GENUS BUCCINUM. 51 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coasts of Sicily, and the 
Indian Seas. 
The name of this little shell indicates its beauty ; it is colored 
in a delightful manner. It was described by Blainville from a 
specimen in the collection of Deshayes, which was found in the 
Mediterranean. M. Woldemar possesses in his, several speci- 
mens of the same species, which were brought to him from the 
Indian Ocean. These are a little more elongated, the longitu- 
dinal folds, and the transverse strie are very distinct, whilst in 
some from the Mediterranean the folds and the strie are very 
indistinct. In this case they resemble very much the B. dermes- 
toideum of Lamarck. I think the shell figured by Turton in the 
Zoblogical Journal, t. 2, pl. 18, fig. 8, under the name of Pur- 
PURA picta, p. 365, should be referred to this species. 
ol. BUCCINUM DERMESTOIDEUM, Lam. The Dermestoid 
Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) 
Pl. XXV, fig. 100. 
B. testa parva, ovato-oblonga, levi, nitida, albida, lineis rufis reticulata ; 
anfractibus convexiusculis, fascid rubrA ad margines albo-crenata cinctis ; 
spira obtusiuscula ; apertura angustata. 
Shell small, ovate, oblong, smooth, polished; spire some- 
what obtuse, composed of five or six slightly convex whirls, of 
a whitish color, and covered with small, ocellated, reddish 
points, forming an indistinct net-work ; the sutures are sur- 
rounded above by a small band of alternating white and red 
spots, while the lower part is marked by another brown band, 
sometimes broken by distant white spots. The middle of the 
lowest whirl is surrounded by a sub-crenulated red band, inter- 
rupted by white spots; at the base of the whirl are seen 
transverse strie, anda small brown band. Aperture ovate ; 
right lip thin, and slightly denticulated. 
Length 4 lines. Width 2 lines. 
