EXOTIC CONCHOLOGY. 



drawn his characters from some of tlie many distorted figures that had appeared. 

 Martini's drawing approaches the nearest to our own, Rumphius and Kircher 

 representing it in a more advanced state of growth. 



Family-STROMBID/E. 



Outer lip dilated, thickened internally, or detached from the preceding -whorl by a sinus : 



operculum small. 

 Sub-Famili/ — Strombin^. Outer Up considerably dilated, but never toothed ; spire 



rarely longer than the aperture, with a sinus near the base. 

 Genus — Pterocera. Spire short ; outer lip considerably dilated, ascending and 



attached to the spire, in general divided into linear processes ; basal lobe inflexed, 



toothed : channel long. 



P. AURANTIA. ORANGE-MOUTHED SCORPION. 



Plate IX. 



Testa ovata, tuberculato-gibbosa, transversim rugosa, albo et luteo nebulosa ; labio exte- 

 riore 6 dactyhs gracilibus, peracutis. inequalibus, (quorum tres vel quatuor laterales 

 sunt falcati) armato : margine dentato ; labio interiore crasso ; Cauda, prselonga, 

 curva, gracillima : fauce aurantia, Itevissima. 



Lamarc Aux. sans V. 7- p. 198. no. 6. Chemnitz, vol. 10. tab. 158. fig. 1508-9. 

 Knorr. Vergn. vol. 5. tab. 4. fig. 3. Dilwyn Strombus Lambis, var. B. p. 658. 

 Crouch's Lamarc, tab. 18. fig. 4. 



Ovate, gibbous, and girded with wrinkled furrows and ranges of nodosities 

 clouded with white and brownish clay-colour ; the outer lip armed with six unequal, 

 very acute and slender digitations, of which three or four of the lateral ones are 

 falcated ; margin toothed ; the interior lip thickened : tail smooth, very long, 

 slender and curved : aperture smooth, orange red. Length four inches and a half. 

 The form and direction of the claws, and the great thickness of the lower portion 

 of the inner lip, strongly characterise the shell. The mouth is always smooth, and 

 of a rich orange colour. It is not uncommon, and, according to Lamarc, comes to 

 us from the East Indies. 



P. LACINIATA. THE CRESTED STROMB. 



Plate XLVI. 



Test& ovato-oblouga, tuberculifera, albo et luteo varia, ultimi anfracttls tuberculo, aliis 

 multo majore : spii-a esserta, nodosa, acuta : labro dilatato, latere rephcato, 

 superne crenis profundis cristatim inciso ; fauce rosea. 



Stro}HbKs Laciniahis, Dilw. p. 663. no. 15. 



Strombus Cristatus, Lam. Ans. sans V. /. p. 202. no. 7. Seba, 3. tab. 62. fig. 3. Fav. 

 22. A 2. Chem. 10. tab. 158. f. 1506, 7. Wood's Strombus, no. 15. 



