BUCCINUM. 617 



PLUMBEUM. 69. Shell sub-globose, ponderous, gla- 

 brous, with a transverse groove near the 

 base of the body-vrhirl ; pillar lip very thick. 



Buccinum plumbeum. Chemnitz, xi. p. 86. t. 188. f. 1806 

 and 1H07. 



Inhabits the coasts of California. Chemnitz. 



Shell about an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long, and 

 near four-fifths as broad, of a pale chestnut-colour ; towards 

 the base of the body-whirl there is a deep transverse groove, 

 and another more obsolete lower down, of which the former 

 ends in a projecting tooth on the outer lip ; the spire is 

 short and depressed, and the pillar-lip is thickly coated with 

 a vitreous substance. 



SPADICEUM. 70. Shell pear-shaped, smooth, of a 

 chestnut-colour, with transverse undulated 

 white lines. 



Buccinum spadiceum. Gmelin, p. S485. 



Buccinum Pyrum, Var. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 162. 



Buccinum, No. 8. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 358. 



Mar^mt, iii. t. 94. f. 911. 

 Inhabits the West Indies. Martini. 

 Shell an inch and a half long, and about half as broad ; the 



transverse stripes are described to be white, but in Martini's 



figure they appear to be dark brown, and it is altogether an 



uncertain species. 



UMBILICATUM. 71. Shell oblong, sub-turbinated, 

 and slightly plaited longitudinally ; spire no- 

 dose ; aperture grooved within, and the pil- 

 lar sub-umbilicated. 



Buccinum umbilicatum. Gmelin, p. 3485. Schreiber^ 



Conch, i, p. 150. 

 Buccioum, No. 10. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 358. 

 Martini, iii. p. 205. t. 94. f. 915 and 915 «, and Vign. 32, 

 atp. 198. f. 1. 



Inhabits 



Shell about two inches and a half long, and one and a half 

 broad, of a pale brownish yellow, transversely striated at the 

 base, and marked with irregular longitudinal wrinkled plaits ; 

 the spire is pyramidal, but not one third so long as the body- 

 whirl, and is nodulous at the sutures. 



