MOLLUSCOUS ANIMALS. 
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Bullia laevigata. Gmel. 
Bucc. lasvigatum. Martini, iv. t. 127. f. 1215, 16, — Lam. Ency. Method, 
t. 400. /. 1. a . h. 
Bucc. lasvissimum. Lam. Hist. vi. 265. n. 6. 
Bullia laivis. 
Buccinum laeve. Gmel. 3488. — Dillw. p. 623. from Martini, iv. t. 124. 
f. 1150. a. h. copied in Wood, Cat. t. 23. f. 86. 
Buccinum squalidum. King. Zool. Journ. n. 63. 
This shell varies greatly in size. Martini’s figure is smaller; and I have a third larger than those des- 
cribed by Capt. King. 
Bullia l^evissima. 
Buccinum laevissimum. Lam. 
B. callosum. Wood. Sup. t. 4. f. 14. — Lister, Conch, t. 978. f. 25. 
Inhab. 
Bullia semiplicata. 
Shell ovate, turreted, yellow, pellucid, smooth, spire attenuated, slender, longitudinally plaited ; last 
whorls convex, smooth ; suture with a permanent callous rib ; inner lip callous ; outer lip thin, expanded 
in front. 
Inhab. 
NASSA. 
Nassa Xanthostoma. t. 36. f. 3. 
Nassa luteostoma. Brod. & Sow. Zool. Jour. iv. 376, 
Nassa attenuata. 
Shell ovate, globose, ventricose, smooth, pale brown, marbled with white; spire conical, apex attenuated, 
acute, upper whorls spirally striated and transversely plaited, last whorl ventricose, distantly spirally striated 
in front. Mouth small, roundish, outer lip contracted ; throat brown, deeply grooved ; inner lip smooth. 
Axis. 
Inhab. Pacific Ocean. 
Lamarck separates Buccinum into two sections. The following species, which he has placed in the first, 
should be referred to the second, as they are Nassa : B. olivaceum, B. canaliculatum, B. crenulatum, B. reti- 
culatum, B. mutabile, B. inflatum, B. retusum, B. gemmulatum, B. fasciatum, B. subspinosum, B. Ascanias, 
B. grana, and B. coccinella. 
BUCCINUM. 
Buccinum angulosum. t. 36./. 6. 
Shell ovate, conical, solid, white, very closely and wavedly spirally striated ; upper whorls fluted, distantly 
