GENUS BUCCINUM. 5 
several specimens of different ages and sexes, is brought, I think, 
from the Northern Seas. It appears to me to be very nearly like 
the Buccinum Humphreysianum of Bennett, (Zodlogical Jour- 
nal, vol. 1, p. 398, tab. 22). Nevertheless, I have been unwilling 
decisively to unite it to that, because it wants several of the 
characters assigned by M. Bennett to the individual which he has 
described. That which I have figured, has the lowest whirl of 
the shell much shorter and more ventricose; the strie, which 
entirely cover the shell, are closer; this also does not exhibit the 
bands which appear upon the lowest whirl of the Buccinum 
Humphreysianum. Among the number of specimens which I 
have examined, was found a young one which approached nearer 
to the figure of the Buccinum Humphreysianum. I suppose 
that the difference which exists between these two species, is 
caused only by age or sex. 
3. BUCCINUM LAMARCKII, Nozis. Lamarck’s Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass.) 
Pl. Ill. fig. 6. 
B. test& ovato-conicé, levigatd, nitidd,{ luteo-rufescente, flammulis 
spadiceo-rufis; anfractibus superné subangulatis, supremis obsoleté plica- _ 
‘tis; apertura ovata, levi, albidi; labro margine acuto. 
Shell ovate-conical, elongated, smooth, shining, of a reddish 
yellow color, scattered over with longitudinal flames of a 
brown red ; a transverse band of the same color surrounds the 
base of the shell; spire elongated, composed of eight whirls 
slightly angular at their upper part, and very slightly convex ; 
the first whirls are plaited longitudinally ; aperture ovate, 
whitish, strongly emarginated at its base, lip thin; columella 
smooth and yellowish. 
Length 3 inches. Width 1 inch 3 lines. 
Inhabits ° 
2 T have in my cabinet, a specimen of this shell, which was found on the 
shore at Santos, Brazil, by my brother, Mr. Robert B, Storer.—Tr. 
