BUCCINUM. 633 



Junior. Tritonium viridulum. Fabricius Fauna Groenl. p. 

 402. 

 Buccinum viridulum. Gmelin, p. 3493. 



Variety B. With the longitudinal plaits obsolete. 



Buccinum striatum. Pennant ZooL iv. p. 121. t. 74. f. 91. 

 Lister Conch, t. 962. f. 15, and Anim. Jng. t. 3. f. 3. 



Variety C. With the whirls reversed, 

 Buccinum Bornianum. Chemnitz, ix. t. 105. f. 892 and 



893. 

 Born Mus. t. 9. f. 14 and 15. 



Inhabits the sea on the Northern coasts of Europe, Britain. 

 Lister. Sweden. Linnaiis. Belgium. Seba. Denmark. 

 Mailer. Greenland. Fabricius. Iceland. Olajfsen. 



Shell from two to five inches long, and more than half as broad, 

 with seven or eight ventricose whirls, transversely striated, 

 and longitudinally ribbed or plaited with rounded, curved, 

 oblique ribs ; the colour is dirty white, or pale, dark, or 

 yellowish brown, and Seba has figured a blue variety, which 

 he says is found in the Zuyder Zee, but is very rare. It ap- 

 pears to me very doubtful whether Tritonium ciliatum of 

 Fabricius is more than an old shell of this species, and ma- 

 ny of the young shells on our shores answer to the descrip- 

 tion of his Tritonium viridulum. 



CILIATUM. 109. Shell turreted, patulous, some- 

 what beaked, angulated, longitudinally cili- 

 ated, and the pillar slightly plaited. 



Buccinum ciliatum. Gmelin, p. 3492. 



Tritonium ciliatum. Fabricius Fauna Groenl, p. 401. 



Inhabits the coasts of Greenland. Fabricius. 



Fabricius says this shell is nearly allied to the foregoing, and is 

 six inches long, whitish, with the inside glabrous, and coat- 

 ed externally with a ciliated plaited epidermis ; it has but five 

 ■whirls, which are less convex than in B. undatum, and 

 strongly striated transversely, except at the summit of the 

 spire, which is glabrous ; aperture large, and the pillar with 

 one plait. 



soLUTUM. 110. Shell ovate, with unequally dis- 

 tant longitudinal tubercles on the body-whirl ; 

 outer lip channelled, and somewhat detached. 



Buccinum solutum. Hermann Natu?f. p. 52. t. 2. f. 3 and 

 4. Gmelin, p. 3493. 



