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AURICULA bucciiiea. 



TAB. CCCCLXV.— /^. 2. 



Spec. Char. Subovate, inflated, smooth; spire 

 short, acute ; base notched ; three sharp 

 plaits upon the columella; left lip callous; 

 right lip with a thick border. 



Syn. Voluta buccinea, Srocchi, 319. t. \.f. 0. 



Distinguished from A. turgida, M; C. 163, and other 

 similar shells by the regularity of its form, smooth sur- 

 face, short spire, and plain outer lip. The upper plait 

 in the aperture is partly concealed by the callus upon the 

 left lip, and the lower is the spiral edge of the columella; 

 the length and breadth are in the proportion of 3 to 2, 

 Bearly. 



Collected in the Crag, at Ramsholt, by the Rev, 

 G. R. Loathes. 



The shells upon this plate with their analagous species, 

 agree so exactly with Lamarck's Auricula ringens, that 

 they must be included in the same Genus ; but the notch 

 ftt the base of the aperture perfectly distinguishes them 

 from that under which Lamarck has placed them. 

 Brocchi has referred his Voluta buccinea, with two other 

 \ery different shells to Marginella, but without sufficient 

 reason. They have strong claims to be united under the 

 Genus Nassa, and are somewhat related to Columbella; 

 whether it will be necessary upon a revision of the fossils 

 in this work, to create a new Generic division for their 

 reception, is at present a question. They are in all 

 probability marine reliquia. 



