440 WORMS. TESTACEA. 7 8. Murex. 



Inhabits Guinea India and the iflands of the Indian Ocean. 



Shell tranfverfely flriate on the back, and armed with rows 01 



obtufe fpincs or tubercles varying in numbers : whorls of the 



fpire diftant, 



* 



Stntuojia. Shell a little tapering, longitudinally ribbed and tranfverfely 



cancellate : aperture itriate. 

 Bonan, recr. and Muf. kirch. l-fil* 35* 

 Rumpf. muf. tab. 29. N, Gualt. tefi, tab. 51. G. 

 Argenu. conch . tab. 9. O Seba muf. 3. /. 49. £45 — 48, 

 Knorr Vergn. 3. tab. 24 jig. 4, 5. 

 Martini conch. 4. /. 155./! 1466, 1467 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean: about 2 inches long. 

 S^7/yellowifh with a brown band on each of the whorls, the ribs 



prickly: aperture oblong: pillar with a fingle plait: fpire 



pointed, with diitant whorls. 



Mibngera, g^jj obovate glaucous, with a fubfpinous whorl rather 

 prominent fpire and fmooth aperture. 

 Lister tab. 904. Rump/, muf, tab. 24. 2, 3. 6. 

 Bonan. recr. $>jig. 1 86. 293, Muf kirch. f. 1 85. 296. 

 Gualt. tefi. tab. 26. F. tab 31. F. 



Argent', conch, tab. 15. H. Seba muf. 3. r. 72. f, 1—9* 

 Muf. Gottivald. tab. 1 1 . fig. 7 1 , 72, 73. a, b. 

 AWr Vergn. 1. /. 17./*. and 2. t.io.f' I. 

 Regenf. conch. 1. /. 5. /'. 49. /. lO.y, 36, 

 Martini covch. 2. t. 39, 40.^ 389—397. 



2. i£»crr Vergn. 3. /*£. 7.7%. 3. and 5. /. 4 /*. 2. 



3. Rumpf. muf. tab. 2%, D. tab. 24. f. 4. 



&£« A/z./. 3. /. 49. /*. 80—82. t. $2. f. 19,20. /. 60./, 9, 19, 

 Af«/I Gotliv.tab. 11. fig. 74—78. /. 27./. 187. a. 

 Martin, conch. 2. f*£. \ojfig, 398-402. 



4. Chemn* conch. 10. /. 164 f. 1568, 



Inhabits India zx\<i America t in great varieties: 5I inches long. 

 ££/»// generaly brown barred with white; aperture oval large; 



fpire with knotty whorls, rarely fmooth, the firil very large and 



turgid and moftly furroudcd wiih fpines. 



Ccnful, Shell thick ventricofe white tranfverfely grooved arid knotty: 

 aperture repand ovate : lip fmuous, plaited inwardly 

 , and denticulate. 



Inhabits India. Chemn. conch. 10. tab. 160. fig. 15 16, 1517. 



Lima. Shell brown fubovate and flight! v beaked, with crowded 



nodulous paler belts. 

 Inhabits Georges Bay* Martyn itniv. Conch* 2. tab. 46. 



E. With 



