BUCCINUM. 641 



ARMILLATUM. 129. Shell ovate, with each whirl 

 crowned by a row of tubercles ; aperture 

 large and toothless. 



Buccinum armillatum. Gmelin, p. 3496. 



Buccinum, No. 38. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 366. 



Murex rugosus. Born Mus. p. 305. t. 11. f. 6 and 7. 



Martini, iv. p. 38. t. 124. f. 1155 to 1157. 



Inhabits 



Shell rather more than an inch and a half long, and halfas 



broad, white, with reddish brown tubercles; pillar with a 



large umbilicus ; aperture oval, and ending in a short beak. 



NITIDULUM. 130. Shell ovate-oblong, polished, 

 transversely striated and marked with arti- 

 culated bands ; outer lip toothed within. 



Buccinum nitidulum. Litimcus Sj/st. Nat. p. 1205. Bru- 



guiere Enc. Meth. p. 281. 

 Gualter, t. 52. f. C. Adanson Senegal, p. 135. t. 9. f. 27. 



Junior. Buccinum lasvigatum. LinnfEus Si/st. Nat. p. 1205. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 348. Gmelin, p. 3497. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnmus. Coasts of Goree, 

 Adanson. 



Linnaeus says B. nitidulum ' varies in colour and bauds, is 

 often marked with a black belt, and that the pillar-lip is not 

 replicated.' The shell which Martini, Schroeter, and Gme- 

 lin have considered to be this species, neither answers to 

 the description or reference, and is much more like the Lin- 

 naean B. mutabile. Bruguiere says it is eleven lines long, 

 and half as broad, generally brown, with white spots on the 

 spire, and eight or ten dark brown bands, which are spotted 

 with white on the body-whirl, but that the colour is some- 

 times greenish or livid, M'ith white bands spotted with brown; 

 be remarks that the longitudinal wrinkled striae which Lin- 

 naeus has mentioned are only markings occasioned by the 

 growth of the shell, and describes it to be minutely striated 

 transversely. Linnseus says his B. Iccvigatum differs from 

 B. nitidulum in wanting a lip on the pillar, and teeth at the 

 aperture, and Bruguiere has ascertained that it is only the 

 same species, in an early stage of its growth. 



VENTRicosuM. 131. Shell ovate-oblong, brown 

 striated with white, and somewhat plaited. 

 Buccinum ventricosum, Gmelin, p. 3498. 



