GASTEROPODA. 25a 
length of the shell, rounded elliptic, with a well-marked callus and 
narrow channel posteriorly ; outer lip roundly arcuated, within ten- 
sulcate, columella concavely arched; siphonal constriction not deep, 
notch oblique, short, edge chestnut ; interior bluish-white. 
Length one inch; breadth two-fifths of an inch. 
Inhabits Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
This may be compared with Buccenwm vittatum, but is smaller, and 
proportionally shorter. Its aperture has the posterior callus, and 
small, closed, siphonal notch of Nassa. The sutural vitta is very 
delicate ; and its peculiar coloration, especially its pale lace-like reticu- 
lation, is quite distinctive. 
Figures 319, 319, dorsal and ventral views of the shell. 
BucctnuM FUNEREUM (Gould). 
Testa elongata, ovato-conica, lurido-cinerea, striis tenuibus cincta: spira 
turrita, anfractibus sex ad septem superné excavatis, inferné plicis 
longitudinalibus undatis : apertura angusta, ovalis, dimidiam longitu- 
dinis teste adequans ; labro simplici, postice emarginato ; columella 
rectiuscula ; fauce hepatica. 
Buccinum funereum, Gout; Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., iil. 
152. January 1850. Expedition Shells, 50. 
SHELL small, elongate, turreted, ovate-conic, cinereous when dry, 
smoky-brown when wet, surface with very indistinct revolving lines ; 
each whorl is divided into two portions, an upper third, which is simple 
and slightly concave, and two lower thirds, occupied by raised, rib- 
like, longitudinal folds, terminating very abruptly, so as to look like an 
angle of nodules, when viewed posteriorly ; the interspaces about equal 
to the raised portions. Whorls six or seven, the last one two-thirds the 
length of the shell; aperture half as long as the shell, narrow oval; lip 
emarginate, effuse, and incurved posteriorly, sharp and simple; pillar 
smooth, but little curved ; interior liver-brown. 
Length one inch; breadth half an inch. 
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