BUCCINUM. 5B9 



Cassis cornula, Coquille vieille. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. 



p. 80. 

 Cassis labiata. Chemmtz, xi. p. 71. 1. 184 and 185. 

 Lister Conch. 1. 1008. f. 71 &. Rimphius, t. 23. f. A. 



Petiver Amb. t. 7- f. 10, and t. 11. f. 10. Martini, li. 



t. 3 J. f. 302. Favanne, t. 2^. f, A 2. 

 Junior, Buccinum cornutum. Linnaus Si/sf. Nat. p. ] 198. 



Martini, ii. p. 33. t. 33, f. 348 and 3*49. Born Mas. 



p. 243. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 314. Gmelin, p. 3472. 



Schreihers Conch, i. p. 142. 

 Cassidea cornuta, Coquille jeune. Brnguiere Enc. Metho- 



dique, p. 434. 

 .Cassis cornuta, Coquille jeune. Lamarck St/st. p. 80. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 155. Lister Conch, t. 



1006. f. 70, and t. 1009. f. 71 c Rumphiiis, t. 23. f. 1. 



Petiver Gaz. t. 151. f. 9, and Amb. t. 7. f. 14. Gualter, 



t. 40. f. D. Seba, iii. t. 73. f. 7, 8, 17, and 18. Knorr, 



iii. t. 2. f. 1. Favanne, t. 26. f. A 1. 

 Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphins. Coasts of America. Linnams'? 



East Indies and China. Humphrej/s. 

 This shell when at maturity, according to Born, is sometimes 

 more than a foot long, but the length is more commonly 

 about nine inches, and the extreme breadth near seven ; the 

 whole of the otitside is of a dirty white, and indistinctly reti- 

 culated with shallow grooves which form obsolete nodules, 

 besides which there are also three transverse rows of large 

 distant pointed tubercles; the pillar is purplish black with 

 white elevated plaits, and a large dilated flesh-coloured lip 

 which is rounded at the extremity ; the outer lip is dilated 

 and flesh-coloured, and has about eight distant broad white 

 teeth which are bordered with black. Young shells are 

 smaller, and are marked with reddish or chestnut-coloured 

 spots ; they have three smooth transverse convex bands, 

 which become obsolete when the shell arrives at maturity, 

 and in their place the rows of large tubercles are then 

 formed. Linnaeus appears only to have known this species 

 in this early stage of its growth. 



RUFUM. 15. Shell with decussated striee, and no- 

 dulous transverse belts, between which is a 

 double line ; aperture toothed ; beak re- 

 curved. 



Buccinum rufum. Linnaus Si/sf. Nat. p. 1198. Martini, 

 ii. p. 20. t. 32. f. 341, and t. 33. f. 346 and 347. Born 



