Notice of several species of Shells. ISC' 



2. Genus. DOLIUM. D'Argenville, Lamarck. 



Shell thin, ventricose, inflated, often sub-globose, rarely ob- 

 long, transversely ribbed ; outer lip through its whole length 

 dentate or crenate. Aperture longitudinal, base emarginate. 



Buccinum. Linne Systema Naturae, p. 1 196. 

 " §Ampullacea injlata, rotundata, tenui-subdiaphana, frci- 

 gilis." 



Buccinum. Dillwyn's Recent Shells, p. 582. 



" § Inflated, rounded, thin, slightly transparent, and brittle.'' 1 



SPECIES. 



Dolium dentatum.* Toothed Tun. PI. IX. Fig. 3* 



Shell ovate-globose, ventricose, imperforate, whit- 

 ish flesh colored ; with seventeen obtuse ribs ; colu- 

 mella armed with a solitary and somewhat double tooth 

 above, and furnished with two or three oblique plaits 

 below ; outer lip reflected, making an angle with the 

 body. 



D. testa ovato-globosa, ventricosa, imperforate, albido- 

 carneola ; costis septemdecimis obtusis ; columella superne 

 dente solitario subgeminoque armata, inferne plicis duabus vel 

 tribus obliquis instructs ; labro angulato-reflexo. 



Length 2-7. Breadth 2*2. Height 1-8. 



Inhabits the coast of Peru. Capt. Skiddy. 



Cabinet of the Lyceum. 



Presented by Captain Wm; Skiddy, of the ship General 

 Brown , 



