GENUS BUCCINUM. + 15 
canal short, aperture pretty large, oval, right lip marked 
throughout its whole extent by deep violet colored lines, 
crossed by white lines. The columella is smooth, and of a 
bright yellow color, as well as the edge of the right lip. Ex- 
ternally, the ground color is of a greenish brown, banded with 
black. These transverse strie are definite and at regular dis- 
tances ; six or eight appear on the lowest whirl. The opercu- 
lum is very small, unguiculated, pointed, and ofa reddish brown. 
Length 15 lines. Width 7 lines. 
Inhabits the Bays around New Zealand. 
This Buccinum is common in the Bays dividing New Zea- 
land; it is found at low tide among the stones on the shore. 
Lamarck had established a species under this name; but the 
specimen which he described was a young Buccinum testudi- 
neum, the oblong points of which also form transverse and in- 
terrupted lines, but less continued and less distant than those of 
the Buccinum lineolatum. We give a figure of it in pl. VIII, 
fig. 25. 
The name of lineolatum was given to this species by Quoy and 
Gaimard, who brought it from New Zealand. 
15. BUCCINUM DELALANDII, Nozis. Delalande’s Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass. et Mus.) Cuemn. pl. 152, fig. 1455. 
} Pl. V, fig. 14. 
B. testa ovato-oblonga, subturriculaté, cinerea, transversim tenuissimé 
striata, fasciis longitudinalibus undulatis; spird acutd; apertura ovato- 
oblonga; labro levi, albo, dilatato, intus striato, rubescente ; epidermi 
virescente. 
Shell ovate, elongated, subturrited; external surface of a 
bluish ash color, marked with very fine, close strie ; it is also 
ornamented with longitudinal undulated bands or flames, form- 
ed by lines more or less approximated; epidermis greenish ; 
spire slightly pointed, composed of six whirls, which are 
