4°® 



ACCOUNT or 



Murex. 



1. antiquus. *) D. M. Aberlady Bay and Leith 

 despectus. 3 P. Roads, not uncommon. 



£. carinatus *. P. X). M. This exceeding rare shell (in 



a young state), I met with 

 on the coast near Dunbar: 

 even in this state, it anr 

 swers fully to the more 

 mature shell figured by 

 Donovan. Pennant's fi- 

 gure is so incorrect, that it 

 can scarcely be made out. 

 This shell ranks as one of 

 the rarest of the British 

 collection, and has been 

 esteemed an unique, till I 

 was fortunate enough to 

 meet with this other speci- 

 men. Pennant was the 

 first to figure and describe 

 it, from the Portland ca- 

 binet ; at the sale of 

 which, it was purchased 

 for the collection of the 

 celebrated Monsieur Cal- 

 lonne, and went to Paris. 

 On the emigration of that 

 gentleman to England, it 

 again came into the mar- 

 ket, and became the pro- 

 perty of Mr G. Humph - 

 arys, Leicester M quare, who 



* Tab. VXII. fig. 9. 



