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spiral ridges and intermediate striae, crossed by the lines of 

 growth, and waved furrows on the upper whorls. 



13, crassum rufescens, List. An. Ang. 156. t. cxi. f. 2, 3. Couch, t. cccclxii. 



f. 14, 15. Linn. Svst. i. 1204 — B. und. and striatum, Penn. Brit. 



Zool. 121. t. Ixxiii.' f. 90, t. Ixxiv. f. 91 — B. und. Mont. Test. Brit. 



237. — Common beyond low water-mark. 

 Length from 3 to 5 inches, breadth upwards of 2 ; shell white, sometimes 

 tinged mth brown or pink, the cuticle is bi'own, with numerous longitudinal 

 ridges of short hairs ; whorls rounded ; the body wliorl of the female large 

 in proportion ; the spiral ridges are crossed b}' the lines of growth. — This 

 species is used as a bait, and caught in baskets in which carrion is placed. 



317. B. glac'iale. — Whorls nine, tapering, obsoleiely striated 

 spirally, finely striated longitudinally ; upper whorls with lon- 

 gitudinal waved furrows, the body whorl with a spiral ridge. 



Linn. Syst. i. 1204, Don. Brit. Shells, t. cliv In the north seas, rare. 



Length about 2 inches, breadth less than 1 ; white, with a reddish tinge, 

 the keel on the body whorl vanishes on the superior ones ; this shell is more 

 produced, and the longitudinal furrows better marked, than in the preceding 



species It appears to have been found in IJrkney by jMr Agnew, gardener 



to the Duchess of Portland. I possess a slightly mutilated specimen, which 

 I found in Zetland. 



318. B. carinatum. — Shell oblong, oval ; whorls seven, thin, 

 inflated with an elevated circular rib at the top of each, from 

 which they suddenly slope to the separating line. 



Turt. Conch, Diet. 13, t, xxvi. f, 94,— Irish coast, Mr O'Kelly and Mr 

 Tardy. 

 Length 4^ inches, breadth 2i ; white, with a broad rufous band round the 

 middle of each whorl ; spirally and longitudinall}'^ striated, with obsolete 

 longitudinal ribs ; the body whorl is swollen, but the upper ones are flat- 

 tened ; aperture dilated ; outer lip with a thick edge, inner lip smooth and 

 spread on the pillar. 



319. B. anglicamim. — Shell thin ; whorls eight, strongly 

 striated spirally with waved longitudinal ridges on the upper 

 part of the whorls ; lower part of the body Avhorl nearly 

 smooth. 



List. Conch, t. Dcccclxiii. f. 17 B. ang. Lam. Syst. vii. 264. — B. Hum- 



phreysianum, Bennet, Zool. Journ. i. 398. t, xxii Zetland and Cork. 



Length 2 inches, breadth 1 inch ; shell white ; the cuticle brown, pilose, 

 sometimes with reddish-brown spiral bands ; whorls slightly rounded, and a 

 little depressed above towards the separating line ; the spiral striae seem to 

 vary in size as well as the longitudinal furrows, in different specimens ; the 

 striie produced by the lines of growth are numerous and line ; aperture 

 ovate ; pillar smooth or wrinkled. — In 1809, I found two specimens ,of this 

 shell in Zetland, in a fishing-boat, brought from deep water ; those described 

 by Mr Bennet were found in the harbour of Cork by Mr Humphreys. 



320. B. ovum. — " Shell oval, inflated, thin, ivory white, 

 smooth ; volutions six, tumid ; outer lip thin and smooth. 



Turton, Zool. Journ. ii, 366. t. xiii, f. 9.— Plymouth Sound. 



