WORMS. TESTACEA. 78. Murex. 



453 



Undatus, Shell folid ventricofe with waved angles and very finely 

 ftriate tranfverfely : fpire mucronate, the whorls knotty 

 at the bafe: lip denticulate. 

 Martini conch. 4. tab. 145./%. 1 34 3- 

 Inhabits'/W/a: 8f inches long, and ponderous. 

 Shell white, with 14 whorls and flightly incurved beak. 



Longijimus Shell thin ftriate, with an obtufe knotty fpire and long very 

 flraight beak. 

 Martini conch. 4. tab. ^\^'fig, 1 344* 

 Inhabits India : 9 inches long. Shell white, with 10 whorls. 



Lancea. 



Augustus, 



tiie margin: pillar- 2 



Shell narrowed: whorls of the fpire tranfverfely iibbed and 

 longitudinally crenaie: aperture ovate, ribbed with 

 white within and toothed at 

 plaited. 



Inhabits Amboina. Mart: ni conch. 4. tab. 1 45. fig, 1347. 

 Shell exceedingly thin and narrow, the younger ones reddifh, the 

 adult ones white, interstices of the ribs and aperture violet: 

 jfire with 11 or 12 whoris. 



Shell narrowed: firft whorl of the fpire longitudinally 

 p'aited and tranfveifely ribbed, the others fmooth and 

 round ; beak traniveilely ribbed. 

 Inhabits- Vaknt abb, tab, l 'fig. 6. refembles the laft. 



Verficolor, Shell fubcylindrical with an obtufe fpire, the whorls round 

 and ftriate, the lower-ones moftiy glabrous. 



Knew Vergn. 3. tab, \j\,fig. 1. 



Martini conch. 4 tab. ij^S.fig. 1 348^ 



Inhabits India: J/iell brown vaj legated, rarely fnowy; with 9 

 whorls. 



Verrucsfus. Shell umbilicate and furrounded with belts, the middle ones 

 more railed : whorls crowned with tubercles which 

 are fpotted with brown: beak inflecled. 

 Martini conch. 4. tab. 146. jig. 1349. 135& 



2. Martini conch. 4. t, 14.4./. I 341. 



3. Bonan recr, and Muf. kirch. 3. Jig. 88. 



4. Muf. Gottivald. t, 43. /» 221. e. 

 Innabits the Red Sea, 



Striatulus* Shell thin tranfverfely ftriate : foire mucronate, the whorls 

 - s round : beak long: aperture ovate: lip crenulate. 



Muf. Gottivald. tab. 34. Jig. 221. c, d. 



Martini conch. 4. t. I 46, f. I 35 I, I 352. 



Inhabits Shell 4 inches long, covered with a brown fkin. 



Pardalis* 



