GENUS BUCCINUM. 5| 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coasts of Sicily, and the 

 Indian Seas. 



The name of this little shell indicates its beauty; it is colored 

 in a delightful manner. It was described by Blainville from a 

 specimen in the collection of Deshayes, which was found in the 

 Mediterranean. M. Woldemar possesses in his, several speci- 

 mens of the same species, which were brought to him from the 

 Indian Ocean. These are a little more elongated, the longitu- 

 dinal folds, and the transverse striae are very distinct, whilst in 

 some from the Mediterranean the folds and the striae are very 

 indistinct. In this case they resemble very much the B. dermes- 

 toideum of Lamarck. I think the shell figured by Turton in the 

 Zoological Journal, t. 2, pi. 13, fig. 8, under the name of PUR- 

 PUR A picta, p. 365, should be referred to this species. 



51. BUCCINUM DERMESTOIDEUM, LAM. The Dermestoid 



Buccinum. 



(Collect. MASS. LAM.) 



PI. XXV, fig. 100. 



B. testa parva, ovato-oblonga, laevi, nitida, albida, lineis rufis reticulatA ; 

 anfractibus convexiusculis, fascia rubr& ad margines albo-crenata cinctis ; 

 spira obtusiuscula ; apertur& angustata. 



Shell small, ovate, oblong, smooth, polished ; spire some- 

 what obtuse, composed of five or six slightly convex whirls, of 

 a whitish color, and covered with small, ocellated, reddish 

 points, forming an indistinct net-work ; the sutures are sur- 

 rounded above by a small band of alternating white and red 

 spots, while the lower part is marked by another brown band, 

 sometimes broken by distant white spots. The middle of the 

 lowest whirl is surrounded by a sub-crenulated red band, inter- 

 rupted by white spots ; at the base of the whirl are seen 

 transverse striae, and a small brown band. Aperture ovate ; 

 right lip thin, and slightly denticulated. 



Length 4 lines. Width 2 lines. 



