BUCCINUM. 595 



distinguished by the granules with which the lower part of 

 the pillar-lip is covered, and the longitudinal stride on the 

 body-whirl will serve to distinguish it from B. undulatum. 



UNDULATUM. 24. Shell thick, with transverse 

 broad convex ribs ; aperture toothed ; beak 

 recurved ; pillar-lip granulated. 



Buccinum undulatum. Gmelin, p. 3475. 



Buccinum porcatum. Solanders MSS. 



Buccinum cassideum undulatum. Chemnitz, xi. p. 78. t. 

 186. f. 1794 and 1795. 



Buccinum, No. 89. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 377. 



Cassidea sulcosa. Bruguiere Erie. Metliodique, p. 422. 



Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 159. Lister Conch, t. 990' 

 f. 6J. Fetiver Gaz. t. 152. f. §. Gualter, t. 39. f. B. 

 Seba, iii. t. 68. f. 14 and 15. Favanne, t. 25. f. A 3. 

 Variety. With the ribs narrower, and the spire more acute. 



Buccinum gibbum. Gmelin, p. 3476. 



Buccinum, No. 92. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 378. 



Lister Conch, t. 999- f. 64. 

 Inhabits Barbadoes. Lister. Mediterranean. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about three inches and a half lopg, and two and a half 



broad, of a brownish white colour with transverse rows of 



unequal yellowish brown spots; the body-whirl and two first 



whirls of the spire have only broad transverse convex ribs, 



but the five upper whirls are marked with decussated strias. 



Gmelin's B. gibbum is taken wholly from Lister's figure, 



and in Dr. Solander's MSS. the same figure is quoted for a 



variety of this species. 



INFLATUM. 25. Shell ventricose, and slightly fur- 

 rowed transversely ; aperture toothed ; beak 

 recurved ; pillar-lip w rinkled and granulated. 



Buccinum inflatum. Shaw Nat. Misc. xxii. t. 959. 

 Buccinum cassideum tessellatum. Chemnitz, xi. p. 76. t. 

 186. f. 1792 and 1793. 



Inhabits the Indian and African Seas. ? Shaw. 



Shell four and a half inches long, and three inches and a quar- 

 ter broad, whitish, with transverse ferruginous bands more 

 or less irregularly broken into oblong spots ; the spire is con- 

 siderably produced, and the whirls rounded ; the whole shell 

 is marked with obsolete, broad, slightly convex transverse 

 ribs, and the upper whirls with decussated striae. The mar- 



