BUSYCON. 383 



t. 33, fig. b. When the embryo is sufficiently mature, the young 

 escape through an opening in the edge, opposite to that where the 

 liiiamcnt is attached, 



[Animal : foot very broad, rounded, obtuse behind, convexly trun- 

 cate in front ; sole orange color ; above gray with dark gray and 

 black spots and blotches. Mantle pale white with gray spots ex- 

 cept at extremity above, which is deep black shading off to light 

 gray towards posterior extremity. Head short, wider than neck. 

 Tentacles vertically compressed, large, almost black, triangular- 

 elongate ; eyes very small, on offsets one third from head. Pro- 

 boscis very long and large, Vvhite with gray maculas ; margin of 

 mantle crenulate, pale ; teeth yellow. Operculum, apex to poste- 

 rior left corner of foot. In eating, applies end of proboscis to clam's 

 foot, and with sudden jerk of lingual ribbon inward and sidelong, 

 takes a strip of flesh. (^Stimpsoii.) 



Busycon carica. 



Shell large, solid, pear-shaped, spire not turreted, suture not channelled, having 

 a series of the triangular, compressed tubercles just above it, and encircling the 

 most prominent part of the body whorl ; canal long and flexuous. 



Murex carica, Gmelix, 3545, No. 67 — Lister, Conch. 880, fig. 36. — Gualt. Test. t. 



47, B. — Martini, Conch. 3, t. 69, figs. 744, 756. — Knorr, Vergn. vi. t. 27, 



fig. 1. 

 Pyriila carica, Di:shati:s, Encyc Meth. Vci-s. iii. 866, pi. 433, fig. 5. — Lam. An. sans 



Vert. (Isted.) vii. 138; 2d cd ix. 503. — Adams, Best. Journ. Nat. Hist. ii. 269. — 



Gould, Inv. 1st ed. 296. — De Kay, N. Y. Moll. 141, pi. 9, figs. 192, 193. 

 Busycon carica, Stimpsox, Check Lists, 6. 



Shell large and thick, ovate pear-shaped, ash colored ; whorls six, 

 the lowest large and capacious, broadest at its posterior fifth where 

 it is crowned by a series of compressed, triangular nodules, one at 

 each stage of growth ; the spire suddenly slopes backwards from 

 these to the suture, which is well-defined, but not channelled ; the 

 spire is a low cone, pointed, the series of nodules encircling the 

 base of each whorl ; below the nodules the lower whorl gradually 

 diminishes and extends into a long, conical beak ; surface distinctly 

 marked by an elevated ridge of a darker color at each stage of 

 growth, and 1)y revolving lines alternately larger and smaller ; ap- 

 erture long ovate, angular at its junction behind, where a canal is 

 formed by a protuberance of the opposite margin ; outer lip simple, 

 sharp, regularly curved to the extremity of the beak, or slightly 

 arched at the middle, not otherwise contracted at the commence- 



