DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 



OF 



RECENT SHELLS 



(genus XXIV. 



BUCCINUM: 



SHELL tTNIVALVE, SPIRAL AND GIBBOUS; APERTURE 

 OVATF, FKDiNiJ iiM A SHORT CANAL WHICH BENDS 

 TO THE RIGHT, AND THE PILLAR-LIP FLATTENED, 



Subdivisions. '[ 



* Inflated, rounded, thin, slightly transpa- 

 rent and brittle. 

 ** With a short, exserted, reflected beak, 

 and the outer lip unarmed outwardly. 

 *** Resembling the last division, but the out- 

 er lip on the outside is spinous at the 

 base. 

 **** With the pillar-lip dilated and thickened. 

 ***** With the pillar-lip appearing as if worn 

 flat. 



t The following indistinct species of Gmelin have been omitted. B. aspe- 

 rum, p. 3503. B. canaliculafum, p. 3505. B. cancellatum, p. 3489. B. Chalys, 

 p. 3497. B. cuspidtttum, p. 3505. B. Digitellus, p. 3504. B. edentulum, p. 

 3505. B.fasciolatum, p. 3504. B. lividulum, p. 3505. B. Macloviense, p. 3493. 

 ■B. nanMm, p. 3497. B. nigTopj«nc«afum, p. 3497. iJ. nifcum, p. 3471. B.obli- 

 quum, p. 3504. B. pmctulntum, p. 3503. B. Pitgio, p. 3505. B. squalidum, p. 

 3487. B. striatum, p. 3477. B. stromboides, p. 3489. B. trifasciatum, p. 3489, 

 B. tuberculatum, p. 3503. B. verrucosum, p. 3497. 



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