62 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
62. BUCCINUM HIRTUM, Nosis. The Rough Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass.) 
Pl. XIX, fig. 72. 
B. testa ovato-conica, subturrité, rufescente, fuscis lineolis transversim 
maculata; spird acuta ; costulis eminentibus longitudinaliter ornata, ultimo 
anfractu etate evanescentibus; apertura albA, subrotundata, emarginata, 
superneé angustata ; labro dextro crasso, extis marginato. 
Shell ovate, conical, subturreted, spire pointed, and sutures 
deep, ornamented in its whole extent, with projecting longitu- 
dinal ribs, slightly oblique, pointed at their summit, raised and 
continued upon the lowest whirls which they crown. ‘These 
whirls are more convex. ‘The ribs of the lowest gradually 
disappear with age. At the base of this whirl are observed 
also ridges, and very prominent granulations. ‘The aperture 
is subrotund, white, emarginated and narrowed at the top by 
a transverse fold of the left lip, and by an angle of the right 
lip. Right lip thick, accompanied at its external part, by a 
very apparent margin, and furnished internally with numerous 
fine strie. 'The external color of this species exhibits a red- 
dish ground, with irregular spots, and transverse lines of a 
deeper tint. ‘The band which surrounds the middle of the 
lowest whirl is much wider and darker colored. 
Length 1 inch. Width 6 lines. 
Inhabits the coasts of New Holland, the Isle of Tonga- 
Tabou. 
This singular shell appears to be intermediate between the 
Buccinum crenulatum and the Port Jackson Buccinum. It 
resembles the first in its form, and the second in its coloring. 
