84 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
86. BUCCINUM RETUSUM, Lam. The Blunt Buccinum. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) CuHemn., Conch., t. 153, fig. 1465. 
| Pl. XXIV, fig. 94. 
B. testa ovato-abbreviata, transversim minutissimé striata, rufescente 
aut violacea, varie maculata, albo fasciata; spira brevi, turgidd, apice 
retusa; apertura alba, inferne dilatata ; labro intis striato. 
Shell ovate, slightly cylindrical, blunted at its summit ; 
spire short, flattened, composed of five whirls; the two last 
much more swollen, and covered upon their whole surface with 
very fine and very close transverse strie; suture very ap- 
parent, and a little canaliculated ; aperture white, ovate, nar- 
rowed at its upper part, dilated inferiorly; right lip thin, 
ornamented interiorly with numerous transverse strie; colu- 
mella smooth, arcuated at base, covered throughout its whole 
length with’ the left lip, the base of which is a little thicker. 
The surface of this shell is reddish or violet-colored, with 
wide, reddish spots. It is ornamented at the upper part of the 
whirls, and along the suture, with a white band, alternating 
with irregular deeper spots. 
Length 11 lines. Width 8 lines. 
Inhabits 
This shell so much resembles the preceding that. we have 
brought them together ; the only difference, which can be ob- 
served, is in the form of the lowest whirl but one, which is more 
convex, and larger; it has also finer and more numerous trans- 
verse striz. 
