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PURPURID^. 



the striae, and then both disappearing. And were specific names to 

 be given to every considerable variety, the nomenclature would be 

 most unscientifically burdened. 



The figure of Kiener, and the wood-cut in " Drummond's Let- 

 ters." &c., are accurate representations of our shell. 



Fig. 635. 



Buccinum ciliatum. 



Fig. 209. 



Shell ovate-conic, ventricose, thin ; whorls six or eight, sometimes folded at the 

 suture ; spirally striated, ash colored, or clouded with brown ; epidermis hispid. 



Tritoniam ciliatum, O. Fabr. Fauna Groenl. 401. 



Buccinum veiifricosum, Kiener, Species (Buccinum), pi. 3, fig. 7. 



Buccinum ciliatum, Gould, In v. 1st ed. 307, fig. 209. — Stimpson, Check Lists, 5. 



Shell similar to B. iindatum, ])ut thin, paper-like, and destitute 

 of folds, except short ones near the suture, so as to give that part 



a crenated appearance. The whorls are 

 more convexly rounded, so as to be 

 nearly cylindrical ; surface with minute 

 and close revolving lines, color yellowish, 

 or livid, most specimens with blotches, 

 or dashes of brown ; epidermis fawn col- 

 ored, and hispid, with short hairs, ar- 

 ranged for the most part along the lines 

 of increase. Aperture short, rounded, 

 lip very thin ; throat pure white, or yel- 

 lowish. The pillar has a very oblique, 

 obscure fold. Length, two inches ; 

 breadth, one and three tenths inches; 

 divergence, fifty-eight degrees. 



Taken from fishes caught, for the 

 most part, at the Banks ; fossil, Mon- 

 treal (^Daivsori). 

 The thill structure, inflated form, and 

 want of undulations, distinguish this species from the preceding. 

 It agrees very accurately with the description of Fabricius ; and Dr. 

 Loven assures me that there can be no doubt of its being his T. cil- 

 iatum. As the epidermis is often removed, or rubbed, however, we 

 do not always find it fringed with short hairs, " ciliatus pills hrrvi- 

 bus,^^ as he describes it. Nor is it less doubtfully the B. veritri- 

 cosum of Kiener, although we do not often find it clouded v.itli 

 blotches, or zigzag stripes, as he figures it. 



B. ciliatum. 



