Pink? & XV. 
BUCCINUM LINEATUM, 
LINEATED. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Whelkes whose mouths are cut short at top, for the gutter or beak 
does not ascend, but bends and falls on the back, oblique or awry, 
exactly like the mouth of a soal or flat fith. Da Costa. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Small, pyramidal, or sharp pointed at bottom. Dark brown, lineated 
fpirally with white. 
Buccinum LINEATUM: recurvirostrum minimum pullum, lineis 
albidis spiraliter distinctum. Da Costa, 
Br. Conch. p. 130. sp. 17. 
This species is found imgreat abundance on the coast of Cornwall, 
The annexed plate exhibits several magnified figures of the most ele. 
gant varieties, together with the natural size. 
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