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longitudinal and faint transverse strise, wliicli however are 

 prominent and lamelliform at the columella ; the mouth oval, 

 with the outer lip thin-edged, the columella with an oblique 

 groove ; the canal short ; the colour white, or yellowish-wlu"te, 

 that of the interior yellow, orange, or wliite. Length from five 

 to six inches, breadth more than half the length. 



Animal elongated, spiral, yellowish-white ; with the tenta- 

 cula short, depressed, roimded, each having a rounded lobe at 

 the base externally, laearing a small black eye ; in the mouth 

 an exsertile cylindrical proboscis, about an inch long, contain- 

 ing a long, filiform, bright red lingual mass ; the foot large, 

 oval, rugose, tinged with yellow ; the operculum ovato- oblong, 

 concentrically striate ; the penis about an inch long, depressed, 

 transversely striolate, abruptly terminated ; the margin of the 

 mantle plain, with an open tapering canal on the left, often 

 spotted with black externally. 



Sometimes used as bait. 



Very abundant in deep water, on hard ground, off the coast 

 from Stonehaven to Banff"; frequently brought up by the lines. 



Buccinum album Iceve, maximum. Lister, Anim. Angl. 165. PI. 

 3. f. 1. — Murex antiquus. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1222. — Murex des- 

 pectus. Mont. Test. Brit. 2.56. — Fusus antiquus. Flem. Brit. Anim. 

 348, — Murex despectus. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 124. PI. 78. — Fusus 

 antiquus. Lamk. Syst. vii. 125. — Fusus antiquus. Johnst. 235. 



2. Fusus corneus. Horny Spindle-Shell. 



Shell oblongo-fusiform, moderately thick, covered with a thin 

 epidermis ; the spire tapering to a small but obtuse point ; the 

 whorls little convex, the last rather broader than the length of 

 the spire, with distinct longitudinal and very faint transverse 

 striae ; the mouth oblong, with the outer lip thin ; the canal 

 rather long, and considerably recurved ; the colour white, that 

 of the interior bluish-white ; the epidermis yellowish-grey or 

 horn-colour. 



Animal white ; with the foot short, oval, and rugose ; the 

 operculum brown. 



Not uncommon in deep water, on hard ground, off* the coast, 

 from Aberdeen to Peterhead, also at Gamrie, Fraserburgh, and 

 Banff"; often brought up by the lines. 



Buccinum angustius, tenuiter admodum striatum. Lister. Anim. 

 Angl. 157. PI. 3. f. 4.— Murex corneus. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 1234. 

 •^Murex corneus. Mont. Test. Brit. 258. — Murex corneus. Penn. 

 Brit. Zool.iv. 124. PL 76. f. 99.— Fusus corneus. Flem. Brit. Anim. 

 348. — Fusus corneus. Johnst. Berw. Tr. iii. 235. 

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