288 A. S. PACKARD, Jr., ON THE RECENT 



Buccinum undulatum Moller. [PI. VII., fig. 3, young; 4, adult.] 

 Buccinmn /.abradorense Reeve, Icon. Conch., pi. i. fig. 6. 



Most abundant just below low-water mark. Fine specimens three and a half inches long 

 were frequent ; their egg capsules laid in large bunches were often deposited at low-water 

 mark. This species represents the European B. undatum. 



We figure a young specimen dredged in deep water, with a prominent central carina on 

 the lower whorl. 



Buccinum tenue Gray. [PI. VII., fig. G, fossil.] 



B. scalariforme Miill. 



One specimen was taken on the Bank, Straits of Belle Isle. 



Buccinum cretaceum Reeve, Icon. Conch., Monogr. Bucc, PI. XIV., fig. 112. 



At Long Island, found in fifteen fathoms. Shell fusiform, slender, nearly three times as 

 long as broad. Aperture oval, ending in a rather long, broad, oblique canal. Inner lip regu- 

 larly curved ; the columella projecting into the aperture at the base of the canal; from this 

 projection a slight ridge runs back to the other end of the aperture, following the curve of 

 the inner lip. Whorls nine, convex, especially on the upper two thirds. Spire much prolonged, 

 acute. Twenty-one longitudinal ridges, smooth and rounded. On the first whorl the ridges 

 disappear on the lower two thirds, where the minute revolving lines are more minute than 

 elsewhere. Aperture within light chocolate, darker in the young, in which the revolving 

 lines are more distinct. Length, «j in., breadth, ^ in. 



The slender and fusiform shape, and greater length of the spire than is found in other 

 northern species, will distinguish it. The young and old were dredged alive in ten fathoms, 

 mud and sand, Salmon Bay. Dr. Stimpson informs me that he has seen specimens from 

 the Newfoundland Banks. It seems to be identical with Reeve's species, of which he gives 

 no locality. This fine species is not uncommon, occurring at Caribou Island, seven fathoms 

 young and old, mostly on a rocky bottom. Square Island, fifteen to thirty fathoms, on a 

 shelly bottom. 



Fusus (Neptunea) islandicus Gould. 



According to Dr. Stimpson our American form differs specifically from the European 

 form. A specimen from the Banks is remarkably short and thick, the spire being no 

 longer than the aperture, while the whorls are flattened, being but slightly convex with no 

 revolving lines. The canal is long and tortuous. Length, 2 inches ; breadth, lr\j inches. 

 It did not occur to us on the Labrador coast. 



Morch (Journal de Conchyliologie, 3d Ser. T. II. 36, PI. I. fig. 1,) describes from New- 

 foundland a closely allied species, Fusus (Sipho) Hindus. 



Fusus syrtensis n. sp. [Plate VII., fig. 13] 



Shell thin, very short, ovate ; spire rapidly acuminate, cylindrical, broadly conico-fusi- 

 fonn, a little more than one half as long as the rest of the shell. Aperture large ovate ; 

 canal remarkably short, oblique, very wide, the aperture contracting less than usual ; 

 whorls, especially the first one, with fine revolving lines, becoming larger in the middle of 



