132 
The Hifory of ANIMALS* 
Euccinum breve ventricofum ore angufto dentate* 
The fhort , fmooth , ventricofe Euccinum , w/V/6 a narrow dentated mouth 
This is one of the mod fingular fpecies of this genus: it is an inch and a half 
in length, and near an inch and a quarter in diameter : it confifls of about nine volutions 
but the lower one makes, alone, almod the whole fhell, the others being all comprifed 
in the fpace of the third of an inch ; the lower, or great volution, is of a figure ap¬ 
proaching to oval, but too fmall at the larger end, to anfwer exa&ly to that figure: ids 
mouth is fmall, oblong, and narrow; the lip is carried at each end a little beyond the 
aperture, and forms a ridge ; and the mouth is dentated on both fides: the colour is a 
pale brown, variegated with a deeper colour of the fame kind, and in fome places 
with a faint whitish. 
It is a narive of the Ead Indies, and is common to fome other places. 
Euccinum crajfws ore magno fimplki. 
The thick Euccinum , with a great fimple mouth. 
This grows to four or five inches in length, and is two inches and a half in diameter 
in the thicked part: it confids of fix fpiral turns or volutions, and is terminated by a 
fmall but obtufe end : the lower volution, which forms, as it were, the body of the 
fhell, is ventricofe and large ; the mouth is large and oblong, and is quite fimple, the 
lips being thin, and not at all edged : the colour is a beautiful whitifh, variegated with 
red, yellow, and brown, in an elegant manner, and the whole furface is fmooth, and 
has a fine natural polifh. 
It is a native of the Wed Indies. 
Euccinum ovato-oblongum Iceve ore longo angufiiffimo. 
The fmooth , ovato-oblong Euccinum , with an oblong and a 
very narrow mouth . 
Xije 
This is one of the mod fingular of this varying genus; it is three or four inches 
long, and between two and three in diameter; the figure is oblong, and, with the length 
of the aperture of the mouth, has fome refemblance to the ear of an afs, whence it 
has obtained it’s common name of Midas’s Ear. It confids of fix volutions, but the 
lower one alone makes up almod the whole fhell; this is of a figure approaching to 
oval: the mouth reaches almod the whole length of it, and is very narrow, appearing 
fcarce more than a flit, fomewhat broader at the bottom than elfewhere: the lip is 
rounded, and, toward the bottom, has a kind of reduplication : the furface is perfe&ly 
fmooth, and the colour a pale brown. 
It is a native of the American feas. 
Buccinum brevijfimum roftro fublongo cavo . 
The very fort Buccinutn , with a long , hollowed fnout . 
This is about two inches and a half in length, and near two inches in diameter, but, 
excepting for the fnout or rodrum, it is much thicker than it is long: it is compofed 
of about fix fpiral volutions, but they are very fhort and flatted, and the extremity is 
obtufe ; the body of the fhell is large ; the mouth wide, and of a fomewhat oval figure ; 
and the extremity of the fhell continued into a kind of fnout, confiderably long, flender, 
and hollowed : the lip is thick and wrinkled, and the whole furface of the fhell is very 
deeply wrinkled, and is full of low, oblong, protuberances, which feem, indeed, little 
more than the higher elevations of the ridges between the wrinkles. 
It is a native of the American feas. 
The other fpecies of the Buccinum are confiderably numerous; they are, i. The 
great, long-tailed, and oblong-mouthed Buccinum. 2. The great, brown and white, 
contabulated and tuberculous Buccinum. 3. The fmall, brown, furrowed, long, 
Buccinum. 4. The long, brown Buccinum, with a duplicated and dentated lip. 5. 
The long Buccinum, with a narrow body, called the Babylonian Tower-fhell. 6. 
The oblong Buccinum, variega.ed with red ipots 7. The long-pointed Buccinum, 
called 
