CATALOGUE—SHELLS. 553 
purple spots more or less obsolete : the old specimens are sometimes 
of a dull yellowish white. A specimen is deposited in the British 
Museum. 
The young shells of this species are of a whitish brown, with 
darker coloured strig. They are very fragile and semi-trans- 
parent. 
32. BuLinus sorpipus.—No. 803 MSS. 
B. testd pyramidali, transversim striatd, fuscd ; anfractu basalt ad 
suturam subalbido, lined subcentricd pallidd ; labu vix reflear 
margine albo ; long. 14% ; lat. $ poll. 
Habitat ad Brasiliam (Rio de Janeiro). Mus. nost. 
33. Buxinus mMULTICOLOR.*—No. 791 MSS. 
B. testd ovato-pyramidali, longitudinaliter et transversim creberrimé 
substriatd, luteo-fuscd maculis albis et purpureo-atris fucata ; 
labio roseo subreflexo ; columelld subalbidd, aperturd intus subatro- 
purpurea ; long. 1,5, ; lat. #; ; poll. 
Habitat ad Brasiliam. Mus. nost., Geo. Sowerby. 
33.* BuULINUS ROSACEUS. 
B. testd ovato-oblongd, scabriusculd ; apice et anfractibus primis, 
rosaceis, ceteris viridi-fuscis ; labro albo ; suturis crenulatis seu 
plicatis ; long. 23; lat. 1 ; poll. 
Habitat ad oras Americe meridionalis (Chile). Mus. Brit., 
nost., Brod., Geo. Sowerby, Sc. 
Soon after the return of the expedition, my friend Mr. Broderip, 
to whose inspection Lieutenant Graves had submitted his collec- 
tion, observing symptoms of life in some of the shells of this species, 
took means for reviving the inhabitants from their dormant state, 
and succeeded. After they had protruded their bodies, they were 
placed upon some green leaves, which they fastened upon and ate 
greedily. These animals had been in this state for seventeen or 
eighteen months, and five months subsequently another was found 
alive in my collection, so that this last had been nearly two years 
* Whilst this sheet was printing, the September number of the Annales 
des Sciences made its appearance in England, containing a description 
of the above shell by M. Sander Rang, accompanied by an excellent 
figure (Annales des Sciences Naturelles, September 1831, p. 55, pl. 3, 
f.1). It is there named Heliv multicolor. In my description I have 
considered it to be a Budinus, but its specific name has been altered to 
that given to it by M. Rang. 
