BUCCINUM. 625 



L^vissiMUM. 83. Shell oblong-ovate, polished, 

 obliquely truncated at the base, and the apex 

 obtuse. 



Buccinum laevissimum. Gmelin, p. 3494. Schreibers 



Conch, i. p. 161. 

 Buccinum flammeum. Brugtiiere Eric. Meth. p. 266. 

 Buccinum, No. 66. Schroeter Eitil. i. p. 372. 

 Martini, iv. p. 72. t. 127. f. 1213 and 1216. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Martini. 



Shell about two inches long, and rather more than half as 

 broad, yellowisli or whitish, with eight or nine longitudinal 

 jstripes of brown on the body-whirl, and a smaller number 

 on the spire ; the pil!ar-lip is concave, and the aperture ob- 

 liquely truncated at the base. Martini's figure is white with 

 the apex blue, and Bruguiere suspects it was taken from a 

 bleached specimen, which in this species he says are the 

 most commonly met with. Knorr, v. t. 18. f. 3, and Mar- 

 tini, iv. t. 125. f. 1193, to which Gmehn has referred for his 

 S. obtusum, may probably have been made from other 

 damaged specimens of this species, but the figures are so 

 bad, and the description is so obscure, that they are hardly 

 worth notice. 



CYANEUM. 84. Shell ovate-oblong, brittle, bluish, 

 transversely striated, and the whirls tiled at 

 the sutures ; pillar with one plait. 



Buccinum cyaneum. Bruguiere Enc Meth. p. 266. 

 Buccinum glaciale novum. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 141. 

 Chemnitz, x. p. 182. t. 132. f. 1448. 



Inhabits the shores of Greenland. Chemnitz. 



Shell an inch and three-quarters long and half as broad, of a 

 pale blue colour slightly mottled with white ; there are five 

 whirls, which overlap each other so as to conceal the su- 

 tures, and the whole shell is marked with minute distant 

 strise. 



L^VE. 85. Shell ovate-oblong, smooth, brown with 

 darker bands, and finely striated trans- 

 versely; aperture oval, and ending in a 

 canal. 



Buccinum laeve. Gmelin, p. 3488. 



Buccinum, No. 36. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 366. 



