344 MURICID^. 



glossy; a few small intermediate striae traverse also all or 

 some of the whorls ; the points of intersection on the ribs are 

 slightly nodnlous : colour pale yellowish- white or whitish : 

 epidermis rather thin, brownish-yellow, rising into numerous 

 fine prickles on the spiral striae ; the same bald triangular patch 

 is observable below the periphery near the mouth as in several 

 allied species : sjyire elegantly tapering to a blunt point ; apex 

 button-shaped, symmetrical and much compressed, like that of 

 the last three species : ivTiorls 8, convex, gradually enlarging ; 

 the last occupies five-eighths of the shell : suture deep : mouth 

 angularly oval ; length (including the canal) about one-half 

 of the shell : canal short, very wide, bending to the left, two- 

 thirds open, ending in a large and obliquely curved notch: 

 outer lip nearly semicircular, flexuous, abruptly incurved above; 

 edge sharp ; inside plain : inner Up forming a thin glaze on 

 the pillar, but not spread over the underside of the shell : 2nllar 

 deeply curved, bevelled inwards, and sharply angulated at the 

 commencement of the canal : operculum (in a Norwegian speci- 

 men) pear-shaped, light brown, with the nucleus as in other 

 species of Fusus. L. 1*7. B. 0-8. 



Habitat : '' Outside Cork Harbour/^ in 40 f., inth 

 Buccinum Humphreijsianum, and in the stomachs of 

 haddock and red gurnard (Humphreys) ; very rare. 

 Two living specimens were dredged between Cape Clear 

 and Newfoundland by the master of a vessel on her 

 voyage from Bristol (Stutchbury) ; Finmark^ 30-160 f. in 

 sand (M^Andrew and Barrett); M anger fiord and Vadso, 

 50-100 f. (Sars); Christiansund_, 50 f. (Danielssen) . 



Buccinum fusiforme of Broderip ; but as it belongs 

 to the genus Fusus, that specific name is of course in- 

 appropriate. I proposed at one time to change it for 

 Bi^oderipi, not being then aware that Turton had de- 

 scribed the shell under the name which I have now 

 adopted : Murex fenestratus of Chemnitz is a species of 

 Triton. 



F. latericeus of INI oiler (an arctic species) was found 

 by Sir Henry James in the Wexford deposit ; it is the 

 Tritoniwn incarnatum of Sai's. 



