EUCCINUM, 605 



Shell three-quarters of an inch long, and two thirds as broad, 

 pale olivaceous or cinereous, sometimes marked with a 

 darker or brownish band, and the inside is of an uniform 

 brown w uh the exception of a pale narrow transverse stripe ; 

 about the middle of the back of the body-whirl there is a 

 singular gibbosity, the space between which and the outer 

 lip is smooth, and the other half as well as the whole spire 

 is longituduially and somewhat obliquely plaited. 



VERRUCOSiJM. 44. Shell gibbous, and tuberculated ; 

 pillar-lip dilated and thickened. 



Buccinum verrucosum. Bruguiere Enc Method, p. 279- 

 Cassis perlata. Meuschen Mus. Gevers. p. 390, No. J 275. 

 Lister Conch, t. 972. f. 27. 



Inhabits the East Indies, Lister. Ceylon, and among the 

 rocks in the sea at Foulepoint in Madagascar. Bruguiere. 



Shell nearly of the same size and appearance as B. Thersites, 

 but has four rows of tubercles on the body-whirl, of which 

 one is situated by the suture, two in the middle, and one at 

 the base ; the row at the base is said by Bruguiere to be 

 sometimes wanting, and always smaller than the others. 



GiBBOSULUM. 45. Shell gibbous, smooth; pillar- 

 lip dilated and thickened. 



Buccinum gibbosulum. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1201. 



Schroeter Einl. i. p. 329- t. 2. f. 3. a and b. Gmeliuy p. 



3481. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 153. Bruguiere Enc. 



Meth. p. 280. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 383. Lister Conch, t. 973. f. 28. 



Knorr, vi. t. 22. f. 6. Martini, ii. t. 41. f. 414 and 



415. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. Asiatic Ocean. Bru- 

 guiere. 

 Shell rather more than half an inch long, and almost equally 

 broad, with a short pointed spire, of which nearly the whole 

 of one side is buried in the expanded margin of the aper- 

 ture ; the middle of the back of the body-whirl is gibbous, 

 and on its side towards the outer lip is a large irregular in- 

 denture. 



MUTABiLE. 46. Shell oval-oblong, smooth, with the 

 upper whirls longitudinally grooved ; pillar 

 two-plaited. 



