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MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS. 
FUSUS COLUMBARIUS. 
Murex columbarius. Chemn. Conch, f. 1637-38. 
Inhab. Pacific Ocean. 
The young of this species has three very obscure plaits on the pillar that are quite obliterated in the 
adult state. It is one of those species which appear to unite the Fusi with the Turbinellce. 
FUSUS RAPHANOIDES. 
Purpura fusiformis. Blainv. Ann. Mus. t. 11 ,f. 7. 
Shell ovate, fusiform, ventricose, white (covered with a brown periostracum) ; spire conical, as long 
as the mouth ; whorls convex, transversely plaited, with a sub-posterior keel of compressed tubercles, 
and distant spiral ridges, those in the canal larger and further apart. Mouth ovate ; canal slightly twisted ; 
axis perforated ; outer lip rather veined. Length 2 inches. 
Inhab. 
FUSUS SULCATUS. 
Shell ovate, fusiform, ventricose, solid, white (covered with a thin brown periostracum), longitudinally 
plaited, with close small rounded, alternately smaller, spiral ridges ; the spire conical, as long as the mouth ; 
whorls rounded. Mouth ovate; outer lip crenulated; throat deeply grooved ; inner lip smooth; front of 
pillar with three very obscure oblique plaits ; canal short, straight, wide, open, slightly perforated. Axis 
1 inch. 
Inhab. 
FUSUS GRANDIS. 
Shell fusiform, ventricose, solid, white, (covered with a brown periostracum ?) with close alternately 
broad and narrow low spiral ridges ; spire nearly as long as the mouth ; whorls rounded, sub-angular, and 
with a series of rounded tubercles behind ; outer lip crenulated, internally thickened and grooved ; inner lip 
smooth; canal rather short, slightly twisted, open. Axis 5 inches. 
Inhab. 
The lower whorls are rather concave behind the tubercles, and the inner part of the throat is smooth. 
FUSUS CAN ALICU LATUS. 
Shell ovate, fusiform, solid, pale brown, varied and spotted with dark brown, closely and unequally 
spirally grooved ; spire conical, two-thirds the length of the mouth ; whorls convex, concave, shelved, and 
produced into a raised edge over the suture behind, upper one transversely plaited. Mouth very yellow ; 
throat smooth ; outer lip crenulated, thin ; inner lip rather callous ; concave, with four or five close oblique 
plaits in front ; canal short, twisted, open. Axis inches. 
Inhab. China. 
FUSUS VlRGA. 
Shell fusiform, elongate, solid, white, apex yellowish ; spire acute, two-thirds the length of the mouth ; 
whorls rounded, convex, regularly and strongly longitudinally plaited, with alternate broad, sharp edged 
and very fine spiral ribs ; suture distinct. Mouth ovate ; throat grooved ; outer lip crenulated ; canal 
elongated, tapering, transversely stiiated, smooth in front. Length 5 inches. 
Inhab. China; not uncommon. 
Compare with Fusus laticostatus, Desh., but the ribs are not broad and depressed. The nucleus of this 
species, as in most of the genus, is quite smooth, sub-cylindrical, blunt, of one whorl and a half; the perios- 
tracum thin, pale brown, hairy. 
