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This fliell in the Boyfian cabinet under the tjrle of Miirex 

 adverfus being marked 48, v.ith reference to that figure in 

 Walker, wjll remove any doubts the author of the Bn'ti/b 

 Shells might have had with refpe6l to refering to tliat fliell : 

 and it could have been wiflied that the trivial name reticulatus 

 had been confined to the Stromhijormis reticulatus of Da Cos- 

 ta, our Murex reticulatus, a fpecies fo much more common 

 and better intitled to that denomination, but which is omitted 

 in the work alluded to. 



Previous to the publication of Tejlacea Britannica we were 

 favoured with a large fub-pellucid white variety from our 

 late eftimable friend Mr. Bryer, of IFeymouth, who found it 

 on the fliore near that place ; but as only that infiance had 

 then occurred, and as we knew it was not uncommonly 

 found of that colour amongfl: packages of TVeJl Indian fiiells 

 fent to this country, we could not venture it as really BritiJI} ; 

 thefe fcruples however are done away by its having been 

 more than once found by Mr. Laskey, in Scotland. 



TuBERCUtARJs. jMuiex Tubevcularis. Lin. Trans, viii.p. 150. 



j>. 270. 



An elegant fub-pellucid, white variety of this fliell was 



found near Dunbar, by Mr. Laskey. 



Independent of the contrary turn of the fpires from that 

 of M. adverfus, this fpecies has an invariable charadler. It 

 has three feries of tubercles of equal fize on each volution, 



whereas 



