jo BUCCINUM. JFHELK. 
jecting inwards : length not a quarter of an inch; treadth 
jather more. 
Dunbar, and Leith roads : very rare. 
BUCCINUM. WHELK . 
Shell with a single spiral gibbous valve: aper¬ 
ture oval 3 ending in a short canal leaning to tne 
right. 
1. Buccinum Perdix. Partridge JP helk. 
Lister , pi. 984. f. 43 —Montagu, pi. 8 . f. 5—Dorset Cat. 1 
pi. 15. f. 14. 
Shell somewhat oval, thin, inflated, with five or six 
spires ending in a fine point, the first very large and tu¬ 
mid, with about twenty flat circular ridges which aie 
broader than the interstices between them: color greyish 
or yellowish-brown irregularly marbled and spotted with 
white: aperture large, oval; the outer lip thin and withou 
teeth ; pillar-lip a iittle folding back on the lower part, 
and forming a slight elongated hollow behind it : length as 
inch and a half; breadth an inch. 
On the Devon and Dorset coasts: rare. v. m . 
2. Buccinum undatum. Waved Whelk. 
Lister , pi. 962. f. 14— Pennant, pi. 7 6 —Da Costa, 
f. 6 — Donovan , pi. 104— Dorset Cat. pi. 17* f* 6 - 
Shell oblong, coarse, tapering to a fine point: spires 
seven or eight, inflated and deeply defined, with numeroui 
rather remote rounded longitudinal ribs which are rather 
undulated, strongly striate transversely, and again crossed 
with finer longitudinal lines: outer-lip a little undulated 
in its circumference, sometimes thick and a little reflected, 
sometimes thin: pillar-lip forming a slight projection belov 
the canal which is reflected, rugged on the outside In¬ 
wards the top: color whitish or pale carnation, covered 
with a brown skin, sometimes marked with rufous blotches 
-or bands, and sometimes there are three or four strong fo¬ 
liations near the outer lip on the larger volution: length 
four or five inches ; breadth nearly two. 
The young, soon after they are excluded from the A 
have 
