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which are covered with small grayish points ; but the most re- 

 markable variety is that which we give, pi. XIII, fig. 44, upon 

 'which is beautifully delineated a foliaceous band which covers 

 the whirls and the body of the shell. 



' 46. BUCCINUM CORNICUL.ATUM, LAM. The Horn-like Buc- 



cinwn. 7 I&*W1TZJ tyls 



(Collect. MASS. LAM.) PAYR. Cat. pi. 8, fig. 10, 11, 12. 



PI. XVI, fig. 56; et pi. XIV, fig. 47, young. 



B. testa parvula, oblongo-conica, angusta, Isevi, nitida, cornea, maculis 

 fulvis aut rubris ornata; anfractibus connatisj labro intus dentato. 



Shell small, pretty thick, oblong, cylindrical, subturreted, 

 smooth, white or of a variegated color, marked with brown or 

 bright fawn colored spots or waved and zigzag longitudinal 

 lines ; spire very pointed, composed of six or seven scarcely 

 convex whirls ; sutures indistinct. Aperture narrow, elongat- 

 ed, of an orange color; right lip pretty thin, denticulated 

 within. Columella generally smooth, without guttules, at its 

 base. 



Length 6 to 7 lines. Width 2 lines. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coasts of Provence, Corsica 

 and Sicily. 



This shell has altogether the aspect of the BUCCINUM Gervillii ; 

 and it is only after an attentive examination, that we finally dis- 

 cover the characters which serve to distinguish it from that. In 

 the B. corniculatum, the denticulations of the right lip are less 

 numerous, and the aperture is of an orange color, whilst, on the 

 contrary, it is of a violaceous white in the B. Gervillii. Blain- 

 ville had also placed this shell among the COLUMBELL.E, which 

 it somewhat resembles in the aperture, which is narrow in both 

 species, and in the right lip, being very gently swollen towards 

 its middle. 



We shall give, at the end of this monograph, the situation 

 which should be assigned to the shells which we shall have 



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