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toothed; pillar fmooth and coloured. The (hell is lefs than 
that of M. ricinus ; the aperture is of a; fiefli-colour. 
50. Murex neritoideus : lhell with numerous rows of 
knots; lip with pointed angles; pillar flattifh. It inhabits 
India, and refembles a Nerita. The (hell is fometimes 
white with black tubercles and violet mouth, or yellow- 
ifli-brown with brown tubercles and yellow aperture. 
51. Murex fucus : (hell coarfe ventricofe, ftriate tranf¬ 
verfely, with four rows of knots; pillar impreffed, and 
with the outmoft whorls flattifti. This is a rare (hell; the 
pillar is marked with two or three black dots. 
52. Murex loco: (hell obovate and knotty on the fore¬ 
part ; aperture toothlefs and fub-orbicular. It inhabits 
the Chinefe (bores; (hell four or five inches long. The 
inhabitant is eaten by the natives, and contains a purple 
juice in the veficle on the neck. 
53. Murex hyftrix: (hell fubovate, with four rows of 
acute fpines; aperture toothlefs, repand. The (hell is 
fometimes of a bay colour, varied with white or yellowifli- 
brown, with or without (pots. 
54. Murex mancinella: (hell ovate, with obfolete fpines; 
aperture toothlefs; pillar tranfverfely ftriate. 
55. Murex hippocaftum : (hell ovate ftriate, with from 
three to five rows of obtufe fpines or tubercles, aperture 
tranfverfely ftriate. It inhabits Guinea, India, and the 
illands of the Indian Ocean. 
56. Murex fenticofus: (hell a little tapering, longitu¬ 
dinally ribbed and tranfverfely cancellate ; aperture ftriate. 
Found in the Indian Ocean; about two inches long. The- 
(hell is yeljowifh, with a brown band on each of the whorls; 
the ribs prickly; aperture oblong; pillar with a fingle 
plait 5 fpire pointed, with diftant whorls. 
57. Murex melongera: (hell obovate glaucous, with a 
fub-fpinous whorl or rather prominent (pire, and fmooth 
aperture. Found in India and America in great varieties ; 
the fpecimens are generally about five inches and a half 
long. The (hell is generally brown, barred with white; 
aperture oval, large; fpire with knotty whorls, rarely 
fmooth; the firft very large and turgid, and moftly fur- 
rounded with fpines. 
58. Murex conful: (hell thick, ventricofe, white, tranf¬ 
verfely grooved and knotty; aperture repand, ovate; lip 
ftnuous, plaited inwardly, and denticulate. It inhabits 
India. 
59. Murex lima: (hell brown, fubovate, and (lightly 
beaked, with crowded nodulous paler belts. Found in 
George’s Bay. 
V. With a long Jlraight fubwlate clofecl heah, and unarmed. 
60. Murex cariofus: (hell without beak, (lightly plaited, 
ovate, pointed; tip carious. Found in the aqueduft at 
Seville ; fize of a bean. The (hell is oblong, pointed, cine¬ 
reous, fub-diaphanous, longitudinally grooved, and emar- 
ginate at the bafe. 
61. Murex babylonius : (hell tapering, with acute fpot- 
ted belts, and ftraight tail; upper lip cleft. It inhabits 
India and the American iflands; is about four inches 
long; and the (hell is furrounded with white belts, and 
marked with fquare brown or black fpots. 
62. Murex javanus : (hell tapering, with immaculate 
knotty belts ; the lip has a feparate fcoop. It inhabits 
India; refembles the M. babylonius; but is white, imma¬ 
culate, and fometimes varied with yellowifh-brown rays; 
whorls carinate or tuberculate, and fub-ftriate. 
63. Murex finenfis: (hell ventricofe, pointed, with a 
cancellate reflected beak; aperture oval; whorls with 
tranfverfe granulate finite; bafe crowned with fpines. Tt 
inhabits Senegal. 
64. Murex ftramineus: fpire with elevated wings, the 
interfaces filled with (liort itraw-like projefitions; all the 
whorls crowned with tubercles at the bafe; aperture vio¬ 
let; lip undulate, and with the pillar fnowy. Inhabits the 
Southern Ocean. Shell draw-colour; three inches long. 
65. Murex auftralis: (hell ovate, longitudinally ftriate; 
lip undulate; whorls caniculate, the firlt turgid and four- 
plaited, the next three-plaited. It is found in the South 
Sea, and is two inches and a half long. The (hell is of a 
draw-colour, with a yellow pillar and fnowy lip. 
