GASTEKOl’ODA PECTINIBKANCIIIATA. 
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Mitba, Lam. 
Tlie aperture oblon^, with a few large plic® on the columella, the 
one nearest the s])ire being the largest ; the spire usually pointed and 
elongated. Several species are brilliantly spotted with red on a 
white ground* * * § . The foot of the animal is small ; the tentacula arc 
of a moderate length, Avith the eyes on the side, near their inferior 
third ; the siphon also is of a moderate length, but it frequently pro- 
trudes a proboscis longer than its shell. 
Cancellaria, Lam. 
The last whorl ventricose ; aperture ample and round, the internal 
margin forming a plate on the columella. The spire is salient and 
pointed, and the surface of the shell marked with decussating sulcif. 
The 
Buccinum, Liu. I 
Comprises all the shells furnished with an emargination or a short 
canal inflected to the left, and in which the columella is destitute of 
plicae. 
Brugieres has divided them into the four genera of Bucciniivi, 
I^urpura, Cassis, and Terebra, part of which have been again subdi- 
vided by Messrs de Lamarck and Montfort. The 
Buccinum, Bnuj. 
Includes the emarginated shells without any canal, whose general 
form, as well as that of the aperture, is oval. The animals — all such 
as are known, are deprived of the veil on the head, but are furnished 
with a proboscis, two separated tentacula, on the external side of 
which are .the eyes, and a horny operculum. Their siphon extends 
out of the shell. 
The name of Buccinum is especially applied by M. de Lamarck to 
those in Vhich the columella is convex and naked, and the margin 
without plicee or varix. Their foot is moderate, their proboscis long 
and thick, and their i^eiiis, frequently, excessively large §. In the 
* Such are Vot. episcopalis, List., 839, 60; — Vol. pap(dis, Ib. 67 ; and 840,* 68 ; 
— Vol. caj-dijialis, 838, 65. Add, Vol. patriarchalis ; — Vol. perl ussa, 822, 40 ; — Vol. 
vulpecula, Martini, IV, cxlviii, 1366 ; — Vol. plicaria. List., 820, 37 ; — Vol. sangia- 
sv.ga, List., 821, 8; — Vol. caffra, Martini, IV, cxlviii, 1369, 1370 ; — Vol. acus, Id., 
clvii, 1493, 1494; — Vol. scal/ricula, Id., cxiix, 1388, 1389; — Vol. maculosa, Ib., 
1377 ] — Vol. nodulosa, Ib., 1385; — Vol. spadicea. Id., cl, 1392 ; — V. aurantia, Ib., 
i. 393 , 1394 ; — V. decussaia, 1395 ; — V. tunicida, 1376. 
'b f'ohita cancellata, L., Adaiis., A’lII, 16; — Vol. reticulata, 830, 25, &c. — Sow- 
crb., Gen. of Shells, No. V. 
J M. de Blainville makes a family of his Paracephalojdtora Didica Siphonobranchiata 
of this great genus, which he calls the Enotomostoma. 
§ Buccinum undulatum, L., List., 662, 14 ; — Bucc. glaciulc, L. ; — B. anglicum, 
List., 963, 17 ; — B. j-orccltim. Martini, IV. cxxvi, 1213, 1211 ; — B. leevissimum, Id., 
cxxvii, 1215, 1216 ; — B. igneam, Ib., 1217 ; — B. carinalum, Phips. Voy., XII, 2; — 
B. solutum, Naturi.,XVI, ii, 3, 4 ; — B. strigosum, Gin., 'No. 108, Bonan., Ill, 38 ; — 
B. glaberrimvm, hlartini, IV, exxv, 1177, 1 182 ; — B. strigosum, Ib. 1183, 1188; — 
B, obtusum, Ib., 1193 ; — B. corotiatum, CXXI, 1115, 1116. 
