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Pisania buccinula, Martini. 



1780. Tritonium buccinulum, Mart., Conch. Cab. vol. iv, p. 72, 



pi. 127, fig. 1217. 

 1832. Buccinum flammulatum, Quoy, Voy. d'Astrol. vol. ii, p. 



426, pi. 30, fig. 29—31. 

 1846. Buccinum pictum, Rve., Conch. Icon. Sp. 74. 

 1854. " 1 flammulatum, Horn and Jacq., Voy. au Pol. 



Sud. vol. v, p. 73, pi. 21, figs. 1, 2. 



Tritonidba undosus, Rumph. 



1705. Buccinum undosum, Rumph, Mus. p. 97, pi. 29, fig. 0. 

 1767. " " Linn., Syst. Nat. p. 1203. 



1791. " affine, Gm., Syst. Nat., p. 3490, No. 85. 



1846. " undosum, Rve., Conch. Icon. Sp. 55. 



" " Kien., Coq. Viv., p. 39, pi. 12, figs. 



41, 41b, 41c. 



A variety of this species is slender, with indistinct longitudinal 



ribs, aperture and lip white, transverse ribs reddish brown. Of 



the figures in Wood's Ind. Test., pi. 23, fig. 98, is the typical 



undosus, fig. 97 the variety, and fig. 99 the following species : 



Tritonidea fumosus, Dill. 



1817. Buccinum fumosum, Dill., Cat. p. 269. 



1791. " strigosum, Gin., Syst. Nat. p. 3494, No. 103. 



1832. " cinctum, Quoy, Voy. d'Astrol. vol. ii, p. 413, 



pi. 30, figs. 5—7. 

 1846. " Proteus, Rve., Conch. Icon. Sp. 51. 



" ? undosum, Kien., Coq. Viv. pi. 12, fig. 41a. 



Varieties of this species have been confounded with those of 

 undosus. All the earlier figures and descriptions refer to the 

 latter, an East Indian form, though common also in Polynesia. 



T. fumosus was collected by Solander, who attached to it the 

 above'name, under which it was described by Dillwyn. It is of 

 smaller size and more slender than undosus. The longitudinal 

 ribs are prominent and distinct, about nine in number, the trans- 

 verse ribs becoming somewhat nodulous in passing over them. 

 The stride on the interstices are large and distinct. The color 

 is usually confined to the longitudinal ribs. Occasionally the 

 whole shell is of an uniform yellowish color. Lip and columella 

 either white or saffron. The figures in Conch. Icon, represent 

 the three most common forms, though of larger size than occur 

 in Polynesia. 



Strigosum, Gm., has priority, but as he described two distinct 

 species under that name, it is not adopted. 



