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SPECIFIC 
spots on the transverse raised lines and striae ; 
aperture white. 
Inhabits Asia, America, and the Red Sea. 
Fig. 2. M. ramosas. 
Shell with a triple row of foliations ; spire con- 
tiguous ; beak truncate. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 946. Fig. 41. 
Specimen white, immaculate, transversely striate. 
Inhabits Asia, America, Persia, and the Red 
Sea. 
Fig. 3. M. Rana. 
Shell rough, having two opposite compressed 
varices ; belts muricate ; aperture ovate and rather 
toothed. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 995. Fig. 58. 
Specimen reddish brown inclining to cinereous, 
and much paler towards the varices ; two muricate 
belts on the body ; transverse striae raised and 
granulate. 
Inhabits Asia. 
The second variety of this species differs so much 
from the present one, that it cannot properly be 
