BUCCINUM. 619 



Bucclnum Orbita lacunosa. Chemnitz, x. p. 200. t. 154. 



f. 1473. 

 Buccinum, No. Il6. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 170. 



Inhabits the coasts of New Zealand. Martyn. 



Shell two or three inches long and two thirds as broad, white, 

 and the inside somewhat pearly ; the transverse ribs are 

 striated, knotty, and reflected in the direction of the spire, 

 and their interstices are made uneven by other smaller ones. 

 This is undoubtedly B. bicostatum of Bruguiere, though 

 his references are all erroneous ; and it appears to me that his 

 JB. lacunosum is a Variety, or perhaps only a young shell of 

 the same species, 



SCALA. 75. Shell ovate, with dilated recurved 

 transverse white belts, and their interstices 

 longitudinally striated. 



Variety A. With four belts. 

 Buccinum Scala. Gmelin, p. 3485. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 150. 

 Buccinum, No. 15. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 360. t. 2. f. 8. 

 Variety B. With three belts. 

 Buccinum cingulatum. Linnaus Mantissa, p. 549 and 



550. Gmelin, p. 3506. 

 Buccinum Trochlea. Bruguiere Enc. Method, p. 248. 

 Buccinum, No. l6. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 360. 

 Murex planatus. Mus. Gevers. p. 320, No. 717. 

 Lister Conch, t. 1059- f. 2. Petiver Gaz. t. 101. f. 14. 



Knorr, iii. t. 7. f. 2. D'Avila, t. 8. f. V. Martini, iii. 



t. 118. f. 1089, « and b. 

 Variety C. With two belts. 



Favanne, t. 34. f. E. 

 Inhabits the East Indian Ocean. Martini. Straights of Ma- 

 gellan, and Cape of Good Hope. Bruguiere. Maryland. 

 Lister ? 

 Shell most commonly about three-quarters of an inch long, 

 and rather more than half as broad ; there are four whirls, 

 of which the upper parts are flattened like steps, and the 

 lower parts have from two to four elevated broad belts, 

 whose dilated margins are somewhat recurved ; the belts 

 are rather glabrous and white, and their interstices brown or 

 grey, and striated longitudinally ; the aperture is toothed on 

 the outer lip, and strongly grooved within. The shell 

 figured by Lister was probably a Fossil, and a fossil speci- 

 men with four belts, also frona Maryland; is mentioned in 



