

Triacan- 

 thus. 



WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 43 1 



/...JChemn. conch. 10, tab.^oi.fig. 1540, 1 541. 

 Inhabits the Eaftern coafts of Africa. 

 Margin of the //'/> membranaceous : j^/rf with 7 diflinft whorls. 



Shell turgid, knotty, tianfverfely ftriate, with a triple row 

 of fpines. 



Walch ''etrefi 2. tab. C i. Hg. 5. 



Found in a foffile ftate: jW/ ihaped like a fig, with 5 or 6 hori- 

 zontal belts croffing the ftriae: beak above an inch long : 3 

 outmoft whorls knotty and a little prominent. 



Melanama- Shell tranfverfely ftriate, with 8 rows of hollow black 



thos, fpines : fpire a little knotty and prickly : beak fubulate. 



Inhabits -Martini conch. 3. tab, 108, fig. 1015. 



Radix. Shell white, with numerous rows of frondofe black undu- 

 late fpines. 

 Inhabits Argenv. Zoom. tab. 1 1, K. Extremely rare. 



Candidus. Shell white with rows of fpines and very Ihort beak. 

 Inhabits— ———Argenv. conch, tab. 16. G. 

 Shell 2 inches long ; fome of thejpines black.' 



Fafciatus. Shell inflated, with rows of fpines, white barred with 

 brown: fpire with 4 diflinctt turgid whorls. 

 Inhabitc Knorr Vergn. 6. tab. 40. fig. 6. 



-Ramofus, 



Foliat 



us. 



B. Sutures expanding into crifped foliations: beak abbrevi- 

 ated. Purpura. 



Shell with a triple row of foliations and contiguous fpire :. 

 beak truncate. 

 Rumpf. muf. tab. 26. A, C. Lister, tab. 946. 

 Argenv. conch, tab. 16. C,E, H. Zoom. t. 4, D, 

 Column, aq. tab. 60. Klein ofir. tab, 4, Jig. 82. 

 Bonan recr. ^•fig. 275, 276. Muf. Kirch. 3. f.zSo, 281, 

 Gualt. ted. tab. 37, D, G, H, I, L. 

 Seba Muf. 3. tab. S z >fi- Zl * ta &- 77>f* I ~4« 7" 1 2. 

 Muf.Gottnv. tab. $y f fg 255. a. 256, b. tab. 38,/". 257, a. 

 Knorr Vergn. I. tab. 25, f. 1, 2. /, 26, f. i — 3. /. g,f. 3. 

 Martini conch. 3. tab. 105, ftg. 990, 991. 993,994. 

 Inhabits Afia> America, Perfia and the Red Sea. 

 Shell tranfverfely ftriate, varying very much in fhape, colour and 

 appearance of the foliations. 



Shell with a triple row of foliations : aperture i-toothed. 



Martyn 



