648 BUCCINUM. 



Murex strigllatus. GmeJin, p. .S564. 

 Gualter, t. 57. f. O. Jrgeriville, t. 1 1. f. R. 



Inhabits 



Shell an inch and a quarter long, and about one fifth as broad, 

 with a white belt at the sutures, which is marked with large 

 brown spots. Two of the three figures which Linnaeus has 

 cited for B. strigilatum, belong to the present species, and 

 are quite different from Rumphius, t. 30. f. H, which best 

 answers to his description. 



DUPLiCATUM. 145. Shell turretecl, with the whirls 

 transversely divided, and longitudinally 

 grooved. 



Buccinum duplicatum. Limiceus Sji/st. Nat. p. 1206. Mar- 

 tini, iv. p. 301. t. 155. f. 1455. Born Mus. p. 265. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 354. Gmelin, p. 3501. Schrei- 

 hers Conch, i. p. I69. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 110. Lister Conch, t. 837- 

 f. 64. Gualter, t. 57. f. N. Knorr, vi. t. 18. f. 6, and 

 t. 24. f. 5. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean. LinncBus. Coasts of Haynam. 



Humphreys. 

 Shell about three inches long, and but little more than one- 

 sixth as broad, longitudinally grooved, and the whirls, at 

 about two-thirds of their length from the lower margin, di- 

 vided by a transverse groove ; the colour is pale livid or steel 

 colour, and often nearly white towards the base. 



CINEREUM. 146. Shell turreted, subulate, with the 

 upper part of the whirls lon2;itudinally plait- 

 ed. 



Buccinum cinereum. Born Mus. p. 267. t. 10. f. 11 and 

 12. Gmelin, p. 3405. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 174. 



Buccinum chalybeum. Gmelin, p. 3504. 



Buccinum lividum. Solander's MSS. 



Buccinum, No. 197- Schroeter Einl. i. p. 409. 



Rumphius, t. 30 f. I. 

 Inhabits Amboyna. Rumphius. 

 Shell an inch and a quarter long, and about one-fifth as broad, 



of a steel-grey colour, with a blackish obsolete transverse 



band near the suture ; the upper plaited part of the whirls is 



nearly white, and the summit of the spire brown. 



