PLATE CLXXIX. 



FIG. II. 

 BUCCINUM BRUNNEUM. 



LITTLE BROWN WHELK. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Aperture oval, ending in a short canal. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Shell taper, brown, whorls transversely striated, and longitudinally 

 undulated. Aperture toothless. 



Buccinum Brunneum : testa turrita brunnea anfractibus trans- 



versim striatis longitudinaliter undulatis apertura 

 edentula. 



Found on the coast of Cornwall : — A rare, and, as it is presumed, 

 an undescribed species. 



FIG. III. 

 MUREX ELEGANS. 



ELEGANT MUREX. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Spiral, rough, aperture ending in a strait, and somewhat produced 



gu;ter or cancelation. 



