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large form, in which only three varices appear on the lower 

 whorls, has been named Triton Cantrainei by Recluz (fig. 464), 

 and C. B. Adams has called it M. pauperculus, and A. Adams, 

 obelise us (tig. 467). 



M. EROSUS, Brod. PL 38, iigs. 468, 460. 



Dark colored in the pits between the ribs, or sometimes yellow- 

 ish with a brown band. Rather narrower than the preceding 



species. Length, -5 to 1 inch. 



Panama, under stones at low water. 



Sowerby figures this species in Conch. 111., f. 16 ; Reeve also 

 represents it by his f. 160. 



M. KIENERI, Reeve. PL 38, fig. 461. 

 Yellowish or fulvous. Length, *t5 inch. 



Habitat unknown. 



Xame proposed for M. exiguus, Kiener, preoccupied by Brod- 

 erip. It is a very doubtful Murex. 



M. GARRETTII, Pease. 



Oblong-oval, solid, scabrous, dusky brown ; whorls about six, 



somewhat angulated above, with spiral, transverse, reddish 



grooves and five varices ; aperture round-oval, outer lip crenu- 



lated ; canal short, subclosed, slightly oblique. Length, '4 inch. 



Shallow pools, rocky coasts of Hawaii, Sandwich Is. 



Apparently rare. Name proposed instead of M. exigu-us, Uar- 

 rett, preoccupied by Broderip. I have not seen the species. 



M. PEASEI, Tryon. PL 38, fig. 462. 



Acutely ovate, thick, solid ; spire slender, acute, short, less 

 than half the length of the shell ; last whorl with five prominent 

 varices, which are squamose ; interstices smooth ; aperture oval, 

 outer lip broadly varicose ; canal very short, recurved, nearly 

 closed. White, interstices flesh color, with a median brown band. 

 Length, *6 inch. 



La Paz, L. California. 



The above is the description of Murex foveolatus, Pease. I 



copy his figure, which does not agree at all with a specimen sent 



to me by him. The latter is too like M. erosus, Brod. Pease 



states that all the specimens except the one figured were covered 



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