BUCCINUM DONOVANI. 107 



Buccinum Humphreysianum, Bennett. Plate X, figs. 14, 15. 



1825. Buccinum Humplireysianum, Bennett, Zool. Jouru., vol. i, p. 398, pi. xxii, fig. 1. 



1853. Buccinum Humplireysianum, Forbes and Hanley, Brit. Moll., vol. iii, p. 410, pi. ex, fig. 1. 



1862. Buccinum Htcmphreysianum, Jeffreys, Brit. Conch., vol. iv, p. 293, pi. Ixxxiii, fig. 1. 



1873-75. Buccinum Humphreysianum, Seguenza, Boll. R. Com. GeoL, vol, iv, p. 348, 1873 ; vol. v, 

 p. 278, 1874; vol. vi, p. 342, 1875. 



1878. Buccinum Humphreysianum, Gr. 0. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 26i, pi. xxv, figs. 7, 8. 



1883. Buccinum Humphreysianum., Kobelt, Martini uud Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., ed. 2, vol. iii (Bucci- 

 num), p. 56, pi. Ixxxv, figs. 2, 3. 



1887. Buccinum Humphreysianum, Kobelt, Icon, schalentrag. europ. Meeresconch., vol. i, p. 102, pi. 

 xviii, figs. 2, 3. 



Specific Characters. — Shell of meclinm size, thin, rather fragile, ovato-conical ; 

 whorls 6 — 7, slightly convex^ the last nearly three-fourths the total length; 

 ornamented by fine and inconspicuous spiral striae ; spire short, regularly tapering 

 to a blunt point ; suture distinct ; mouth oval, acutely angulate above ; outer lip 

 thin, rounded ; inner lip forming a very thin glaze ; pillar excavated ; canal open, 

 notched. 



Dimensions. — L. 36 mm. B. 18 mm. 



Blstribntion. — Recent : Shetland Islands, Hebrides ; Connemara (Valentia) 

 (110 fathoms), Bantry Bay, Cork; Bay of Biscay; Mediterranean; Norwegian 

 Coast, Finmark. 



Fossil : Waltonian Crag : Little Oakley. Upper Pliocene and 

 Pleistocene : Sicily. 



Bemarlis. — I have had for some time several damaged shells from Oakley 

 which I could not satisfactorily identify. Receiving on one occasion, however, 

 some specimens of B. Humphreysianum from Cork, it fortunately happened that 

 one of them, evidently corresponding to the former, was similarly imperfect. 

 Locard reports this species from deep water off the coast of Provence, and 

 Seguenza gives it from all stages of the Pleistocene and Upper Pliocene of Sicily. 



Buccinum Donovani, Gray (non Linne). Plate VII, fig. 7. 



1800. Buccinum glaciale, Donovan, Nat. Hist. Br. Shells, vol. v, pi. cliv. 



1827. Buccinum glaciale. Brown, Illust. Conch. Gt. Brit., pi. xlix, figs. 12, 13. 



1839. Buccinum Donovani, Cray, Zool. Beechey's Voyage, p. 128. 



1841-70. Buccinum Donovani, Gould, Eep. Inv. Mass., ed. 1, p. 304, fig. 208, 1841 ; ed. 2, p. 369, 



fig. 636, 1870. 

 1878. Buccinum Donovani (?), G. O. Sars, Moll. Eeg. Arct. Norv., p. 257, pi. xiii, fig. 11. 

 1883. Buccinum Donovani, Kobelt, Martini und Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., ed. 2, vol. iii (Buccinum), 



p. 40, pi. Ixxxii, fig. 5. 

 1912. Buccinum Donovani, Dautzenberg et Fischer, Camp. Scient. Pr. Monaco, vol. xxxvii (Mol- 



lusques), p. 124, pi. vii, fig. 11. 



