644 BUCCINUM. 



which is represented in Lister's figure, and which in the 

 Portland Catalogue is quoted for B. Taurinum of Solander, 

 but among his MSS. in Sir Joseph Banks's Library, there 

 is not any description under this name. The Linnasan re- 

 ferences for B. suhulatum and B. dimidiatum are much 

 confused, and Seba, t. 56. f. 16. is quoted for both these 

 species. 



FELiNUM, 135. Shell tiirreted, pellucid, with all 

 the whirls slightly emarginated on the back. 



Buccinum tigrinum. Gmelin, p. 3502. 

 Buccinum, No 170. Schroeter Eiul. i. p. 401. 

 Gualter, t. 56. f. G. Seba, iii. t. bQ. f. A. Martini, iv. p. 

 297. t. 154. f. 1448. 



Inhabits 



Shell an inch and a half long, and full one-fourth as broad, 

 white with two transverse rows of reddish spots on the body, 

 and one on each other whirl. Gmelin, at p. 3475, has an- 

 other species from Martyn with the name of B. tigrinum, 



CRENULATUM. 136. Shell tuiTeted, with the whirls 

 transversely divided, and crenated on their 

 margins. 



Buccinum crenulatum. Linnaus Syst, Nat. p. 1205. Mar- 

 tini, iv. p. 294. t. 154. f. 1445. Born Mas. p. 264. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 350. Gmelin, p. 3500. Schrdbers 

 Conch, i. p. 167. 

 Buccinum varicosum. Gmelin, p. 3505. 

 Lister Conch, t. 846. f. 75. Rumphius, t. 30. f. E. Gual- 

 ter, t. 57. f. L. Seba, iii. t. 56. f. 9 and 10. Knorr, i. 

 t. 8. f. 7. Favanne, t. 40. upper fig. A 1. 

 Variety. Entirely white without any spots. 

 Buccinum candidum. Bor?i Mus. p. 263. 1. 10. f. 8. 

 Buccinum, No. 215. Schroeter Einl. 1. p. 413. 

 Inhabits the African Ocean. LinncEus. Coasts of Amboyna. 



Rumphius. China. Humphreys. 

 Shell from three to five inches long, and nearly one-fifth as 

 broad, of a pale or brownish flesh- colour, with a transverse 

 row of ferruginous dots, which is double on the body-whirl, 

 and there are also short ferruginous stripes between the cre- 

 nellae on the thickened upper margins of the whirls. Bern's 

 3. candidum is entirely white, and the margins of the whirls 

 in the figure appear to be entire, but they are said in the de- 

 scription to be crenulated. 



