DESCRIPTION. 
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distinct pale brown bands, and longitudinal waved 
streaks, somewhat tessellated with obsolete lines 
and brown dots at the points of section ; lengthened 
spots on the outer lip dark brown. 
Inhabits the American, Indian, and Mediter- 
ranean Seas. 
The Linnaean species Erinaceus and Vibex are 
so obviously the same, and pass so imperceptibly 
from the plaited and crowned to the even surface, 
that the characters of both have been here united 
under the title Vibex, as most appropriate. The 
figured specimen is an exact link between them, 
the upper whorls and great part of the inferior one 
being perfectly smooth, the plaits and papillae ex- 
tending but a very little distance from the outer 
lip. In plate XXIV. the young shell is given, 
which by its marking is an Erinaceus; by its 
form, a Vibex. The peculiar black spot at the 
extremity of the Cauda is a sufficient proof of 
their identity. 
Fig. 4. B. Pullus, 
Shell gibbous, obliquely striated. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 971, Fig. 26. 
