WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 



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Scolopaceus. Shell brown, whorls furrounded with grooves and with tu* 

 bercles above, tip of the tubercles and aperture white. 



Inhabits Knorr Vergn. % tab. 26. fig. 4. 



2. Knorr Vergn. 3. tab. 26. fig. 5 ? 



Van 2) more elongated and dirty yellow, with an obfolete 

 band on the whorls, the tubercles more globular. 



Litteratus. Shell ventricofe tapering fpotted with black : pillar with a 

 llngle plait : beak lhort. 



Inhabits Born Muf. C<<ef. Vind ted. tab. 11. Jig. 14, 15, 



Shell faowy, with a wide aperture : fpire with 8 prickly whorls* 



rigonus. Shell fubtriangular cancellate : fpire with inflated contigu- 

 ous whorls, the firft with a large diftinct tubercle. 

 Inhabits Senegal. Adam feneg. 1. tab. 8. fig. 14. 

 Shell 2 inches long : fpire with, 7 whorls. 



Semilunaris Shell longitudinally ribbed and very finely ftriate tranfverfely j 

 fpire with flattiih diflant whorls with rows of tubercles: 

 aperture femilunar. 

 Inhabits Senegal. Adam, feneg. 1. tab. 8. jig, 1 5. 

 Shell an inch long, the whorls with a fingle row of tubercles 

 the fec©nd with a double or triple row, firft with 6 or 7 rows. 



Cofiatus. 



Sulcata*. 



Shell with annular ftriae and inflated round whorls, each of 

 ' them with 9 rounded parallel fpinous ribs. 

 Inhabits Senegal. Adam feneg. l.tab, 8. fig. 19. 

 Shell about z\ inches long. 



Shell rounded, with annular grooves: aperture oval: firft 

 whorl of the fpire turgid. 

 Inhabits Senegal. Adam feneg, \. tab. q.fg. 25. 

 Shell 1 J inch iong, with 9 contiguous whorls, which are fometimes 

 inflated, fometimes flattifti. 



Fufiformis. Shell elongated, with numerous rows of very minute crow- 

 ded tubercles. 

 Inhabits Senegal. Adam feneg. 1. tab. 9. fig. 23. 



Shell 6 lines long, with about 8 whorls, the rirft with 12 ic 



rows of tubercles, the fecond with 5, 



Writemsi Shell ventricofe oblong fmooth, with rounded whorls toothed 

 aperture- and fhort beak. 

 Lidertab. 959. Rumpf. Muf. tab. 28, B. and 1. 

 Patent, abh. tab S.fg. 66, 6j. Gualt. test. tab. 48, A. 

 Bman recr* and Muf kirch. yfig. 1 8$. 



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