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BUCCINUM, L. Lam. 



B. *ornatum. Shell sub turbinated, with about 

 two bands of arched scales. 



Inhabits the coast of East Florida. 



Cabinet of Mr. William Hyde. 



Shell subturbinated, with numerous revolving striae 

 and intermediate grooves ; whitish cinereous, with 

 rufous bands, and transverse, irregular wrinkles, and 

 obsolete undulations separated by somewhat rugged 

 incisures ; near the base is a band of ten or twelve 

 elevated arched scales, disappearing in the aperture ; 

 whirls flattened above the shoulder, and armed in 

 that part with undulated lamellse, which on the 

 shoulder are elevated into prominent concave spines ; 

 spire prominent ; whirls transversely undulated, the 

 arched scales disappearing towards the tip ; aperture 

 effuse ; throat varied with pale green and yellowish, 

 the rufous bands being very distinct ; umbilicus none. 



Length 4? inches. Aperture 2 3-4 inches. Spire 

 If inch. 



This fine coronated shell, seems to agree better 

 with the descriptions of B. armigerum and bezoar, 

 than with those of any other species, as far as I have 

 been able to ascertain. To the latter it seems to be 

 more closely related, with Argenville's figure of 

 which it corresponds in the form and position of the 

 basal band of scales, excepting that it has this band 

 far more oblique ; that figure however is much less 

 elongated than our shell, and it appears to have a 



