new species of Buccinum. A! 
Tas. Ill. fig. 1, 2 
Shell white, or brownish-white, of a conical-subulate shape, tapering 
gradually from the angle of the body-whorl to the acuminated apex. 
The whole of the ten whorls are ringed with elevated strie, which, toge- 
ther with those which are intermediate and less elevated, have a granular 
appearance. The epidermis is brown. The mouth is milk-white, with 
the edge of the lip a little reflected, and the pillar strongly marked with 
one plait in the advanced stage of growth. ‘The basal furrow is deep, 
and the canal large. 
This fine and interesting addition to our British Mollusca was dredged 
off Torquay by a fisherman, in a boat wherein was Viscount Kilcoursie, 
the late proprietor of the shell. In its outline it approaches to Terebra. 
It is very different from B. glaciale, with which species it was con- 
founded by some of those who had an opportunity of seeing the shell in 
Lord Kilcoursie’s cabinet. The animal was alive when it was brought 
into the boat, and it is very much to be regretted that it was not pre- 
served with the operculum. 
I have seen two other specimens of this shell, One much younger, 
in which the angle of the body-whorl is not yet developed, and the plait 
on the pillar is only just beginning to appear; though the other charac- 
ters are as clearly marked as they are in the figured specimen. The 
other, a very young shell, is much distorted by a mal-formation of the 
whorls at the suture ; but the general contour and character of the spe- 
cies is preserved. 
BuCcCINUM FUSIFORME. 
B. testd ovato-oblongd, fusiformi, albd, anfractibus 7 ventricosis, lon- 
gitudinaliter creberrimé costatis et transversim striatis, costis sub- 
granulosis ; columellé levi; long. 14, lat. 2, une. 
Hab. in Mari Hibernico. 
Mus. Bennett, J. Sowerby. ; 
Tas. Ill. fig. 3. “" 
‘Shell ovate-oblong, fusiform, white: whorls seven, venttipon, with 
numerous Jongitudinal subgranulose ribs, crossed by frequent transverse 
striae. The ribs cease upon the lower part of the body-whorl, leaving 
the base simply striated transversely. The pillar is smooth. The speci- 
men from which the description was taken was found by Mr, J, Hum- 
