368 



purpuridj:. 



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

 be given to every considerable variety, tlie nomenclature would be 

 most unscientifically burdened. 



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

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



Fig. 635. 



Buccinuin ciliatum. 



Fig. 209. 



Shell ovate-conic, ventricose, thin ; Avhorls six or eig-ht, sometimes folded at the 

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



Tritonium ciliatum, 0. Fabr. Fauna Grttnl. 401. 



Bucriniini rentricosum, Kiener, Species {IJuccinum), pi. .3, fig. 7. 



Bucciiium ciliatum, Gould, Inv. 1st ed. .307, fig. 209. — Stimpson, Check Lis:s, 5. 



Shell similar to B. undatuni, but thin, paper-like, and destitute 

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



a crcnated appearance. The whorls arc 

 more convexly rounded, so as to be 

 nearly cylindrical ; surface with minute 

 and close revolving lines, color yellowish, 

 or livid, most specimens with Idotchcs, 

 or dashes of brown ; epidermis fawn col- 

 ored, and hispid, with short hairs, ar- 

 ranged for the most part along the lines 

 of increase. A])erture 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 QDmvsoti). 



The thin structure, inflated form, and 

 want of undulations, distinguish this species fi-om the preceding. 

 It agrees very accurately with the descrii)tion of Fabricius ; and Dr. 

 Loveii 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, " ciliatits piJis hrevi- 

 bvs,'' as he describes it. Nor is it less doubtfully the B. vcritri- 

 cosum. of Kiener, although we do not often find it clouded \ni\\ 

 blotclies, or zigzag stripes, as he figures it. 



2> ciliatum 



