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for the suppression of this species but, if a similar variability in 

 the other forms be assumed, it would almost reduce the oriental 

 Fusie to a single species. I do not think that science will be 

 advanced by a radical reduction of these species at present : on 

 the other hand, whilst perplexus has no real claims to recognition 

 as a species, yet to suppress it would be to refer its various forms 

 to several different species, although they are very evidently 

 mere modifications of growth of a single species. Under these 

 circumstances I let it stand, F. perplexus has not been figured, 

 but Mr. E. Smith, of the British Museum, finds no difference 

 between specimens of it and the figures of Fusus inconstant 

 Lischke, a species published four years later. 



Length, 3 to 5 inches. 



flab Japan. 

 F. MULTICARINATUS, Lam. PI. 33. fig. 109. 



Yellowish white. Length, 4*5 to 5 inches. 



Red Sea. 



The species figured by Reeve under this name is not angulate 

 and much resembles F. turricula ; it has been separated from 

 multicarinatus by Philippi and Tapparone-Canefri and is called 

 F. Reeveanus by the former ; it is a synonym of Fusus spectrum, 

 Adams and Reeve. 



F. AUSTRALIS, Quoy. PI. 34, figs. 113-119. 



Brownish red, or yellowish with chestnut spots or narrow 

 bands ; periphery snbcarinate but shoulder scarcely defined, 

 rounded ; upon the bod3 7 -whorl the revolving stria? arc frequently 

 more prominent than the ribs, breaking up the latter into tuber- 

 cles at their crossing. Spire and canal proportionally shorter 

 than in the preceding species. Length, 3' 75 inches. 



Red Sea, Japan, Australia. 



M. Tapparone-Canefri gives to this species the name of F. 

 tuberculatus, Chemn., which cannot stand, as the descriptive 

 phrase is " F. tuberculatus seu muricatus." He also refers to 

 F. verrucosus, Wood (as of Gmelin), but the identification is 

 doubtful. F. marmoratus (figs. 114, 115), Phil., F. aureus, 

 Reeve (figs. 116, 117), and F. crebriliratus, Reeve (fig. 118), 

 may be confidently placed in the S3 T nonymy of the species. F. 

 caudatus, Quoy (fig. 119), is the young shell. 



