96 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
name of Trrepra granulosa, a variety of the Buccinum vittatum, 
to which Chemnitz, who perceived its relation to this last spe- 
cies, had assigned its proper place in his great work, pl. 188, 
fig. 1816, under the title of Variety of Buccinum vittatum. 
Deshayes, in Bellanger’s Voyage to the East Indies, has given, 
pl. 2, fig. 3 and 4, as a new species, under the name of Bucct- 
Num melanoides, a shell altogether similar to the variety of Chem- 
nitz; the only difference which I have been able to discover is 
found in the spire, which is a little more inflected. 
27. BUCCINUM SENTICOSUM, Linn. The File Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) Lasr., pl. 967, fig. 22. 
PL. 1X, fig. 31. 
B. testa ovato-oblonga, subturrita, scabrd, longitudinaliter plicata, striis 
transversis elevatis cancellata, rufescente aut rubescente, inferné zona rufo- 
rubente cincta ; plicis per totam longitudinem denticulato-asperis ; colu- 
mella plicata aut biplicata. 
Shell ovate, oblong, rough, slightly turreted, its entire sur- 
face apparently armed with small spires; spire pointed, com- 
posed of nine or ten rather convex whirls, furnished with 
longitudinal folds or ribs, somewhat distant, and formed by 
the elevations of transverse striz, which are also cut trans- 
versely by other striz elevated and resembling sharp scales ; 
these are a little more prominent upon the convexity of the 
longitudinal ribs than in their interstices, and it is their pro- 
longation in this part, which causes’ them to resemble small 
spines. Its color is reddish, varied with fawn-colored or clear 
chestnut-brown spots ; oftentimes the lower whirl presents, 
towards its middle, a transverse brown band, the half only of 
which can be seen upon the upper whirls, the whole length of 
the sutures. ‘The aperture is whitish, ovate, elongated, nar- 
rowed towards its base; the right lip has a slight obliquity, 
relatively to the axis of the shell; it is slightly crenulated 
upon the lip, and furnished interiorly with fifteen or sixteen 
transverse striz which are continued even to the depth of the 
