WORMS. TESTACEA. 77. Strombus. 4*7 



Inhabits the Red Sea: refembles a Murex in having the beak ra- 

 ther ftraight, but approaches nearer to the Genus Strombus in 

 being fmooth and having the lip toothed: jhell brown,- tranf- 

 Y,eriely ftriate at the bafe, the pillar white, beak black out- 

 wardly. 



*Pes VeU» Lip witn 4 pale palmate angular claws: mouth fmooth* 

 cani. Carvo rant's Foot, 



Donovan's Brit. Shells, tab. 4. Pennant tab. 75, /, 94. 

 Da Colia Brit Lonchol. tab. 7. jig. f. 

 Lifter, tab. 865, 866. fig 21, tab % lO^, fig. 3. 

 Bonanrecr. and Muf kirch. 3. fig. 85. 87. 

 Gualt. teji. tab. 53. A — C. Arg. conch. tab/^M M* 

 Klein oftr. tab. 2, fig. 41 , 42. hejjer tefi. f. cd* 

 Sebamuj 3. tab. 62, f. 17. Murray te ft. tab* I, fig, lii 

 Muf. Gottivald. tab % 18, tig* 1 30, a/ b. 

 Mull. Z00L Dan. 3. tab. Bfifig. i> 2. 

 Martini conch. 3, **£. 8$. fig. 848 — 850. 

 Inhabits Eurbpean and American Seas : 2 inches long. 

 S/W/ pointed, whitifh cinereous or reddifh, within white, frriobtfrj 

 polifh'ed : whorls tubercnlate. 



Gbiragra* Lip with 6 curved claws and recurved beak. 

 Lifter, tab, 870. Rumpf. muf. tab. £5, A 

 Gualt tefi. tab. 35, B. Loch'n. muf. BesL t. 2t 9 f. 6. 

 Lefifer teft.fi. 81. Muf. Gottnu. t. 20,/. 141, b, 

 Sebamufi 3* tab. Si f fig. I, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12. 

 ATwrr delic. tab. B. n,/. I. Vergn. t. t. 2*j t fi I* 

 Martini tench) tab. $6. fig. 853-, 854. •/*£. 87,/*. 856, 85^. 



2. The younger fhell. Li/ler, tab.Sjs, 883, 



Bonan recr. 3. f. 314, 315. Muf. Kirch. 3./*, 317* 



Rumpf. muf tab. 55, B, C. tab. $J,f. 11 



Gualt t teit. tab 26, B. ta£. 35, A. 



Sda muf. 3. *o& 62, fig* 34. /. 73,/. 29; /, 83,/. 1, 2. 



^ifz</*. Gottivald. tab. zi,fg t 144, B. 



Martini conch: 3. /ig$; &5-fiig' 85 1 , 852. *. 92,/*. 895.^-901. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean : very rare and valuable. 



Shell large, brown varied with white, the back t'uberculate : lips 

 ftriate : claws 6 including the beak, very long, the 2 hind- 

 ones divergent and bent outwards. 



mofpim* Lip wv th ^ knotty claws,- the hinder one very long. 

 Lister, tab. 86 7. Rumpf. Muj. tab. 36, K. 

 Argen*v. conch, tab.i^. B. Patent, abb. t. 3,/. 28." 

 i?G/ra» recr. I* fig. 312, 313. Afz//". kirch, %.f. 3 1 6. 

 G»*// rj$ ^. 36, C. Sebamuf. 3. £ 82,/. II, 15. 5 

 JVfff/, Goth-wold. tab. 21. fi 144, a. .KWr Vergn. 2. r, 3,/*.- r. 

 Murray tefi. t* 1, f 29. M?rt. conchJt, 88. /„ 860. 



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