G E N U S B U C C I N U M . 53 



53. BUCCINUM GL.ANS. LIWN., GMEL. Tfie Shining Buccinum. 



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(Collect. MASS. LAM.) LIST., Conch., t. 981, fig. 40. 



PL XV, fig. 52. **f 



B. testa ovato-conica, tenui, Isevi, nitida, albescente, lineis spadiceo- 

 fuscis distantibus cincta ; spirS anterius longitudinaliter plicata ; labro basi 

 repando, margine inferiore denticulis muricato. 



Shell ovate, conical, rather thin, smooth, whitish, with spots of 

 a more or less dark red, and upon the lower whirl, a very large 

 spot of the same tint, but deeper : upon the convexity of this 

 whirl, may be counted nine or ten distant, parallel and trans- 

 verse lines of a bright chestnut-color, sometimes brown, at 

 other times blackish ; spire composed of eight whirls, the 

 three lower of which are smooth, and the other five marked 

 with small longitudinal folds, slightly arcuated. Aperture ovate, 

 widened towards the base, which is deeply emarginated, ter- 

 minated above by a small dilated canal, which is formed by a 

 re-entering angle from the right lip, and a transverse tooth 

 from the left lip ; the right lip is arcuated towards the top, thin- 

 ner from the middle to the base, and armed in this part with 

 five conical, pointed teeth, the lowest of which are longest ; it 

 is ornamented in the interior with a. great number of small, 

 very fine transverse striae. The left lip forms a plate which 

 laps over upon the body of the shell, and gives rise to a small 

 projecting keel, which is terminated below by a pointed and 

 oblique tooth, from whence a rounded fold is given out, which 

 is observed to wind spirally into the cavity. 



Length 2 inches. Width 11 lines. 

 Inhabits the Indian Ocean. 



This shell is one of the most beautiful of the genus which we 

 are describing ; its elegant form, and the regular distribution of 

 the bands which adorn its whole surface, distinguish it in a 

 manner altogether peculiar. 



