612 BUCCINUM. 



Shell from two to four inches long, and nearly three fourths as 

 broad, coarse cinereous or greyish brown, transversely striat- 

 ed, and marked with about four elevated belts, of which the 

 two upper are nodulous. The Linnaean Murex Mancinella 

 belongs to the same natural family, and these two species 

 ought not to be so far separated. 



ARMiGERUM. 57. Shell turbinated, and armed 

 with about three transverse rows of large co- 

 nical tubercles on the body-whirl ; aperture 

 white. 



Buccinum Armigerum. Chemnitz, xi. p. 82. t. 187. f- 

 1798 and 1799. 



Inhabits the South Seas. Chemnitz. 



Shell near three inches long, and more than half as broad, ta- 

 pering almost equally both above and below in the manner 

 of Voluta Ceramica, white, marked between the rows of 

 conical spines on the body-whirl with transverse brown 

 stripes ; the spire is armed with a row of pointed tubercles 

 on each whirl, and is white mottled with brown. 



LUTEOSTOMUM. 58. Shell with crowded trans- 

 verse stria^, and four rows of tubercles on 

 the body-whirl; aperture yellowish. 



Buccinum luteostomum. Chemnitz, xi. p. 83. t. 187. f. 

 1800 and 1801. 



Inhabits the South Sea, and the coasts of China. Chemnitz. 



Shell two inches long, and more than half as broad, of an ash- 

 grey colour, and armed with tubercles, of which there are 

 four rows on the body-whirl, and two on the spire. 



LAMELLOSUM. 59. Shell channelled transversely, 

 and longitudinally ribbed; body-whirl lamel- 

 lated towards the outer lip, and the inside 

 bright blue. 



Buccinum lamellosum. Gmelin, p. 3498. Schreiben 



Conch, i. p. 166. 

 Buccinum plicatum. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 44. 

 Buccinum compositum. Chemnitz, x. p. 179. Vign. 21. f. 

 A and B. 

 Inhabits the coasts of New Zealand. Martyn. 



