BUCCINUM. 599 



Shell about an inch and a half long, and rather more than half 

 as broad, of a whitish, fawn, or flesh-colour, variously 

 marked with pale yellowish bands, or longitudinal streaks, or 

 reddish spots, and a row of dark brown spots on the outer 

 lip ; the body-whirl is longitudinally plaited, particularly on 

 the side of the outer lip, and a transverse row of nodules is 

 formed on the shoulder, as also sometimes on the two first 

 whirls of the spire. Born and Bruguiere have followed Mar- 

 tini, and refer only to his figure 363 for this species, where- 

 as Schroeter, Gmelin, and Schreibers have cited all the 

 figures above referred to, and the gradation appears to me to 

 be too regular to admit of any specific distinction. Dr. So- 

 lander, on the contrary, has not made any reference to Mar- 

 tini for B. Erinaceus, but quotes f. 363 for his B. Meles, 

 and the other four figures for another species which appears 

 in the Portland Catalogue under the name of B. Pantheri- 

 na. The lip is sometimes not muricated, but I much doubt 

 whether this difference, as well as that which often happens in 

 the nodules of the spire, may not be produced by age ; and 

 Linnaeus was probably of the same opinion, for he has re- 

 ferred to both D and I of Gualter's plate 39, and also to six 

 figures in Seba which comprise all these different appear- 

 ances. 



BiARMATUM. 32. Shell slightly plaited longitudi- 

 nally, and crowned with papillae ; outer lip 

 with two rows of sharp spines. 



Buccinum nodulosum. Gmelin, p. 3479. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 140. 

 Buccinum, No. 107. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 383. t. 2. 

 f.9. 



Inhabits 



Shell about an inch long and two thirds as broad, and is shorter 

 as well as thicker than B. Erinaceus, from which, accord- 

 ing to Schroeter's description, it may be at once known by 

 its having the inside as well as outside of the outer lip muri- 

 cated. In colour it resembles B. Erinaceus, and has a 

 dark spot at the termination of the Canal, as well as a row 

 of spots along the upper edge of the margin of the outer lip. 

 There are two Buccina in Gmelin with the name of nodu- 

 losum, and 1 have therefore changed that of the present spe- 

 cies. 



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