448 WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 



Seba muf 3. tab, 81 , Knorr delic, tab. B. vi* jf, 1. 

 M«/! Gottwald. tab. 34, //£. 224. a. tab y 35,/^ 225. b. 

 /(Wr Vergn 2. ta£. 16. /^ 23. & 5 tab.$. f, 1. 

 Martini conch. \. tab. 134., 135. f. +2367 1277—1 283. 



2. Lister, tab. 960, M#/*. Gott^w. tab. 25. /*. 224. 

 Martini conch. 4. ta£. 136, 7%. 1284, 1285, 



3. iT/«« <?/?r. /*£. 7. fig. 127 ? 



Inhabits /»*#« and the South fe as : 2) the Mediterranean. 

 Shell 16 inches long, white and appearing as if covered with 



brown, yellow and black fcales: pillar white with tranfverfe 



black flrice : whorls of the fpire ieparated by a nodulous future, 



the fir ft marked with ftriate grooves. 

 This is the fpecies which is ufed by the natives of Nenv Zealand 



as a mufical fhell, and by the Africans and many nations of 



the Eajl as a military horn. 



Push, Shell ventricofe, oblong, fmooth : fpire ftriate, with round- 

 ed whorls: aperture fmooth: beak ftiort. 

 Lister , tab. 914* Adanf. Seneg. I, tab , 4, f, 3, 

 Rumpf, muf. tab. 49. E. Gualt. testy t. 52, I. 

 Martini conch. 4. tab. lq.J,fig. 1357- 

 In habits the Mediterranean and Africa: very rare. 

 5^// about 1 \ inch long, white with brown or fulvous fpots 

 often difpoled in rowa. 



Tulipa. Shell ventricofe, oblong, fmooth : whorls rounded, with a 

 double future: pillar with 2 plaits: beak dilated^ 

 ftriate. 



Lifter t taby 91 0, 91 J. Argenv. conch, tab. 10, K. 



Bonanrecr. 3. fig 187. Muf. Kirch. 3. fig. 186. 



Rumpf. muf. tab. 49, H. Gualt. tejl. tab, 46, A. 



fota /««/". 3. /<z£. 71. /$£. 23—31. 



M«/*- Gotttvald. tab. 29, fig. 220. a,b. 



.£/70rr Vergn. 5. ta£. l8,y7g\ 5. Cif 6. ta£, 29* f. i. 



Regenf. concb. I. tab. g, fig. 35. 



Martini conch. 4. /. 136, 137. /I 1286-I291, 

 2. G»#//. /«/. ta£. 45, yfg-. E ? 



Inhabits &?«/£ America. Shell generally fpotted and clouded, 

 within tranfverfely ftriate; whorls with rarely a fingle -future. 



Clathratusi Shell oblong, beaked and grooved, with longitudinal fub- 

 membranaceous plaits. 

 Lifer, tab. 926. fig. 19. Klein of r, tab, $> fi> 6j, 

 Inhabits Iceland: refembles Turbo clathratus, £mt has a fhort 



beak and numerous erect compreiTed plaits. 



. 



Naffa* Shell folid, black or pale brown with a white fubdiapha- 

 nous band: whorls knotty : pillar a little plaited 



Lister 



