FUSUS.—Puate I. 
Tur VERY LONG Fusus. Shell elongately. fusiform, spire 
acuminately turreted, whorls spirally grooved and 
sharply ridged throughout, slanting round the upper 
part, nodose in the middle ; snowy-white within and 
without. 
Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes’ edit.) vol. ix. p. 443. 
Murex longissimus and candidus, Gmelin. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
This is the largest of the spindle-shaped species and 
may be known in all stages by its straight elongated 
growth; it has never any indication of colour, being pure 
white within and without. 
Species 3. (Mus. Hanley.) 
Fusus ocELLirerus. Fus. testd subabbreviato-fusiformi, 
tenuiculd, ventricosd, spire suturis profundis, anfrac- 
tibus superneé concavo-declivibus, undique spiraliter sul- 
catis et striatis, liris intermediis latiusculis, verrucosis ; 
albidd, aurantio-fusco pallidé tinctd et variegatd, lira- 
yum verrucis conspicue aurantio-fuscrs. 
THE EYED Fusvs. Shell somewhat fusiform, rather thin, 
ventricose, sutures of the spire deep, whorls concavely 
slanting round the upper part, spirally grooved and 
striated throughout, intermediate ridges rather broad, 
warty; whitish, palely stained and variegated with 
orange-brown, warts of the ridges conspicuously 
orange-brown. 
Bory, Encyclopédie Méthodique, pl. 429. f. 7. 
Fusus verruculatus, Lamarck. 
Hab, P 
Presuming M. Bory to be the author responsible for the 
names attached to the figures of shells in the Encyclopédie 
Méthodique, I adopt the above as being anterior to that of 
Lamarck. The Fusus ocelliferus is a very distinct species 
but not one of common occurrence; it is of rather light 
swollen growth, encircled throughout by broad obtuse 
rather distant ridges of which the two central ones are 
marked with tumid nodules or warts most conspicuously 
developed on the middle whorls. 
