MURICID^E. 65 



BUSYCON— Bolton. (1798.) 

 FULGUR.— Montf. (1810.) 



BUSYCON CARICA. — Con. 

 Plate XI. Pig. 1. 



Murex carica, Gmel, Lister's Conch., pi. 880. 



Pyrula carica, Lam., Ency. Meth., pi. 436, fig. 2. 



Pyrula carica, Lam.. Woods' Index, pi. 26, fig. 83. 



Pyrula auruana, Lam., An. sans Vert., Vol. 7, p. 138. 



Pyrula carica, Ravenel, Cat. Coll. Shells, p. 14. 



Pyrula carica, Adams, Boston Jour. Nat. Hist., Vol. 2, p. 269. 



Pyrula carica, Gould, Invert. Mass., p. 296. 



Pyrula carica, Be Kay, Zool. New- York, Art. Mollusca, p. 141, pi. ix, figs. 192, 193. 



Pyrula carica, Stimpson, Shells of New-England, p. 47. 



Pyrula carica, L. R. Gibbes, Tuomey's Geol. So. Ca., appendix, p. xx. 



Fulgur carica, Con., Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 7, p. 319. 



Fulgur carica, Con., Cat. Shells Tert. Form., p. 2. 



Busycon carica, Con., Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci., Vol. 8, p. 30. 



Busycon carica, Tuomey 4- Holmes, Pleiocene Foss. So. Ca., p. 145, pi. xxix, fig. 1. 



Description. Shell pyriform, ventricose, thick, ponderous, transversely and finely 

 striated ; spire not turrited ; suture not channeled, but having a series of triangular, com- 

 pressed, tubercles above ; larger ones around the prominent part of body whorl ; outer lip 

 simple, sharp; pillar lip flexuous, concave above. — T. $ H. 



This shell is found in the Meiocene of Maryland, and in the Pleiocene of North and South 

 Carolina. Is common in a recent state on this Atlantic coast and often attains a great size. 



Plate XI. Fig. 1, Natural size. 



Locality. Simmons'. Museum, College of Charleston; Cabinet F. S. H. 



BUSYCON PERVBKSUM. — Con. 



Plate XI. Fig. 2 



Buccinum ampullaceis ad sinistram convolutis, Lister, Conch., t. 907, 908. 

 Pyrula perversa, Lam., An. sans Vert., Vol. 9, p. 506. 

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