30 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
small, very oblique fold; the lip is straight, reddish, furnished 
internally with numerous transverse strie. 
Length 11 lines. Width 5 lines. 
Inhabits the coasts of Malabar, and the island of Vanikoro. 
It was brought from the latter place by Quoy and Gaimard. 
Lately, and almost at the same time, this shell has been de- 
scribed by three authors, under three different names: the first, 
Wood, in his catalogue, has called it Buccinum textum, pl. 28, 
fig. 113. Deshayes, describing it in the Voyage aux Indes 
Orientales of Bellanger, gave it the name of Buccinum Blain- 
villit ; and, lastly, Quoy and Gaimard, at the same time, figured 
it in their second Voyage autour du monde, pl. 32, fig. 30-31, 
under the name of Buccinum cancellatum. 
31. BUCCINUM COSTATUM, Quoy et Gam. The Ribbed Buc- 
cinum. 
(Collect. du Museum.) Voyage de Astrolabe, pl. 30, fig. 
| 17-18. 
Pl. X1, fig. 36 et 37. 
B. testa ovato-conica, albo-grised, longitudinaliter costulata, transversim 
tenuissime striata; spird acuta ; anfractibus convexis, depressis, et superné 
angulatis, in medio carinatis; apertura ovaliformi, castaned ; labro dextro 
latiusculo, tenui, intus striato. 
Shell ovate, elongated, of an ashy gray, often covered with 
reddish points. ‘The spire is pointed, attenuated at its two 
extremities, composed of seven convex whirls, flattened, and 
angular at their upper part, ornamented in nearly all their 
length with longitudinal folds or ribs, tuberculated at their 
summit, and crowning the whirls. ‘These ribs rarely extend 
to the base of the lowest whirl. There may be observed, 
besides, upon the exterior surface, numerous transverse striz, 
very fine and very close, which, at the base of the lowest 
whirl, are changed to wrinkles more or less numerous. ‘The 
aperture is ovate, its interior of an ashy violet, the oblique 
