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or less divided by numerous varices, ornamented with curiously developed 
branches or spines, each of which forms in its turn the lip or outer mar- 
gin of the aperture, and is occasionally furnished with a single prominent 
tooth ; the aperture is nearly orbicular, and the columella, which is smooth 
and arched, ends in a canal, which is sometimes long, straight and tubu- 
lous, sometimes very short and recurved. The operculum is small and 
horny. 
Examples. 
Pl. CCXXXVII. Fig. 52. 
Murex rArispina, Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 158. Martini, 
Conch., vol. iii. pl. 113. f. 1056. 
Pl. CCXXXVII. Fig. 53. 
Murex Ferrugo, Wood, Index Testaceologicus, Supp., pl. 5. f. 16. 
Murex anguliferus? Lamarck. ° 
Pl. CCXXXVII. Fig. 54 and 54*. 
Murex tripterus, Born. Mus., pl. 10. f. 18 and 19. Wood, Index Tes- 
taceologicus, pl. 25. f. 15. 
Pl. CCXXXVIII. Fig. 105. 
Murex micropuy.uus, Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 163. En- 
cyclopédie Méthodique, pl. 415. f. 5. 
Pl. CCXXXVIII. Fig. 106. 
Murex ciavus, Kiener, Iconographie des Coquilles vivantes, pl. 37. f. 2. 
Martini, Conch., vol. iii. pl. 111. f. 1033 to 1035. 
Murex uncinarius, Sowerby (not of Lamarck). 
Pl. CCXXXVII. Fig. 107. 
Morex triconutaris, Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p.165. Sow- 
erby, Jun., Conch. Illus. Cat., p. 4. no. 56. 
Pl. CCXXXVIII. Fig. 108. 
Murex varius, Sowerby, Jun., Proceedings Zool. Soc., 1840, p. 144. 
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