Genus LXVIII. Rheda 
pus’s Comb, or the Double Thprny Woodcock— Haynam--Ex- 
tremely fcarce. -dtusr&jc. -/uw : 
757. Cornutum — Grande Becafle Epineufe — Great Thorny 
Woodcock — Arabia Felix— Extremely fcarce. 
Genus LXVII. PURPURA — Pourfres — Purpura. 
758. Cselata — a. A fedtion— La Cifelee — Carved — Normandy 
— Murex Erinaceus Linn. 
759. Foliacea — La Feuillue — Foliated— Very rare. 
760. Spinofa — L’ Epineufe- 1 — Spined — Cook’s Straits, New Zea- 
land — We know but of one more of this curious and delicate 
fpecies. 
761. AntiqUa — a. With the bands faded to an orange colour — 
La Pourpre des Anciens — Purpura of the Ancients — Mediterranean 
—Murex Trunculus Linn. It is prefumed, that this is the fpecies 
from which the ancients chiefly extradted the beautiful purple co- 
lour, known by the name of the Tyrian Dye. 
762. Crifpata — La Chicoree Frisee — Curled, or Endive — Phi- 
lipine Iflands — Murex Saxatilis Linn. Rare. 
763. Pidla — La Peinte — Painted — Guinea. 
764. Rubicunda — La Rubiconde— Ruddy — St. Thomas’s Ifland 
and Goree — Very rare. 
765. Imperialis — L’Imperiale— Imperial — St. Thomas’s Ifland 
and Goree — Very rare. 
766. Erinaceus — Le Heriffon — Hedge-Hog — Guinea— Very 
rare. M. P. 1355. Murex Armata. 
767. Famdica — a. Faded; b. reverfe ; this extremely Angular 
variety of this fpecies is unique. M. P. 3991. Murex Fatnelicus 
— Le_Squelette — Skeleton — China — Very rare. 
" 768. Scorpio — Le Scorpion — ScorpioTi— China — Very rare. 
769. Aculeata — La Becaffine Epineufe — Thorny Snipe — Medi- 
terranean — Murex Brandaris Linn. 
770. Cornuta — a. Having three rows of fpires on the body ; 
M. P. 3372. Extremely fcarce— La Becaffine C'ornue — Horned 
Snipe— Guinea — Murex Cornutus Linn. 
Genus LXVIII. RHEDA— Le C h a r t o 1 *-**-C h a ri 0 t. 
771. Bullata — L’Enfle— Swelled. 
772. A curious ramofe congeries of the ova, or eggs, of feme 
{hell fifli, but unknown of what fpecies. 
773. A congeries of tubular ova of fome {hell fifli, the kind 
unknown, formed on an olive {hell — Eafl Indies. 
774. An affemblage of long tubular ova of fome {hell flfh — 
Eaft Indies — From the holes in the tops of the cafes of thefe two 
Appendix to the Univalves. 
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fpecies. 
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