The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. | 24.5 
dentatum Mediterraneum, Itrirs fafciatis maculatum. Pet. Gaz. Nat. Tab. 
g. Fig. 4. Common American Olive. Cat. p. 4. N°: 582. Olivaris Fa- 
maicenfis vulgaris tricolor. Ej. Mem; car, ann. 1708. p. 158. N°: 27. 4 
This is not over half an Inch long, near as broad and high, the 
Mouth is narrow, teeth’d on both fides and finuated. It hath many 
{mall Strie or Ridges, and Sa/cé or Furrows which are deep in Proportion 
to tke Shell. Itis whitifh and variegated by frequent yellow or brown 
Spots and Clouds, and fometimes white Fa/cie are intercepted by brown 
Lines. The Clavicle is made up of five or fix Circumvolutions, and 
is not very prominent. The firft Circumvolution tapersto a Rostram 
or Point oppofite to the Apex. 
I found this on the Shores of the Ifland amaica, and have had it 
from the Coaft of Norfolk in England, and from Gibraltar and Tangier, 
near the Mouth of the Streights. ae 
VI. Idem majus & bevius. 
This differs from the former in being longer, being not fo much 
ftriated, and having only brown colour’d Clouds and Spots. 
I found it in Famascs with the former. 
VI. Baccinum roftratum grande, raris lineis circumdatum leve, non nift 
ima parte cujulq; orbis flriata, Lift. Hist. Comchyl. .Tab. girs» Fig. 2.. Buc- 
cinum ‘fam. fafciatum tenue, Pet. Mem. Cur. Ann. 1708. poigo. Fig. 14. 
Gebaande achaat-hoorn. Rumph. Tab. 94. Fig. H. Buccina levis & 
nitida. Bon, p. 136, N°? 187. Muf: Kirch. p. 460. N° 187. 
This is} about four Inches long, onc and a half broad in the middle 
where) broadeft, and as high in the fame Place, whence it tapers to the 
End of the hollow Rofiram or Mouth one Way, and the pointed Ver- 
tex or End of about feven or cight {piral Circumvolutions the other. 
>Tis all over fmooth and of a purplifh white Colour, having large 
Spots of a brown: Colour all over the Volute, and feveral brown Lines 
running {pirally the fame Courfe, fo that I .am fomething doubtful if 
that from Campeche figui’d by Dr. Lifter. ib. Tab. gio. #ig.1. be not 
the fame Shell, only the marbled brown. Spots worn out, .and the 
Lines. remaining. It hath a wide, long Mouth without Teeth. 
I found thefe of feveral Magnitudes and Ages inthe Seas adjoining to 
Jamaica, and have hadit from the Ifland Beata and River Miffiffips. 
VIII. Baccénum dentatum admodum craflam, fufcum, léviter & den/e 
firiatum ventricofum. Lift. Hift, Conchyl. Tab, 831. Fig. §5. Aw Buccinum 
dentatum roflratum fufcum leve clavicula acuta; Ej.tb. Tab. 832. Fig: 562 
This is very thick and ponderous, about an Inch and a half: long, 
half as broad and high near the Mouth where broadeft. It hath a 
crooked Mouth, with a Hollow for its Tongue, which is tooth’d on 
both fides. It hath about fix Circumvolutions tapering to'the End, 
is whitifh, variegated with brown Spots and Série, which in fome are 
{carce perceivable, | 
I found fome Varieties of this on the Shores of ‘famaica. 
Qqq IX. 
