12 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
slightly angular whirls, the two or three lowest, crowned with 
a row of elongated, solid, pointed tubercles, pretty near to each 
other ; the tubercles of the upper whirls are less apparent. 
The aperture is yellowish, ovate ; base pretty strongly emar- 
ginated; lip thin, arched, marked internally by two transverse 
brown bands, which are very apparent externally. 
Length 1 inch 6 lines. Width 8 lines. 
Inhabits the coasts of Newfoundland.°® 
This pretty species is very remarkable for the tubercles or 
spines which project from the whirls of the spire, and which 
are particularly prominent upon the lowest. It has great resem- 
blance to the preceding in its form, but it 1s easily distinguished 
by its different size, the Buccinum moniliferum being much 
smaller. 
12: BUCCINUM GLOBULOSUM, Nozis. The Globular Bucci- 
num. 
(Collect. Mass.) 
Pl. X. fig. 33. : 
B. testé ovatd, ventricosd, levi, violaced, basi larga fascid albescente ; 
apertura dilatata, ovaliformi ; columella flavescente ; labro intis rubescente. 
Shell ovate, smooth, ventricose, spire formed of six slightly 
convex whirls; the lowest very large, slightly canaliculated ; 
the coloring is of a deep violet and oftentimes of a yellowish ash 
color, with a small white band which borders the base of each 
whirl of the spire. ‘There exists also at the base of the shell, 
a large band of a grayish white color ; upon some specimens 
longitudinal whitish lines are seen, which are the vestiges of 
the several additions to the shell. Aperture large and ovular. 
The columella is strongly arched, and upon all its length is 
3 Specimens of both the cochlidium and moniliferum are.in my cabinet, 
found at Rio Janeiro, and I cannot but think the above locality is erro- 
neous.—-TR. 
