniinarl<e (M' Andrew and E. F.). In fifteen 

 fathoms, Eda Sound, Orkneys (Thomas). It has been 

 taken in Ireland (Thompson) ; on the Galway coasts 

 (Barlee) ; and Cork (Humphreys). Guernsey (Metcalfe). 

 On the east coast of England it has been taken at Whit- 

 burn by the Rev. G. C. Abbes (Alder). It ranges along 

 the coasts of Spain into and through the ^lediterranean. 

 A specimen dredged off' Gibraltar by Mr. M'Andrew, is 

 identical with the usual British form. 



M. LINEARIS, Montagu. 



Turreted-oblong, longitudinally ribbed, white, with more or 

 less strong spiral raised (and usually brown) threads ; apex often 

 purple ; mouth not very much shorter than spire ; throat in- 

 distinctly crenated ; labial sinus almost obsolete. 



Plate CXIV. fig. 1, 2, 3, and (Animal) Plate R. R. fig. C. 



Murex liiiearis, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 261, pi. 9, f . 4 ; Suppl. p. 115. — Maton, 

 and Rack. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 148. — Turt. Conch. 

 Diction, p. 94. — Dii.LU'. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 745. — 

 Wood, Index Testaceolog. pi. 27, f. 13G. 

 „ clegans, Dong v. Brit. Shells, vol. v. pi. 179, f. 3. 

 Pleuroloma Imcare, Fleming, Brit. Anim.p. 350. — Brit. Marine Conch, p. 197. 

 — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. ICG. 



„ A Costa, Test. Sicil. p. 88, no. 21 ? 



„ coiicinna, Scacchi (1836), Cat. Conch. Neapol. p. 12, f. 18 (teste 



Phil.). 

 „ liyicaris, Kiener, Coq. Vivant. Pleurot. p. 73, pi. 25, f. 4. — Rkkve, 



Conch. Icon, vol. i. Pleur. pi. 33, f. 296. 



