FUSUS. 
Puarte X. 
Species 39. (Fig. a and 4, Mus. Taylor. 
Fig. ce, Mus. Cuming.) 
Fusus pespectus. us. testd ovato-turritd, subfusiformi, 
ventricosd, basi abbreviatd ; anfractibus spiraliter stri- 
atis et carinatis, superné angulato declivibus, interdum 
peculiariter plicatis, carind ad angulum subprominente, 
tuberculato-nodosd, ceteris plus minusve obscuris ; spa- 
diceo-fusca. 
THE DESPISED Fusus. Shell ovately turreted, somewhat 
fusiform, ventricose, shortened at the base; whorls 
spirally striated and keeled, angularly slanting round 
the upper part, sometimes peculiarly plicated, keel at 
the angle rather prominent, tubercularly nodose, the 
rest more or less obscure ; fawn-brown. 
Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes’ edit.) vol. ix. p. 448. 
Murex despectus, Linnzus. 
Tritonium despectum, Muller. 
Testa junior, Murex carinatus, Pennant. 
Fusus carinatus, Lamarck. 
Hab. Northern Seas, Spitzbergen, &c. 
There is little doubt but the shells figured by Pennant 
in his British Zoology vol. iv. Pl. 77, and Frontispiece, 
under the name of Murew carinatus are different states of 
the Linnean Murea despectus, in which the spire is un- 
usually produced and keeled; and M. Kiener’s illustration 
of Lamarck’s Fusws carinatus is evidently the same species 
in an early stage of growth, similar to that represented in 
the accompanying plate at Fig. 39, a. 
Species 40. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Fusus tyratus. Fus. testd ovatd, ventricosd, anfractibus 
superné concavo-angulatis, costis rotundatis distantibus 
conspicue spiraliter cingulatis, superioribus majoribus 
interstitiis levibus, excavatis ; albido-spadiced, costis 
pellucido-fuscescentibus. 
THE HARP-STRUNG Fusus. Shell ovate, ventricose, whorls 
concavely angulated round the upper part, conspi- 
cuously spirally encircled with distant rounded ribs, 
of which the upper are the larger, and the interstices 
smooth and excavated; whitish fawn-colour, ribs 
light transparent-brown. 
Desuayes, Anim. sans vert. vol. ix. p. 478. 
Buecinum lyratum, Martyn. 
Murex lyratus, Gmelin. 
Murex glomus cereus, Chemnitz. 
Hab. King George’s Sound, New Holland; Chemnitz. 
I have never seen so large and perfect a specimen of this 
species as that represented by Chemnitz; it is one of ex- 
tremely rare occurrence, and the example here figured from 
Mr. Cuming’s collection is the most complete that I am 
aware of. 
December, 1847. 
