26 GENUSBUCCINUM. 



name of TEREBRA granulosa, a variety of the BUCCINUM vittatum, 

 to which Chemnitz, who perceived its relation to this last spe- 

 cies; ha(} -assigned its proper place in his great work, pi. 188, 

 fig. 181(3, under the title of Variety of BUCCINUM vittatum. 



Des^ha^es, inJBell anger's Voyage to the East Indies, has given, 

 pi. 2^ fig. 3 ana 4, 'as a new species, under the name of BUCCI- 

 NUM melanoides, a shell altogether similar to the variety of Chem- 

 nitz ; the only difference which I have been able to discover is 

 found in the spire, which is a little more inflected. 



27. BUCCINUM SENTICOSUM, LINN. The File Bucdnum. 

 (Collect. MASS. LAM.) LIST., pi. 967, fig. 22. 



B. testa ovato-oblonga, subturrita, scabra, longitudinaliter plicata, striis 

 transversis elevatis cancellata,rufescente aut rubescente,inferne zona rufo- 

 rubente cincta ; plicis per totam longitudinem denticulato-asperis ; colu- 

 mella plicata aut biplicata. 



Shell ovate, oblong, rough, slightly turreted, its entire sur- 

 face apparently armed with small spifes ; spire pointed, com- 

 posed of nine or ten rather convex whirls, furnished with 

 longitudinal folds or ribs, somewhat distant, and formed by 

 the elevations of transverse striae, which are also cut trans- 

 versely by other striae elevated and resembling sharp scales ; 

 these are a little more prominent upon the convexity of the 

 longitudinal ribs than in their interstices, and it is their pro- 

 longation in this part, which causes them to resemble small 

 spines. Its color is reddish, varied with fawn-colored or clear 

 chestnut-brown spots ; oftentimes the lower whirl presents, 

 towards its middle, a transverse brown band, the half only of 

 which can be seen upon the upper whirls, the whole length of 

 the sutures. The aperture is whitish, ovate, elongated, nar- 

 rowed towards its base ; the right lip has a slight obliquity, 

 relatively to the axis of the shell ; it is slightly crenulated 

 upon the lip, and furnished interiorly with fifteen or sixteen 

 transverse stria? which are continued even to the depth of the 



