GENUS BUCCINUM. |g 



canal short, aperture pretty large, oval, right lip marked 

 throughout its whole extent by deep violet colored lines, 

 crossed by white lines. The columella is smooth, and of a 

 bright yellow color, as well as the edge of the right lip. Ex- 

 ternally, the ground color is of a greenish brown, banded with 

 black. These transverse striae are definite and at regular dis- 

 tances ; six or eight appear on the lowest whirl. The opercu- 

 lum is very small, unguiculated, pointed, and of a reddish brown. 



Length 15 lines. Width 7 lines. 

 Inhabits the Bays around New Zealand. 



This Buccinum is common in the Bays dividing New Zea- 

 land ; it is found at low tide among the stones on the shore. 

 Lamarck had established a species under this name ; but the 

 specimen which he described was a young BUCCINUM testudi- 

 neum, the oblong points of which also form transverse and in- 

 terrupted lines, but less continued and less distant than those of 

 the BUCCINUM lineolatum. We give a figure of it in pi. VIII, 

 fig. 25. 



The name of lineolatum was given to this species by Quoy and 

 Gaimard, who brought it from New Zealand. 



15. BUCCINUM DELAL-ANDII, NOBIS. Delalande's Buccinum. 

 (Collect. MASS, et Mus.) ^HEMN. pi. 152, fig. 1455J 

 Pi. V, %. 14. Mtt, $0*4* . 



B. testA ovato-oblonga, subturriculata, cinerea, transverslm tenuissim& 

 striata, fasciis longitudinalibus undulatis ; spira acutii ; apertura ovato- 

 oblonga ; labro laevi, albo, dilatato, intus striato, rubescente ; epidermi 

 virescente. 



Shell ovate, elongated, subturrited ; external surface of a 

 bluish ash color, marked with very fine, close striae ; it is also 

 ornamented with longitudinal undulated bands or flames, form- 

 ed by lines more or less approximated ; epidermis greenish ; 

 spire slightly pointed, composed of six whirls, which are 



