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several specimens of different ages and sexes, is brought, I think, 

 from the Northern Seas. It appears to me to be very nearly like 

 the BUCCINUM Humphrey si anum of Bennett, (Zoological Jour- 

 nal, vol. I, p. 398, tab. 22). Nevertheless, I have been unwilling 

 decisively to unite it to that, because it wants several of the 

 characters assigned by M. Bennett to the individual which he has 

 described. That which I have figured, has the lowest whirl of 

 the shell much shorter and more ventricose ; the striae, which 

 entirely cover the shell, are closer ; this also does not exhibit the 

 bands which appear upon the lowest whirl of the BUCCINUM 

 Humphrey sianum. Among the number of specimens which I 

 have examined, was found a young one which approached nearer 

 to the figure of the BUCCINUM Humphrey si anum. I suppose 

 that the difference which exists between these two species, is 

 caused only by age or sex. 



3. BUCCINUM L.AMARCKII, NOBIS. Lamarck's Buccinum. 



(Collect. MASS.) 



PI. III. fig. 6. 



B. testS. ovato-conica, Isevigata, nitida,] luteo-rufescente, flammulis 

 spadiceo-rufis ; anfractibus superne subangulatis, supremis obsolete plica- 

 tis; apertura ovata, Isevi, albida; labro margine acuto. 



Shell ovate-conical, elongated, smooth, shining, of a reddish 

 yellow color, scattered over with longitudinal flames of a 

 brown red ; a transverse band of the same color surrounds the 

 base of the shell ; spire elongated, composed of eight whirls 

 slightly angular at their upper part, and very slightly convex ; 

 the first whirls are plaited longitudinally ; aperture ovate, 

 whitish, strongly emarginated at its base, lip thin ; columella 

 smooth and^ yellowish'. 



Length 3 inches. Width 1 inch 3 lines. 

 Inhabits 2 



2 I have in my cabinet, a specimen of this shell, which was found on the 

 shore at Santos, Brazil, by my brother, Mr. Robert B. Storer. TR. 



