new species of Bucciuum. 45 



Tab. III. fig. 1, 2. 



Shell white, or brownish-white, of a conical-subulate shape, tapering 

 gradually from the angle of the body-whorl to the acuminated apex. 

 The whole of the ten whorls are ringed with elevated striae, which, toge- 

 ther with those which are intermediate and less elevated, have a granular 

 appearance. The epidermis is brown. The mouth is milk-white, with 

 the edge of the lip a little reflected, and the pillar strongly marked with 

 one plait in the advanced stage of growth. The basal furrow is deep, 

 and the canal large. 



This fine and interesting addition to our British MoUusca was dredged 

 off Torquay by a fisherman, in a boat wherein was Viscount Kilcoursie, 

 the late proprietor of the shell. In its outline it approaches to Terebra. 

 It is very different from B. glaeiale, with which species it was con- 

 founded by some of those who had an opportunity of seeing the shell in 

 Lord Kilcoursie's cabinet. The animal was alive when it was brought 

 into the boat, and it is very nmch to be regretted that it was not pre- 

 served with the operculum. 



I have seen two other specimens of this shell. One much younger, 

 in which the angle of the body-whorl is not yet developed, and the plait 

 on the pillar is only just beginning to appear ; though the other charac- 

 ters are as clearly marked as they are in the figured specimen. The 

 other, a very young shell, is much distorted by a mal-formatlon of the 

 whorls at the suture ; but the general contour and character of the spe- 

 cies is preserved. 



BUCCINUM FUSIFORME. 



B. testd ovato-oblongd, fusiformi, alba, anfractihus 7 ventricosis, Ion- 

 f/itudinaliter creherrime costatis et transversim striatis, cosiis sub- 

 granulosis ; columelld Icevi ; long. \\, Int. ^, unc. 

 Hub. in Mari Hibornico. 



Mus. Bennett, J. Sowerby. 



Tab. III. fig. 3. 



Shell ovate-oblong, fusiform, white : whorls seven, ventricose, with 

 numerous longitudinal subgranulose ribs, crossed by frequent transrerse 

 striae. The ribs cease upon the lower part of the body-whorl, leaving 

 the base simply striated transversely. The pillar is smooth. The speci- 

 men from which the description was taken was found by Mr. J, Hum- 



