108 BOOK OF SPECIES. 



white spots ; ribs roundish and crowded ; spire 

 conic and somewhat exserted. 4^. W. 22. 3. 



BUCCINUM. 



Oval or ovate-conical ; aperture longitudinal, with 

 a notch at the base, but no canal; columella 

 not flattened, turgid at the upper part. 



B. UNDATUM. Ovate-conic^ ventricose, trans- 

 versely furrowed and striated^ and most minutely 

 decussated longitudinally ; whitish, with thick 

 oblique waved plaits ; whorls rounded ; mouth 

 white or yellow. 3^. W. 23. 10/. 



B. GLANS. Ovate-conic^ thin, smooth, shining, 

 clouded with pale brown, and girded by distant 

 dark chestnut lines ; summit of the spire longi- 

 tudinally plaited ; base of the lip spreading, and 

 muricated with denticles. If. W. 22. 38. 



B. PAPILLOSUM. Ovate-conic, thickish, with 

 several rows of white tubercles on a pale yellowish- 

 redground; summit rose-coloured; aperture white; 

 lip muricated at its base. \\. W. 22. 37- 



B. RETicuLATUM. Ovatc-obloug, conic, lon- 

 gitudinally ribbed and transversely striated ; pale 

 brown ; whorls somewhat rounded ; aperture 

 wrinkled and toothed. B. 1^. W. 23. 1 1/. 



B. AMBiGUUM. Sub-pyramidal, with distant 

 longitudinal ribs, and fine transverse striae, white ; 

 aperture rounded ; lip slightly denticulated. \ . 

 B. W. 23. 118. 



