BUCC1NANOPS. 13 



B. PERSICA, E. A. Smith. PL 5, fig. 70. 



Greyish, or lavender-color; spirally sulcate, somewhat gran- 

 ulous next below the suture. Length, 1 inch. 



Bushire, Persian Gulf. 

 B. SULCATA, Reeve. PL 5, fig. 71. 



Lavender or lead-color, rather solid; whorls closely, concen- 

 trically grooved. 



. Habitat unknown. 

 B. SEMIFLAMMEA, Reeve. PL 5, fig. 75. 



Yellowish white, lower half of whorls with longitudinal chest- 

 nut flames. Length, 1'25 inches. 



Gape of Good Hope. 



Subgenus Buccinanops, d'Oib. 



Embraces three species from the Southern parts of the Coast 

 of South America. They are of rude growth, usually with a 

 flattened shoulder below the sutures. 



B. COCHLIDIUM, Kiener. PL 5, fig. 73; PL 6, figs. 76-81. 



Yellowish white, sometimes with two obscure bands of longi- 

 tudinally disposed chestnut-brown flames; whorls sometimes 

 decidedly shouldered, and the shoulder defined l)y a somewhat 

 corded ridge. Length, 1*5-3 inches. 



Brazil to Patagonia ; on the Pacific Coast, north to Peru. 



I do not agree with Deshayes and Reeve that Kiener's species 

 is different from that of Chemnitz, and therefore I do not adopt 

 Deshayes' name B. gradata: still, as Chemnitz was not a binom- 

 inal writer I cannot cite him as authority for the species. The 

 fact is that B. cochlidium is of rude, frequently distorted growth, 

 and a collection of specimens exhibits many forms. The figure 

 of cochlid'tum given by Reeve, as exhibiting the. type of the 

 species is but slightly shouldered, and large as it is, is not adult 

 (fig. 76); Kiener's figure is also given (fig. 73). B. gradata , 

 Desh., is represented by figure 77, from Reeve's Iconica, 7^. 

 Lamarckii, Kiener (fig. 78), is another form which is scarcely 

 shouldered, and other intermediate forms are shown in B. Pay- 

 tense, Val. (fig. 79), and B. sqtialida, King (fig. 80). A remark- 

 ably distorted shell, called by Gmelin Buc. labyrinthum (fig. 81), 

 very probably belongs here. 



