52 GENUS BUCCINUM. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coast of Agde, and of 

 Corsica. 



This little shell is one of the most remarkable of the genus, 

 on account of its delicacy of texture, and of its coloring. Its 

 ornamented bands, interrupted by spots of a regular form, render 

 it charming to the eye. 



52. BUCCINUM L.ACTEUM, NOBIS. The Milky Buccinum. 

 (Collect. WoLDEMAR.) 



PI. XXVIII, fig. 67. 



B. testa ovato-conica, parva, tenui, laevi, diaphano-alba ; suturis promi- 

 nulis ; anfractibus convexis, basi obscuro-albide maculatis ; ultimo spira 

 majore, basi striato, maculis distantibus ad medium cincto ; apertura ovata ; 

 labro dextro intus denticulate, extus crassato. 



Shell small, pretty thin, ovate, conical, smooth, of a diapha- 

 nous white ^ sutures indistinctly apparent ; spire composed of 

 six convex whirls, ornamented at their base with spots of a 

 duller white ; the lowest whirl as large as all the others, 

 striated at base, and surrounded, towards the middle, with 

 small, distant spots, articulated by a reddish line ; aperture 

 ovate ; right lip denticulated within, and thickened outwardly, 

 even to the base of the shell. 



Length 4 lines. Width 2 lines. 

 Inhabits the Indian Seas. 



Risso, in his work upon the productions of Southern Europe, 

 gives, under the name of PLANAXIS l&vigata, page 175, number 

 448, the description of a species which seems to approach the 

 B. lacteum. He notices it as having been found upon the coasts 

 of Provence in the Mediterranean. 



The shell which we have just described is very nearly allied 

 to the B. dermestoideum. It differs, however, in this, that it is 

 never folded exteriorly, and it is always of a remarkable white. 



