FUSUS. 



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his Trophon contrarius) from the glacial bed at Brid- 

 lington, and by Forbes (as F. tornatus of Gould) from 

 Bramerton, Dalmuir, and Bridlington ; it was first de- 

 scribed by Linne, in his 'Wastgotha Resa/ as an Ud- 

 de valla fossil. It is the Murex carinatus of Pennant. 

 Donovan figured a half-grown and much cleaned (or 

 " doctored ") specimen under the name of M. despectus 

 (M. subantiquatus, Maton and Rackett) , supposing it to 

 be Orcadian, on the vague belief of a friend. Pennant's 

 shell (from the Portland cabinet) and that of Donovan 

 are now in my collection, 



F. fornicatus (Tritonium fornicatum, Fabr.) was also 

 figured as a British species, but without any authority, 

 by Donovan ; he at first referred it to the Murex anti- 

 quus of Linne, but subsequently called it M. duplicatus. 

 This is Greenlandic. 



V45* 



2. F. NORVE'GICUS*, (Norvagicus) ^Chemnitz?) fl' 



Strombus Norvagicus, Chemn. Conch. Cab. xi. p. 218, t. 157. f. 1497-8. 

 F. Norvegicus, F. & H. iii. p. 428, pi. cvii. & cyiii. f. 7-9. 



BODY pale orange or yellowish -white, irregularly streaked 

 with purple : mantle thickened on the pillar-side of the shell ; 

 head-veil broad : pallial tube rather long, curved, and wide : 

 tentacles conical, short, and flattened, bordered outside by a 

 narrow line of purple, widely diverging ; tips sometimes dark 

 purple : eyes proportionally small, on bulbs or offsets at the 

 outer base of the tentacles, where the latter are much swol- 

 len : foot huge, oblong, double-edged, and rounded in front, 

 with small angular corners, very broad at the sides, and 

 rounded or bluntly pointed behind : verge large : odontophore 

 having an oblong rhachis, armed with five small equal cusps 

 or points which occupy the entire base ; pleurae large, the 

 base very long and sloping, middle deeply and widely exca- 

 vated, outer fang hooked, inner fang smaller and tooth-like. 



SHELL shaped like a Voluta (the body-whorl and mouth 

 being disproportionately large, compared with the spire, w^hich 

 is abruptly attenuated) ; it is of a porcellanous texture, not 



* Norwegian. 



