GENUS BUCCINUM. 15 
76. BUCCINUM CUVIERI, Pavr. Cuvier’s Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass.) Payr., Cat. de la Corse, p. 163, pl. 8, 
fig. 17-18. 
Pl. XX, fig. 74, 75, var. A, 76, var. B. 
B. testa parva, ovato-conica, nitida, pellucida, acuta, luteo-albida, longi- 
trorsim tenuiter plicata, transverse striata; anfractibus convexiusculis, 
margine superiori albis, fusco-castaneis, aut fusco-cerulescentibus ; aper- 
turd albé ; labro dextro crasso, intus striato. 
Shell small, ovate, conical, rather shining, pointed ; spire 
formed of six or seven indistinct whirls, often ornamented with 
longitudinal folds, which are rarely continued to the base of 
the lowest whirl, and which are crossed by very fine and 
slightly marked transverse strie. Aperture white; right lip 
thick, white externally, and denticulated within. Columella 
smooth, with two guttules at the base. The coloring of the 
shell is very various. ‘The ground is generally of a yellowish 
white; the transverse strie are accompanied with very fine 
lines, white and of a red bay color; reddish, or bluish brown 
spots, intersected with white, form zones upon the upper part 
of each whirl. At the base, and the middle of the lowest, the 
brown lines are more marked. 
Length 6 lines. Width 3 lines. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, the coasts of Southern France, 
and of Corsica, where it is very common. 
This Buccinum varies so much in its coloring, that some 
authors, deceived by the different shades of the shell, have di- 
vided it into several species. Payraudeau, in his Catalogue des 
Coquilles de la Corse, pl. 8, fig. 15, 16, has established a species 
under the name of Buccinum Ferussact, the greater part of the 
characters of which belong equally to that which he had already 
called Buccinum Cuvier?, the same we have just described. In 
the Ferrusaci of that author, the longitudinal folds, which are 
prolonged upon the lowest whirl, are more prominent, the color 
