a0 GENUS BUCCINUM. 
92. BUCCINUM MURICATUM, Quoy et Gaim. The Spinous 
Buccionum. 
(Collect. Mass.) Voy. de [ Astr., pl. 82, fig. 32-33. 
' Pl. XXVUL, fig. 110. 
B. testa parva, ovato-globosa, luted, apice acuta, longitudinaliter plicata, 
transversim echinata; apertura alba; labro dextro crasso, intts striato. 
Shell small, ovate, subglobular, spined, spire conical and 
pointed, composed of six or seven whirls; the lowest much 
larger than all the others; presenting on its exterior longitu- 
dinal folds, upon which are regularly disposed pointed, conical 
tubercles, which are of the same color as the rest of ‘the shell. 
The first row of these spines is situated immediately beneath 
the suture ; the last one obliquely intersects the base of the 
shell. ‘Transverse strie, pretty fine and numerous, are observ- 
ed between each of the rows of the spies. Aperture white, 
semilunar. Right lip thick, furnished internally with fine 
strie ; columella nearly straight, covered by the left lip which 
forms a callosity. ‘The color is uniform, of a white fawn, 
sometimes pale orange. 
Length 7 lines. Width 4 lines. 
Inhabits Cartaret Harbor at New Ireland. . 
This little shell, which is quite rare, in many respects resem- 
bles the Bucctnum subspinosum; only it is a little more elon- 
gated, and the spires are more numerous. These two species 
have the aspect of some RicinuLz. 
93. BUCCINUM SUBSPINOSUM, Lam. The Sub-spinous Bue- 
cinum. 
(Collect. Mass. Lam.) 
Pl. XXVI, fig. 103. 
B. testd parva, ovato-conicd, longitudinaliter plicato-tuberculata, trans- 
versim striata, griseo-fuscescente; tuberculis acutis, subspinosis ; apertura 
rotundata ; labro intus striato. 
Shell ovate, conical, spire composed of six slightly convex 
