366 purpuridj:. 



Say had it from South Carohna ; and I have specimens of a shell 

 from the Spanish Main which differ only in the greater develop- 

 ment of callus and brighter colors. 



[Animal : foot large, auriculatc at anterior angles, narrowed be- 

 hind, with short terminal cirri, broadest before middle ; about one 

 and a half times the length of the shell ; above matted with flake- 

 white punctate blotches on a dark gray ground ; a broad whitish 

 middle line on top ; head broad ; eyes at posterior fourth ; points of 

 vibracula very slender ; head with dark gray maculations. Siphon 

 nearly as long as shell, constantly vibrating. Below white, grayish 

 along middle, with longitudinal clouds. {Stimpson.') 



Oenus BUCCINUItl, Lin. 17G7. 



Shell ovate-conic ; aperture having a notch without a canal, in 

 front ; pillar not flattened, somewhat twisted. 



Buccinum undatum. 



vShcll ovate-conical, ventricose, Avith broad folds and coarse, revoh^ing lines; 

 Avhorls six, convex ; epidermis grayish ; aperture yellowish, lip slightly notched ; 

 pillar twisted, canal a mere notch. 



Biiccliiiim cmssum riifescens, Lister, Conch t. 962, fi<^. 14*. 



Buccinnm undatum, Lin. Faunu Suec. No. 2163; Syst. Nat. No. 475. — Gmelin, 3492. — 

 Knorr, Vergn. iv. t. 19, fig. 1.— Martini, Conch, iv. t. 126, figs. 1206-1209 — 

 Pennant, Brit. Zool. t. 73, fig. 9. — Hutch. Dorset Catal. 42, t. 17, fig. 6. — Mon- 

 tagu, Test. Brit. 237. — Kiener, Iconog. pi. 2, fig. .5. — Drum.mond, Letters to a 

 Young NiituraHst. — Blainv. Malacol. pi. 22, fig. 4. — Sowerby, Conch. Man. 

 fig. 421. — Donovan, Brit. Shells, iii. 104. — Wood, Index, pi. 23, fig. 107.— 

 Brug. Encyc. Me'tli. pi. ••i99, fig. 1. — Gould, Liv. 1st ed. 30.5. — De Kay, N. Y. 

 Moll. 130, p'. 7, fig. 161. — Lam. An. sans Vert. x. 154. — Stimi'SOn, Check Lists, 5. 



Bnrcimim viihjare, Da Costa, Brit. Conch. 122, t. 6, fig. 6. 



Tritonium undatum, Muller, Zool. Dan. ii. 12, t. 50.— Fahr. Fauna Gnjenl. 394. 



Buccinum striatum. Pennant, Brit. Zool. t. 74, fig. 91.— Lister, Conch, t. 962, fig. 15; 

 An. Angl. t. 3, fig. 3. 



Shell thick, ovate-conic, ventricose, grayish or brownish white, 

 encircled with prominent, raised lines, from one fifth to one tentli 

 of an inch apart, with minute, intervening strii© ; with twelve or 

 thirteen longitudinal, obliquely waved, elevated ribs or plaits, trav- 

 ersing the upper whorls, fading away on the convexity of the lower 

 whorl, and generally disappearing entirely a short distance from the 

 lip; a yellowish-brown, velvety epidermis covers the shell wholly, 

 or near the lip ; whorls six, regularly convex ; aperture oval, about 



