WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 445 



Pf-ver/us. Beak dilated and repand : fpire turned contrary and (lightly 

 crowned. 

 Lister tab, 907, 908? Gualt. teft. tab. 30. B 

 Argen<ville conch, tab* 15. F. Ellis Cor all. tab* 33. B, 

 Muf. Gottnvald. tab, $2, fig. 2 1 9. a, b. 

 Bailer op.fubcef. tab. 6-fg. 1. B. 

 Cbemn. conch. 9. tab % 107. fig. 906, 907. 

 Born Muf Caf Vind. tell. tab. \\. fig. 8, 9. 

 2. Chemn. conch. 9. tab, ,107. Jig. 904, 905. 



Inhabits the American Ocean: exceedingly rare. 

 Spines fometimes pointed, fometimes more obtufe. 



*Anti$uns* Beak dilated : fhell oblong with 8 round whorls, the firft 

 ventricofe. 

 Lister conch, tab. 962. Jig. 15. An, angl. t. 3. f. 1—3. 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. 3. tab. 1 iS.fg. 1—3. 

 Bonan, recr. 3-fg-, 190, Muf Kirch. $.f. 192. 



&&* Muf. 3. ta£. 39 /£. 75. /. 83. /; 3-6. t. 93./. 3, 



Martini conch. 4 ta£. 138. /?£. 1 292- 1294. 1 296. 

 Hermann Naturf. 16, ta£. 7 -fi-7' 



2. Sebd muf. 3. tab. %$. fg. 7 ? 



3. Martin {Mannigf. 4. /. 2./. 14? 



Inhabits European and frozen Seas : 4—6 inches long. 



Shell dark, dirty yellow, very finely ftriate tranfverfely or longi- 

 tudinally plaited : whorls of the fpire feparated by a groove, 

 the middle-one fometimes crowned with tubercles, rarely turned 

 contrary. 



*Defpe&us. Beak dilated: fhell oblong ftriate and fomewhat rugged; 

 whorls 8, with 2 elevated lines. 

 Donovan's Britijh fells, tab* 31. It. Wgoth. t. 5./. 8* 

 Pennant. Brit. Zool. iv. tab. J%-fg* 98. 

 Da Cofa Brit, conch, tab. 6. fig. 4. 

 Lifter an. Ang. tab. "$>fg* l« 

 \ Martini conch. 4. tab. 138./^, 1295. 



2. Lifier conch. I0$j.f 1 ? 



3. Martyn uni<verf. conch, i.f 5. Fa<oann. Catal. t. A.f 946. 

 Chemn. conch. 10. tab. 163. _/%. r 5S^» 



Inhabits European Seas: about 5 inches long. 



Shell coarfe white, witft a gloffy orange-yellow aperture; the 



fjh is fometimes eaten, but is oftener ufed as bait for Cod an«i 



Ray fifli. 



Fcrnicatu^ Beak dilated: {hell ovate-oblong, the whorls ventricofe lon- 

 gitudinally ftriate and a little angular. 



Inhabits Greenland Seas. O. Fabr.fn. Gr&nl. 399. 



Shell above 3 inches long, fubdiaphanous fmoothifh and yellow, 

 within white and glabrous: whorls 7, with wide tranfverfe 

 ilrise. 



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