GENMJS BrcriNFM. 33 



ornamented with numerous transverse, rather broad folds, of a 

 deeper color ; the furrows shallow ; spire obtuse and rounded. 

 The whirls are convex, and four in number, the lowest much 

 larger than all the others united. The aperture is wide, oval, 

 of a bright brown ; right lip thin, striated internally ; columella 

 rounded. 



Length 16 lines. Width 9 lines. 



Inhabits Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope, where M. 

 Quoy supposes it to be common, by the fragments he there 

 met with. 



To Quoy and Gaimard we are indebted for this new species, 

 which may be easily confounded with the PURPURA cruentata of 

 Lamarck, as has been well remarked by these learned natural- 

 ists ; but' it ismore TF0fhTO,4lfefcnore ventricose than the last ; 

 the transverse striae are larger and less numerous ; the aperture 

 is less dilated, and the canal a little less elongated. 



34. BUCCINUM ACICUL.ATUM, LAM. The Needle-shaped Buc- 



cinum. 





(Collect. MASS. LAM.) BLAINV. Faune Fran^., pi. 6, c., 



fig. 1. 



Pi. XVI, fig. 55. 



B. testa elongato-subulata, basi transverslm striata, colore varia, diversi- 

 mode fasciata aut zonata ; anfractibus longitudinaliter plicatis, noduloso- 

 crenulatis, ultimo spira breviore. 



Shell elongated, narrow, turreted, formed of nine or ten 

 very distinct whirls, slightly convex, ornamented with a great 

 number of ribs formed like folds, subnodulous, approximate, 

 numerous, and slightly raised upon the lowest whirl ; these 

 ribs are apparent only at the upper part, whilst the base is 

 provided with transverse striae, easily distinguished ; aperture 

 ovate, strongly notched ; right lip thin, sharp, rounded at the 

 lower extremity ; columella a little bent. The general color 

 Buccinum. c 



