THE 
TULIP MUREX. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Animal allied to a Limax or Slug. 
Shell univalve, roughened by membranaceous 
sutures. 
Aperture endmg in a strait or subascending chan- 
nel. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER^ ^e. 
Mure^c with ventricose oblong smooth whitish 
shell, with longitudinal fulvous bands, 
rounded whirls, and double suture. 
The Tulip Murex. 
La Tulipe, 
Argenv, pi. 10. f. K. 
Die Aehatbirne. 
Martini A. f. 1280-1291. 
The Tulip Murex is an inhabitant of the Indian and 
American seas, and is frequently much larger than the 
specimen exhibited on the present plate. 
