568 



purpuridj:. 



the stri^, and then both disappearing. And were specific names to 

 be given to every considerable variety, the nomenclature would be 

 most unscientifically burdened. 



The figure of Kiener, and the wood-cut in " Drummond's Let- 

 ters." &c., are accurate representations of our shell. 



Fig. 635. 



Buccinum ciliatum. 



Fig. 209. 



Shell ovate-conic, ventricose, thin ; whorls six or eight, sometimes folded at the 

 suture ; spirally striated, ash colored, or clouded with brown ; epidermis hispid. 



Tritonium ciliatum, O. Fabr. Fauna Grcenl. 401. 



Buccinnin rentrivosum, Kiener, Species [Buccimun], pi. 3, fig. 7. 



Buccinum ciliatum, Gould, Inv. 1st ed. 307, fig. 209. — Stimpson, Check Lists, 5. 



Shell similar to B. unddtum., but thin, paper-like, and destitute 

 of folds, except short ones near the suture, so as to give that part 



a crenated appearance. The whorls are 

 more convexly rounded, so as to be 

 nearly cylindrical ; surface with minute 

 and close revolving lines, color yellowish, 

 or livid, most specimens with 1 Notches, 

 or dashes of brown ; epidermis fawn col- 

 ored, and hispid, with short hairs, ar- 

 ranged for the most part along the lines 

 of increase. Aperture short, rounded, 

 lip very thin ; throat pure white, or yel- 

 lowish. The pillar has a very oblique, 

 obscure fold. Length, two inches ; 

 breadth, one and three tenths inches; 

 divergence, fifty-eight degrees. 



Taken from fishes caught, for the 

 most part, at the Banks ; fossil, Mon- 

 treal (^Daivsori). 



The thin structure, inflated form, and 

 want of undulations, distinguish this species from the preceding. 

 It agrees very accurately with the description of Fabricius ; and Dr. 

 Loven assures me that there can be no doubt of its being his T. cil- 

 iatwn. As the ej)idermis is often removed, or rubbed, however, we 

 do not always find it fringed with short hairs, " ciliatus pi/i.s hrcid- 

 btts" as he describes it. Nor is it less doubtfully the B. ventri- 

 cosnm of Kiener, although we do not often find it clouded w*ith 

 blotches, or zigzag stripes, as he figures it. 



B. ciliatum. 



