PYRULA.—Piate I. 
THE DARK PyruLa. Shell somewhat fusiform, spirally ; Had. Island of Trinidad, West Indies, (on mud banks) . 
grooved and striated, finely ridged towards the apex, J. Cuming. 
whorls concavely depressed round the upper part, The generic character of this species appears to be so 
sometimes angulated and conspicuously compressly nearly identical with the former, that I venture to include 
tubercled, sometimes rounded and smooth or obso- | i+ under the head of Pyrula. Tt is subject to the same 
letely noduled; blackish-chesnut encircled with one | yayiation of growth as illustrated in the accompanying 
or more yellowish-white bands. representations of P. pugilina, the tubercled variety, here 
Murex morio, Linneus, Syst. Nat. (12th. edit.) p. 1221, figured, having been erroneously distinguished by Lamarck 
Fusi morio and coronatus, Lamarck. as a new species with the name Fusus coronatus. 
