CONCHOLOGY, 



PLATE XVI. 



MUREX SCORPIO 

 var Minor 

 LEAST STAG'S HORN MUREX. 



Univalve. » 



generic character. 



Shell spiral, rough with membranaceous sutures : aperture oval, 

 ending in an entire straight, or slightly ascending canal. 



^ Sutures expanding into crisped Jbliations : beak abbreviated. 

 Purpura GmeL 



SPECIFIC character 



and 

 synonyms. 



Shell with four rows of foliations: spire capitate : beak truncated , 



M 



