604 BUCCINUM. 



aperture, but I have a specimen which appears to be the 

 same species in a more advanced stage of growth, and which 

 has the hp equally expanded. 



HEPATicuM. 41. Shell ribbed longitudinally, and 

 papillary at the sutures ; pillar-lip dilated 

 and rugose, 



Buccinum hepaticum. Piilteneys Dorset Cat. p. 44. t. 15. 

 f. 13. Montagu Test. p. 243. t. 8. f. 1. Maton and 

 Racket, in Liri. Trans, viii. p. 135. 



Inhabits the coasts of Dorsetshire, rare. Pultenei/. 



Shell an inch long and five-eighths broad, of a dull brownish 

 colour variegated with a few ferruginous spots, and there is 

 sometimes a white band within the outer lip ; spire sharp- 

 pointed, with seven or eight slightly tumid and strongly rib- 

 bed whirls ; pillar-lip folded back, and having one tooth- 

 like ridge on the upper part. 



PULLUS. 42. Shell gibbous, obliquely striated and 

 cancellated ; pillar-lip dilated and thickened. 



Buccinum PuUus. Limmns Si/st. Nat. p. 1201. Schroeter 



Einl. i. p. 328. t. 2. f. 2^ a and b. Gmelin, p. 3481. 



Bruguiere Em. Method, p. 276. 

 Lister Conch, t. 970. f. 25. Rumphius, t. 27- f. N. Pe- 



tiver Amb. t. 12. f. 10. Gualter, t. 44. £ N. Adamon 



6'eneoa/, p. 117. t. 8. f. 11. 

 Inhabits the straights of Malacca. Rumphius. Coasts of Se- 

 negal. Adanson. Mediterranean. Linnceus. 

 Shell half, or sometimes near three-quarters of an inch long, 

 and two thirds as broad, white, pale grey or fawn-colour, 

 and sometimes slightly marked with spots or transverse 

 bands of brown ; the longitudinal elevated striae are some- 

 what oblique, and are crossed by others transversely. 



THERSITES. 43. Shell gibbous, with half the body- 

 whirl and the whole spire longitudinally 

 plaited ; pillar-lip dilated and thickened. 



Buccinum Thersites. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 279. 

 Buccinum Arcularia, Var. (3. Gmelin, p. 3480. 

 Buccinum, No. 4. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 357. 

 Lister Conch, t. 971. f. 26. Seba^ iii. t. 53. f. 44 to 46. 

 Martini, ii. t. 41. f. 413. 

 Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Bruguiere. 



