52 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coast of Agde, and of 
Corsica. 
This little shell is one of the most remarkable of the genus, 
on account of its delicacy of texture, and of its coloring. Its 
ornamented bands, interrupted by spots of a regular form, render 
it charming to the eye. 
52. BUCCINUM LACTEUM, Noszis. The Milky Buccinum. 
(Collect. WotpEmar.) 
Pl. XXVIII, fig. 67. 
B. testa ovato-conica, parva, tenui, levi, diaphano-albé ; suturis promi- 
nulis; anfractibus convexis, basi obscuro-albidé maculatis; ultimo spira 
majore, basi striato, maculis distantibus ad medium cincto ; apertura ovata ; 
labro dextro intus denticulato, extis crassato. 
Shell small, pretty thin, ovate, conical, smooth, of a diapha- 
nous white ; sutures indistinctly apparent; spire composed of - 
six convex whirls, ornamented at their base with spots of a 
duller white; the lowest whirl as large as all the others, 
striated at base, and surrounded, towards the middle, with 
small, distant spots, articulated by a reddish line ; aperture 
ovate ; right lip denticulated within, and thickened outwardly, 
even to the base of the shell. 
Leneth 4 lines. Width 2 lines. 
Inhabits the Indian Seas. 
Risso, in his work upon the productions of Southern Europe, 
gives, under the name of PLANAxis levigata, page 175, number 
448, the description of a species which seems to approach the 
B. lacteum. He notices it as having been found upon the coasts 
of Provence in the Mediterranean. 
The shell which we have just described is very nearly allied 
to the B. dermestoideum. It differs, however, in this, that it is 
never folded exteriorly, and it is always of a remarkable white. 
