Likewise taken from the Murex; they are marine shells, of an elongated
fusiform shape, with whorls ventricose in the middle or at the lower
extremity.
Shell covered with epidermis, rough, fusiform, or ventricose in the
middle; prolonged behind by the spire, but particularly forward by the
canal; aperture oval; the columellar edge straight or nearly so; the
exterior edge sharp; operculum oval, horny, with sub-concentric
elements, and summit lateral.
Fusus colosseus.
F. longissimus.
F. colus.
F. tuberculatus.
F. Nicobaricus.
F. distans.
F. torulosus.
F. incrassatus.
F. multicarinatus.
F. sulcatus.
F. antiquus.
F. despectus.
F. carinatus.
F. proboscidiferus.
F. Islandicus.
F. morio.
F. coronatus.
F. cochlidium.
F. corona.
F. raphanus.
F. filosus.
F. polygonoides.
F. verruculatus.
F. lignarius.
F. Syracusanus.
F. strigosus.
F. varius.
F. crebricostatus.
F. Afer.
F. rubens.
F. sinistralis.
F. Nifat.
F. articulatus.
F. buccinatus.
F. aculeiformis.
F. scalarinus.
_F. colus._ The spindle Fusus. Pl. 25, fig. 3.
Species turreted or sub-turreted, not umbilicated; outer lip entire,
columella smooth.
_F. filosus._ The threaded Fusus.
Species sub-turreted and umbilicated.