BUCCmUM.— Plate I. 



or Dr. Gould ; still, I believe it to be the species, whose 

 most constant character is retained in the short square- 

 like effusion of the aperture ; the thickness and plicated 

 structure of this group vai-ies, as will be noticed in 

 the following species, according to circumstances of 

 habitation. 



Species 3. (Mus. Cuming,) 



BucciNUM UNDATDM. Buc. testd ovato-conicd, spird sub- 

 acummatd, mturis profundis ; anfractibus rotundatis, 

 tra?i-sversini lineatis et liratis, concentrice pUcatis, 

 pUeis e suturis descendentibus ; albidd aut pallide fer- 

 rugined epidermide scepisdme indutd. 



The waved Bdccinum Shell ovately conical, spire some- 

 what acuminated, sutures deep ; whorls rounded, 

 transversely lineated and ridged, concentrically pli- 

 cated, folds descending out of the sutures ; whitish, 

 or pale rusty colour, most fi'equeutly covered with an 

 epidermis. 



LiNN^us, Syst. Nat. (12th edit.) p. 1204. 



Varietates, 



Buccinum vulgare. Da Costa. 

 Bucdwmn striatum. Pennant. 

 Buccinum, solutum. DlUwjti. 



Hah. Shores of Em'ope and the United States. 



This well kno\vn species, the common Wlielk of our 

 market, varies in growth according to the situation it 

 inhabits ; in a rocky gravelly soil the shell is stout and 

 strongly plicated, on mud and in a soft bottom it is thin, 

 comparatively smooth and covered with a soft epidermis. 



Species 4. (Mus. Brit.) 



Buccinum acuminatum. Buc. testd conico-mbulatd, 

 basi contractu, anfractibus medio leviter concavis, trans- 

 versim reffulariter liratis, interstitiis snbtilissime gra- 

 noso-striatis ; columella tmipUcatd, plied subampld; 

 albd, epidermide tetmi partim indutd. 



The acuminated Buccinum. Shell conicaUy subidate, 

 contracted at the base, whorls slightly concave in the 

 middle, transversely regularly ridged, interstices very 

 finely granosely striated ; columella one-plaited, plait 

 rather large ; white, pai'tiaUy covered with a thin 

 epidermis. 



Brodeeip, Zool. Joiu-n. vol. v. p. 44. pi. 3. fig. 1 and 2. 



Sab. Torquay, south coast of England. 



This remarkable light Terebra-]ike species, of which 

 there are in the British Museum two other smaller speci- 

 mens, was taken alive some twenty years since by a fisher- 

 man off Torquay, on the coast of Devonshke ; the original 

 proprietor of the shell. Lord Kilcoursie, being in the boat 

 at the time. It is of light stmcture and of singularly acu- 

 minated growth, approaching very much in these respects 

 to a specimen in the possession of John Bates, Esq., K.N., 

 Sec. Eoyal Yacht Society, thought to be a variety of 

 the B. gladale, recently taken alive by a fisheiiuan off 

 Cowes in one of the basket pots laid along shore in about 

 two or three fathoms water for catching A^^lelks. 



Species 5. (Mus. Brit.) 



Buccinum Labradouense. Buc. testd conico-ovatd, 

 vetitricosd, temdculd, anfractibus rotundatis, transver- 

 sim tenuissime striatis, e suturis subobsolete plicatis ; 

 albd, epidermide corned partim indutd, apertura fatice 

 pallide croced. 



The Labrador Buccinum. Shell conicaUy ovate, ven- 

 tricose, rather thin, whorls rounded, transversely very 

 finely striated, rather obsoletely plicated fi'om the 

 sutm-es ; white, partially covered with a horny epi- 

 dermis, interior of the aperture pale safton colour. 



Eab. Labrador ; Lady K. Douglas. 



This species, of which there are four or five specimens 

 in the British Museum, collected by Lady Katherine 

 Douglas, appears to be quite distinct from any hitherto 

 recorded. 



