PLATE CLXXX. 



MUREX DESPECTUS. 



DESPISED MUREX. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spiral, rough. The aperture ending in a strait, and somewhat pro- 

 duced gutter, or canaliculation. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Tail patulous : shell oblong ; whorls eight, with two elevated lines. 



Murex Despectus : testa patulo-subcaudata oblonga : anfracfcibus 

 octo lineis duabus elevatis. Linn. It. Wgoth, 

 200. tab. 5. /. 8. 



The present shell, it must be tacitly acknowledged, is inserted 

 among the rarer shells of this country on very slight authority ; 

 namely, that of a friend, who believes he once saw a few 

 specimens of this Murex that were fished up in the sea at a short 

 distance to the north of the Orknies. — On this suspicion only we 



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