66. Murex uncinatus: fpire pointed, and tranfverfely 
ftriate; the four firft whorls with a callus, armed with 
hooks in the middle, the fifth and fixth ribbed, the reft 
glabrous. The (hell is not above an inch long ; the aper¬ 
ture is oval; lip toothed ; fpire with nine whorls. 
67. Murex turris: (hell tapering, the whorls, crowned 
with tubercles, and furrounded with a granulate belt, the 
firft very finely ftriate tranfverfely. The (hell is white, 
with a reddifh band. This alfo bears a ftrong relemblance 
to N° 61. but the lip is entire. 
68. Murex coftatus : beak a little reflected, and oblique¬ 
ly ftriate ; the three firft whorls of the fpire ribbed, the 
other four cancellate, the firft obconic; the pillar has a 
fingle plait. It is found in a foftil date in Campania. 
69. Murex afper: the (hell of this is longitudinally 
plaited, and tranfverfely ribbed ; the fpire is a little pro¬ 
minent; the aperture ovate; lip crenulated. 
70. Murex colus: (hell tapering, ftriate, knotty, cari¬ 
nate, with a long ftraight beak; lip crenulate. Found in 
the Indian Ocean. The,(hell is white, tranfverfely ftriate, 
round, or angular; whorls feparated by a groove, and 
crowned with knots, the upper ones brown; the beak is 
nearly three inches long, and beneath it is brownilh. 
71. Murex morio: beak dilated; (hell black, with a 
white band; whorls a little knotty; pillar wrinkled. 
Found in divers parts of Africa; about fix inches long. 
72. Murex cochlidium: beak dilated; whorls of the 
fpire flat above. It inhabits the Indian Ocean. 
73. Murex fpirillus: (hell with a long beak ; fpire mu- 
cronate ; the whorls convex above. Inhabits Tranquebar; 
refembles the next, but the whorls are not feparated by 
a groove. Shell ventricofe beneath; convex above; fpire 
with a prominent obtufe knob in the centre, the whorls 
furrounded with an acute margin above ; the beak is fub- 
tylindrical, and not dilated towards the aperture of the 
belly; pillar with a tranfverfe wrinkle. 
74. Murex caniculatus: beak dilated; whorls of the 
fpire feparated by a fmall canal. It inhabits Canada and 
the Frozen Sea. The (hell is brown, fometimes larger 
and uniform, fometimes lefs and radiate, fmooth or tranf¬ 
verfely ftriate; margin of the back knotty. 
75. Murex ficus : beak dilated ; (hell ftriate, the whorls 
feparated by a fmall canal; the outer ones brown, the firft 
crowned with knobs at the bafe. 
76. Murex carica: beak dilated ; (hell tranfverfely ftriate; 
fpire a little prominent; the whorls crowned w'ith fpines 
at the bafe. It is about eight inches long; the pillar is 
plaited. 
77. Murex rapa: (hell folid, umbilicate, with a triple 
row of knots, and tranfverfely ftriate; the aperture large 
and ftriate. It inhabits India, and refembles the Bulla rapa. 
78. Murex niveus : beak dilated ; (hell fnowy, diapha¬ 
nous; whorls of the fpire feparated by a fmall groove; 
the firft with tranfverfe carinate ribs. It inhabits the feas 
about Brafil. 
79. Murex granum : (hell hemifpherical, glabrous, dia¬ 
phanous, with a fpreading ftraight beak, crown capillary. 
Found in North America. 
80. Murex aruanus : beak dilated, fpire crowned with 
fpines. It inhabits New Guinea. Shell coarfe, ponderous, 
black or bluifh, furrounded with rings; aperture angular. 
81. Murex perverfus: beak dilated and repand; fpire 
turned the contrary way, and (lightly crowned. It inhabits 
the American Ocean. This fpecies is exceedingly rare. 
82. Murex antiquus : beak dilated; (hell oblong, with 
eight round whorls; the firft ventricofe. It inhabits the 
European and Frozen feas, and is from four to fix inches 
long. The (hell is dark, and of a dirty yellow, very 
finely ftriate, tranfverfely or longitudinally plaited. Zoul. 
Dan. iii. 64. 
83. Murex defpeflus: beak dilated; (hell oblong ftriate, 
and fomewhat rugged ; it has eight whorls, with two ele¬ 
vated 
