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so as to be far apart at their base. The male organ is very long, conical, and often exerted when the animal 
walks — it is placed near the back of the right tentacles. The operculum is small, thin, and rather thickened 
on the hinder edge. The shell is ovate, turreted, with a rather large mouth, having a broad canal in front, 
and the inner lip is rather expanded and thickened behind, where it is slightly spread out, which causes the 
sutures to be often callous. 
The animals are found crawling on the sand in the bays. They generally remain at the bottom of the 
water, and are easily caught alive with a bit of meat tied at the end of a string, as they immediately attach 
themselves to it. 
Quoy in the voyage of the Astrolabe has figured two species under the name of Buccinum — ( Bullia ) 
Icevissima, t. 31. f, 14 — 16, and {Bullia) achatina, t. 31. f 17. .• the former of these has the front of the foot 
rounded, and the latter has an elongated filament on each side in front. The animal also of Bullia Icevis 
is figured in Freycinet’s Voyage, and copied into Guerin, Iconographie, t. 17./. 5. 
Bullia armata. 
Shell ovate, conical, solid, white, with two broad brown bands ; spire conical, as long as the mouth, 
whorls rather convex, with a series of rather close conical tubercles near the suture, which has a callosity 
behind it. 
Inhab. 
Bullia polita. 
Shell ovate, turreted, pale brown, smooth, polished ; the spire acute, rather longer than the mouth ; the 
whorls rather convex, with a broad callous band near the suture, the last with close spiral stria in front of the 
canal ridge. Mouth ovate, lanceolate, inner lip rather callous behind, absorbed and concave in front, outer 
one slightly thickened. 
Inhab. 
Bullia turrita. 
Shell turreted, slender, pale, whitish, smooth, very obscurely concentrically striated, whorls convex, inner 
lip slightly thickened, front of the canal before the crbss sides spirally striated. 
Inhab. 
This species is nearly allied to Bullia achatina {Buccinum. achatina . Lam. Bnc. t. 400. /. 4.) but is 
larger, more slender, smooth, and in that the canal is smooth before the cross plait. The Bullia achatina 
is found in a fossil state. 
Bullia Cochlidium. 
Bucc. Cochlidium. Chemn. xi. f. 2053, 54. — Wood, Cat. t.f. 95. 
Inhab. South Seas. 
Bullia Mauritiana. 
Shell ovate, turreted, yellow, smooth, distantly spirally striated ; suture deeply impressed, rather callous, 
apex very acute, inner lip scarcely thickened. 
Inhab. Madagascar. 
This shell varies in being very smooth with minute stria'. It is allied to Bullia vittata {Terebra vittata. 
Lam.—Enc. t. 402. /. 41.), but is very different in the suture. This last shell varies in often having a 
distant varix or broad thick rib round the outer lip. 
