1 tf B UCCINUM. WHELK. 



.slightly toothed within ; inner-lip slightly reflected with 

 generally two faint distant folds : color whitish, or pale 

 ochre : length about half an inch ; breadth hardly three- 

 e.ghths. 



it differs from the last, and from the young of B. reticu- 

 latum, in being broader in proportion to its length, in the 

 volutions being a little flattened at their tops, and in the 

 ribs being more distant and a little swelling at the junctures : 

 it wants also the colored spot at the back of the canal. 

 . Maton and Hackett, and consequently Mr. Dillwyn, in re- 

 ferring to the tig. 19. in the Dorset Catalogue, not consider- 

 ing that there are two numbers of this denomination, have 

 directed us to that without the star, which is Helix succinea. 

 The former authors, in their corrigenda, have strangely 

 desired us to erase 19, and substitute 23, a number not to 

 be found. 



About Weymouth and Poole, and at Portmarnock In 

 Dublin bay : rare. v. nt. 



9. Buccinum tuberculatum. Tnbercled Whelk. 



ShelJ. taper, white but not glossy : spires six, rounded 

 and well denned by the line of junction, with numerous 

 strong longitudinal ribs crossed by fine transverse lines, 

 giving them a tubercled appearance : aperture oval ; the 

 outer-lip thin and toothed within ; inner-lip strongly marked 

 with oblique striae, and ending in a short reflected rather 

 cloven canal : length six-tenths of an inch j breadth not a 

 third of its length. 



It differs from B. reticulatum in its elongated and taper 

 shape, and in the inner-lip and canal ; from B. ambiguuni, 

 m having the ribs more numerous and closer together, and 

 in wanting the stronger tubercles at the junctions of the 

 volutions ; from B. hepatioum, in not having the volutions 

 entirely covered wicu tubercles; and from all, in the strong 

 oblique strife on the pillar. 



Found in the sand at Exmouth, and is in the cabinet of 

 Mrs. C. W. Loscombe : very rare. v. m. 



10. Buccinum hepaticum. Liver-colored Whelk. 

 Montagu, pi. 8. f. 1 Dorset Cat. pi. 15. f. 13. 



Shell oblong-oval, pointed, with seven or eight swollen 



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