Genus LXIII. Rapum. 
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Genus LXII. MUREX— Rocher— Rock. 
683. Reticulatus — Le Refeau, ou Le Cu de De — Netted, or 
Thimble — Weft Indies — Voluta Reticulata Linn. M. P. 1195. 
684. Cancellatus — Le Treillifs£ — Latticed — Mediterranean— 
Voluta Cancellata Linn. 
685. Urnula — L’Urne — Urn — Peru! — This curious ftiell is 
prefumed to be unique. 
686. Armatus — L’Arme — Armed — Martinique — Very rare. 
Voluta Armata Soland. 
687. Vafa — Le Vafe — Vafe — Weft Indies —Rare, Voluta 
Muricata Soland. 
688. Horridus — Le Diable — Devil — China, &c. — Voluta Tur- 
binellus Linn. 
689. Tribulus — La Chauffe Trappe — Caltrops, or Long Spired 
Devil — China, &c. — Voluta Ceramica Linn. 
Genus LXIII. RAPUM— Nave t— ' Turn ep. 
690. Grave — Le Pefant — Heavy — Straits of Malacca — Voluta 
Gravis Soland. One of them M. P. 2274. 
691. Produftum — a. Reverie, L’Offrande avec la Bouche a. 
Gauche, Voluta Ponderofa Soland, var. ( 3 . Apertura Jiniftra , M. P. 
4023. This is the only fpecinien of this very uncommon variety 
of this fpecies that we know of. Large reverie (hells of this 
genus, but particularly of this fpecies, are in very great efteem in 
China, where they are deemed facred, and are in the cuftody of 
the priefts only, who depofit them in their pagodas : and we are 
informed, from good authority, that it is ^ciiftomJn_that country 
for the friends of a lick perfon who^f^near as a laft re- 
fource, to fend for a prieft, who adminifters a medicine to the 
lick out of one of thefe (hells; and they believe, that if the me- 
dicine fo given (hould fail of the defired effedf, nothing elfe can 
fave the patient from death. A price, to the amount of on£ hun- 
dred guineas, has been given by the Chinefe for a fine one. They 
are called in France, and in Germany, the Offering, or Sacred 
Shells— Le Long— High Spired— Madagafcar — Voluta Ponderofa 
Soland. c- 
692. Roftratum — a. A curious faring of 21 fpawn-cafes, or 
e*Ea, of this fpecies, with young (hells in them ; this is the only 
fpecimen of the ova of this fpecies that we recollect to have feen, 
or, at leaft, that we could afcertain to belong to it ; a. 1. embryo 
(hells, as taken from the egg ; b. young, with many fpots ; c. full 
grown; d. diftorted — Le Long Bee — Long Beaked — Tranquebar 
r — Voluta Pyrum Linn. & Soland. 
693. Angulatum — L’AngUlaire — Angulated— Providence Ifland 
—Voluta Angulata Soland. 
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