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GEN. XXV. 



MUREX. 



Animal a LIMAX. 



SHELL, univalve, fpiral, moft times rough with mem- 

 branaceous folds, or knobs. 



Aperture ending in a ftrait, entire canal : fometimes 

 {lightly refle6ling. 



1. 



Desi'ectus. Murex defpeClus. Lin. Syft. p.l222.— GmeI. Syji. p.3547. 74. 



Lijler Conch, t. 913. f. 4.— Id. Angl p. 155. 



t. 3. f. 1. 

 Martini Conch, iv. t. 13S. f. 1292. & 1294. , 

 Br. Zool. No, 9S.— Turt. Lin. iv. p. 445. 

 Pnlt. Cat. Dorfet. p. 43. 

 Don. Br. Shells, i. t. 31. 

 Buccinum magnum. Da Cofia p. 120. t. 6. f. 4. 



M. with a thick, flrong, white fljcll, with feven or eight 

 ventricofe volutions, tapering to a fine point, faintly flri- 

 ated both tranfverfely and longitudinally : aperture fub- 

 oval; outer lip plain; inner lip replicated, Onooth; Colu- 

 mella 



