Class VI. BUCCINUM. WHELK. 267 



GENUS XXIIL BUCCINUM. WHELK, 



Animal, a Slug. 

 Shell spiral, gibbose. 



Aperture ovate, ending in a short canal, 

 bending to the right. 



Lin. Stjst. 1202. 'No. 467. 



List. Conch, tab. q65. 



1. LAPIL 



Gm. Lin. 3484. 



Lin. Tr. viil. 135. 



LOS. 

 ynassy. 



Vaun. Suec. No. 2l6l. 



Mont. Test. Br. 23g. id. 



List. Angl. tab. Vn.Jig. 5, 6. 



Sup. 104. 





B. with about five spires, often obsolete ; inside 

 of the mouth slightly toothed. A very strong 

 thick shell, of a whitish color. 



Varieties, yellow ; or fasciated with yellow 

 on a wiiite ground ; or sulcated spirally, and 

 sometimes reticulated. 



SeeJigu7TS I. 1. 1, tab. Ixxv. 



In many, which I suspect to be shells not 

 arrived at full growth, the lip is thin and cul- 

 trated. Length near an inch and a half. 



Inhabits (in vast abundance) rocks near low- 

 water mark. 



This is one of the English shells that pro- 

 duces the purple dye, analogous to the purpura 



