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3. Shell moderately strong, (or sometimes rather thin), 
short, and ovate: the whorls flattish, and the un- 
dulations obsolete : epidermis variable, sometimes 
wanting: inside deep purplish brown or yellow, 
rarely white. At low-water mark, generally 
among rocks. 
Buccinum carinatum of Turton, an accidental variety of this 
species, has been found at Sunderland by the Rey. Mr. Law ; as 
has also another accidental variety, or lusus, agreeing pretty 
nearly with the Buccinum acuminatum of Broderip. The speci- 
mens were presented by Mr. Law to the Newcastle Museum. 
2. B. ovum, Turton. 
Buccinum ovum, Turt. in Zool. Journ. 11. 366, t. 13, f 9. 
A dead and rather worn specimen of this shell has been got 
from the fishing boats by Mr. W. King. 
62. NASSA, Lamarck. 
1. N. neticunata, Linn. 
Buccinum reticulatum, Mont. Test. Brit. 240. 
From the fishing boats, Cullercoats.—J. H. F. Whitburn.— 
Rev. G. C. Abbes. Sunderland.—Mr. W. Backhouse. 
The fresh state of some of Mr. Abbes’s specimens shew them to 
have been either living or recently dead shells; but as this 
species is common in ballast, it must be received with caution. 
It is in Sir C. Sharp’s Hartlepool list. 
2. N. rvorassata, Jill. 
Buccinum macula, Mont. Test. Brit. 241, t. 8, f. 4. 
On the rocky parts of the coast at and beyond low-water mark, 
common. ‘The shell is abundant on most of our sandy shores. 
Famity. Cypraipa, Gray. 
63. CYPRAAA, Linneus. 
1. C. Huropma, Mont. 
Cyprea Europea, Mont. Test. Brit. Supp. 88. 
The shell of this species is thrown up very plentifully on our 
sands, and it is occasionally found alive, though rarely, among 
the rocks at spring tides. Its habitat appears to be a little 
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