Fusus. 83 



turreted, transversely furrowed ; whitish, with 

 longitudinal orange or brown clouds ; whorls sub- 

 angulated in the middle^ and there girded by a 

 series of small compressed tubercles ; tail rather 

 long; lip striated within. 4. E. 424. 5. 



FUSUS. 



Shell sub-fusiform, channelled at base ; without va- 

 rices ; columella having two or three very oblique 

 folds near the canal. 



F. coLus. Fusiform, narrow, transversely 

 furrowed, white ; summit and base reddish ; body- 

 whorl small ; whorls convex, keeled in the middle 

 by nodulous white plaits_, the interstices of which 

 are brown; tail long, slender; lip furrowed within ; 

 margin denticulated. 6. W. 26. 71- 



F. ANTiQuus. Ovate - fusiform, ventricose, 

 with rounded whorls, and somewhat decussated 

 but fine striae ; whitish, when young reddish ; 

 aperture dilated ; with a short beak, smooth and 

 yellowish. 4 or 5. B. W. 26. 49. 



F. iSLANDicus. Fusiform -turreted, towards 

 the lower part ventricose, striated transversely; 

 white; whorls convex; lip thin and smooth within; 

 beak shortish, sub-recurved; apex of spire obtuse. 

 B. 2. W. 27. 107. 



F. MORio. Ventricose, but when aged fusi- 

 form, transversely striated, blackish, with one or 



