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reference, I rather believe the shell to be the type of a new Genus, as suggested by 

 Mr. Charlesworth, who figured and described it in the 'Mag. Nat. Hist.,' vol. i, p. 219, 

 fig. 23 ; as it has asmall apex, and a deposit of calcareous matter on the upper part 

 of the left lip. 1 



Murex Reedii, S. Wood. 2nd Sup., Tab. I, fig. 9 a, b. 



Murex Reedii, S. Wood. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxiii, p. 120, 1877. 



Spec. Char. Testa fusiformi, crassa ; spird elevata ; apice acuta, anfractibus septenis 

 subangulatis ; varicibus tenuibus, sublamellosis, ultimo anfractu maximo ; aperturd ovatd, 

 labro intiis incrassato dentato ; columella incurvata. 



Length, 1-fths inch. 

 Breadth, f ths inch. 



Locality. Cor. Crag ? Boyton. 



A specimen is among the shells sent to me by Dr. Reed, and from the perfection in 

 which it was found, I am enabled to make a fair comparison of it with other shells of 

 this genus in similar condition. It has prominent varices, which are not much foliated. 

 It somewhat resembles M. tripartita, but is more elongated, and differs from it in not 

 having spiral striae like that shell, or like the long known Crag shell M. tortuosus, J. 

 Sow., which is covered with large and prominent spiral stria? or ridges. 



The artist's representation (figs. 9 a, b, of Tab. 1) might raise the idea that our present 

 shell was obscurely striated, but I can detect no striation, though there are some faint trans- 

 verse marks between one pair of varices, and as the shell is in such a fresh and unworn 

 state it may be safely said that it never possessed striations. I have endeavoured by sending 

 accurate drawings of the shell to Dr. Nyst, and several other Belgian conchologists, to 

 ascertain whether anything like it was known from the Belgian beds ; but they all assure 

 me that they know of nothing like it. The canal and mouth are slightly oblique (a 

 feature which the artist has failed in the engraving to catch), and there are six varices on 



1 I may mention here that a dead and bleached specimen of Conus tulipa was once showed to me, and 

 said to have been found in the Cor. Crag at Ramsholt ; and I have also seen a very pretty (fabricated) 

 shell as a Red Crag fossil from Walton-on-the-Naze. This was a thick specimen of Bite, Balei, beauti- 

 fully ornamented with elevated ridges in a Harpa-like fashion, and executed in a very skilful manner, but 

 the artist had left unobliterated a few small marks of his graving tool. These specimens are probably 

 still in existence, and I mention them here like that of Fusus antiquns from Orford by way only of 

 caution. 



