GENUS BUCCINUM. 9 



are more numerous and less distant in that which we have 

 described. 



8. BUCCINUM PAPYRACEUM, BRUG. The Paper 



X^Jt 



(Collect. MASS. LAM.) LIST., pi. 96^, fig. 16. 



PI. IV. fig. 10. &^,fi/tj4M 



B. testa ovato-oblonga, tenui, transversim striata, albo-rufescente : an- 

 fractibus convexis superne depressiusculis ; spira peracuta ; labro tenuissi- 

 mo, acuto, intus striato. 



Shell ovate, conical, thin, reddish, of a deeper color to- 

 wards the base, covered with transverse approximate striae, 

 slightly raised, more strongly prominent at the lower part, and 

 upon the upper whirls, some slightly apparent longitudinal 

 striae ; spire pointed, composed of seven or eight convex 

 whirls, slightly depressed at their upper part ; aperture white, 

 ovate, elongated, terminated at its upper part by a small 

 canal, formed by a curve at the top of the right lip, and a 

 transverse wrinkle of the left lip ; right lip thin, sharp, finely 

 denticulated, marked interiorly with transverse striae which do 

 not extend far into the cavity, nineteen, twenty, and even 

 sometimes more in number ; columella white, almost straight. 



Length 2 inches. Width 1 inch. 

 Inhabits the Seas of Norway. 



The specimen which served for the description of Bruguiere is 

 the same as that of Lamarck; this specimen appears to me to 

 have been young ; for those which I have examined, belonging 

 unquestionably to the same species, are thicker, with less ap- 

 parent exterior striae ; only the transverse and internal striae of 

 the right lip are always very distinct. 



