PYRULA.—Prate III. 
JHE REVERSED PyruLa. Shell sinistral, pyriform, ven- 
tricose, canal elongated, whorls encircled with slightly 
waved rather distant strie, angulated round the upper 
part, coronated at the angle with tubercles, a fold 
like a flattened varix extendmg from each tubercle 
down to the base ; yellowish-white or blueish, longitu- 
dinally banded and clouded with brown, interior white. 
Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. vol. ix. p. 506. 
Murex perversus, Linneeus. 
An eadem distorta? Pyrula candelabrum, Lamarck. 
Hab. Gulf of Mexico. 
I have every reason to think that the P. candelabrum of 
Lamarck, is merely a mis-shapen growth of the species 
under consideration, if not of the P. arauna. 
