480 BULLA. 



Inhabits Amboyna, Rumphius. Mauritius. Lister. Trauque- 

 bar. Regenj'uss. East Indies. Martini. Pacific Ocean. 

 Solander. 



Shell varies considerably in size, and is sometimes three inches 

 long, and near two broad, of an oval form approaching to 

 globular ; colour white or cinereous, dotted in waves, and 

 marked with various shades and spots of reddish brown and 

 blue, or sometimes with flexuous darker lines, or bluish or 

 yellow transverse bands. Knorr, vi. t. 21. f. 2, undoubted- 

 ly belongs to this species, and Gmelin has referred to it as 

 such, though immediately afterwards he has from the same 

 figure constituted his Bulla solida. 



amygdalus. 19. Shell oval-oblong, opake, dotted 

 in waves ; apex umbilicated ; outer lip con- 

 tracted in the middle. 



Bulla Amygdalus. Solander's MSS. 



Bulla Ibyx. Meuschen. Mus. Gevers. p. 396. 



Bulla Ampulla, Var. #. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 175. Gmelin, 



p. 3425. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 86. 

 Bulla Ampulla. Pennant, iv. p. 1 16\ Montagu Test. p. 



206. t. 7. f. 1. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. 



p. 124. 

 Bulla striata. Bruguiere in Lncyc. Meth. p. 372. 

 Lister Conch, t. 714. f. 72. Petiver Gaz. t. 50. f. 13. 



Gualter, t. 12. f. F and I. Adanson Senegal, t. 1. f. 2. 



Seba, iii. t. 34. f. 44. Martini, i. t. 22. f. 202 to 204. 



Favanne, t. 27. f. F 2. Enc. Method, t. 358. f. 2, 



a and b. 

 Inhabits Jamaica. Lister. Barbadoes. Petiver. Mouths of 

 the Niger. Adanson. Siam, Goree, and the Isle of Elva. 

 Martini. 

 This species varies almost equally in its markings, and is very 

 nearly allied to B. Ampulla, but the shell is smaller, and 

 more oblong, and the outer lip is contracted or pressed in- 

 wards about its middle towards the pillar. 



lignaria. 20. Shell ovate, rather oblong, trans- 

 versely striated, and sub-umbilicated at the 

 apex. 



Bulla lignaria. Linn&us Syst. Nat. p. 1184. Martini, 

 i. p. 284. t. 21. f. 194 and 195. Pennant Zool. iv. p. 

 116. t. 70. f. 83. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. £6. t. 1. 



