Ill 



Inhabits the fhores of J^Tuns iflandj oppofitc jfona, or T» 

 Columh-kil : not common. 



MUREX. 



llurex antiqiius. Mull. Zool. Dan. Hi. t. 11^.- ^espectusw 



Don. Br. Shells, i. t. 31. -p. 256. 



Lin. Trans, viii. p. 145. 

 Fuli. Hutch. Dorset, t. 17. t 4- 



In the termination of the Britijh fielh we are defired ta 

 fubftitute the name olantiquus for that oi deJpeSius, given to 

 the figure in Tah. 3 1 , the author having in Vol. 5, Tab. 1 80, 

 figured a fliell which he confiders as the true Linncean def- 

 peSlus, being poITefled of two elevated fpiral lines. 



That LiNNiEUs himfelf having made fome confufionby 

 quoting- figures for his defpe&us which do not accord with 

 " anfradlibus odio lineis duabus elevatis" may have led many 

 writers to affix his fynonyma to owrdefpeSlus, is pretty obvious: 

 we muft however admit that " anJraSiibiis o5io tereiibus," tJie 

 chara(5terof his antiquus, would better anfwer to our dejpedus. 



In Iter. WeJigothicuin,'Lint^K.vs feems to have defined by 

 fig. 8, Tab. 5, what Mr. Donovan confiders as the true def- 

 pedluSy although the former refers to Lister's Angl. Tab, 

 S,fig» I, which evidently anfwers better to his fl;a^/^i«/^. 



