GENUS BUCCINUM. 33 
ornamented with numerous transverse, rather broad folds, of a 
deeper color; the furrows shallow ; spire obtuse and rounded. 
The whirls are convex, and four in number, the lowest much 
larger than all the others united. The aperture is wide, oval, 
of a bright brown; right lip thin, striated internally ; columella 
rounded. % 
Length 16 lines. Width 9 lines., 
Inhabits Table Bay at the Cape of Good Hope, where M. 
Quoy supposes it to be common, by the fragments he there 
met with. 
To Quoy and Gaimard we are indebted for this new species, 
which may be easily confounded with the Purpura cruentata of 
Lamarck, as has been well remarked by these learned natural- 
ists; but it is more round, and more ventricose than the last ; 
the transverse strie are larger and less numerous; the aperture 
is less dilated, and the canal a little less elongated. 
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34. BUCCINUM ACICULATUM, Lam. The Needle-shaped Buc- 
cinum. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) eae, Faune Frang., pl. 6, c., 
fig. 1. 
Pl. XVI, fig. 55. 
B. testa elongato-subulata, basi transversim striata, colore varia, diversi- 
modé fasciata aut zonata ; anfractibus longitudinaliter plicatis, noduloso- 
erenulatis, ultimo spird breviore. 
Shell elongated, narrow, turreted, formed of nine or ten 
very distinct whirls, slightly convex, ornamented with a great 
number of ribs formed like folds, subnodulous, approximate, 
numerous, and slightly raised upon the lowest whirl ; these 
ribs are apparent only at the upper part, whilst the base is 
provided with transverse striz, easily distinguished; aperture — 
ovate, strongly notched ; right lip thin, sharp, rounded at the 
lower extremity ; columella a little bent. The general color 
Buccinum. Cc 
