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flames, which are clearly defined af::ainst the white ground on the 

 right-hand side, and shaded off with lighter colour on the left. The 

 narrow clean-cut grooves are for the most part arranged in pairs, 

 the spaces between them being flat, or nearly so, not rounded as in 

 D. Chinense and some other species. 



The specimen was brought from China by the late General Tripe. 



MuREX MTTLTISPINOSUS, n.sp. 



Testa f usiformis, antice producta, postice conica, sordide albida ; 

 spira elato-conica, gradata, ad apicem papillaris, luteo-fusca, leviter 

 obliqua; anfractus 6 J, primi 1^ (apicales) Iseves, rotundati, caeteri 

 obtuse angulati, spiraliter obscure lirati, obtuse bicarinati, longi- 

 tudinaliter undulatim eximie lamellati, varicibus 9-10 aculeatim 

 Bpinosis instructi ; anfractus ultimus supra convexus, infra rostratus ; 

 rostrum elongatum, rectiusculum, supra spinosum, infra Isevigatum ; 

 apertura ovata, intus Igsvis. Long. 23, lat. 13 mm. 



Hab. — Cebu I., Philippines (Tripe). 



Fig. 2. 



Only one specimen of this beautiful little species was found by the 

 late General Tripe during his trip to the Far East. The shell is so 

 unlike any hitherto known, that 1 am unable to place it with 

 confidence in any of the recognised sections. As a multivaricose 

 Murex it miglit {sensu lato) be included in the subgenus Muricantha, 

 Swainson; but its long rostrum brings it into affinity with Rhinocmitha, 

 H. & A. Adams. The operculum, with terminal nucleus, is more 

 like that of Rhinocmitha than of the typical Murex. Possibly the 

 species may find its place in Jousseaume's genus Poirieria, of which 

 M. Zealandicus, Quoy & Gaim., is the type. 



