JAPANESE MOLLUSKS, BUCCINID^. 31 



scattered maculseof brown, especially below sutures, and sometimes 

 ill-defined girdles. Whorls 9, the earlier two smooth, glossy, con- 

 vex ; the following five very convex, separated by deep sutures, 

 sculptured with strong rounded longitudinal folds as wide as their 

 intervals, about 11 to a whorl, these crossed by strong spiral cords 

 separated by flat interspaces, about 6 on each whorl, becoming lower 

 and more numerous below, wholly obsolete or nearly so on the latter 

 two whorls of the 8hell. The lower 3 whorls are strongly angular at 

 the shoulder, and on the last whorl the longitudinal folds are repre- 

 sented by strong, pointed tubercles on the angle, which number 10- 

 12 on last whorl, the latter fifth of which is free from them. Aper- 

 ture nearly half the length of shell, livid within, the upper angle 

 narrowly sinused as in Gantharus, basal canal strongly recurved. 

 Outer lip thickened outside by a low, wide varix, submargined by 

 short, close plicre within ; inner lip moderately calloused, bearing 

 near its posterior termination a very strong, rounded nodule. Um- 

 bilicus open ; siphonal fasciole defined above by a free laminar 

 edge. 



Alt. 51, diam. 26 mm. 



Alt. 43, diam. 21 mm. 



Japan (Stearns, 3 specimens). 



Distinguished from other species by the strong nodule on the 

 inner lip near the posterior angle of aperture, defining a channel 

 there. Although I have an impression that somewhere I have seen 

 a specimen or figure of this species, I cannot now find that anything 

 much like it has been described. A quite young specimen would 

 probably resemble somewhat Euthria fuscolabiata E. A. Smith. 

 Buccinum lischkeanum Loebbecke. Conchyl. Cab., p. 35, pi. 80, f. 6, 6. 



North Japan. 



Buccinum schantaricum Midd. Sib. Reise, p. 233, pi. 10, f. 4-6. 

 Buccinum middendorffi Verkruzen. Kob., Conchyl. Cab., p. 76, pi. 89, f. 2. 

 Sachalin Is. 



Buccinum simplex Midd. Kob., C. Cab., p. 77, pi. 89, f, 4, 5. 

 Buccinum verkruzeni Kobelt. Conchyl. Cab., p. 80, pi. 90, f. 1, 2. 



Sachalin Is. 

 Buccinum sohrenkii Verkruzen. Conchyl. Cab., p. 81, pi. 90, f. 3. 



Sachalin ; N. of Gulf of Geduld. 



Buccinum mirandum Smith. Conchyl. Cab., p, 92, pi. 92, f. 4. 



E. of Yedo, 11 fathoms. 



