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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
closely undulated, close-set striae, which gave a somewhat granular or 
punctate aspect to the intervals between the axial threads; on the periph¬ 
ery of the last whorl are a few obsolete, stronger spirals; aperture wide 
with a conspicuous gutter somewhat in front of the shoulder in the outer 
lip; a glaze of enamel on the body and pillar, a short shallow recurved 
canal, and a well-marked siphonal fasciole; the operculum nearly circular, 
laminose externally, with central nucleus. Height of shell, 47; of last 
whorl, 34; diameter, 30 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 222485. Type locality, 
United States Fish Commission Station 3518, off Nunivak Island, Bering 
Sea. 
Range. Bering Sea, Nunivak Island, to north of Unimak Island, in 
36 fathoms. 
Buccinum humphreysianum Bennett, 1825 
Zoological Journal, 1:398. Jeffreys, British Conchology; PI. 88, fig. 1. 
Shell ovate-conical, thin, horn-colored, with numerous transverse striae; 
the last whorl with three double bands (the upper one nearly obsolete) 
which are brown, irregularly spotted with white; columella smooth; mar¬ 
gin of the labrum slightly reflected. Whorls eight, convex, finely and closely 
striated in a transverse direction; striae slightly waved, and crossed by 
very minute longitudinal lines. Bands on the lower whorl six, narrow, 
disposed in pairs, brown, irregularly spotted with white, gradually dis¬ 
appearing on the upper ones. Columella smooth, white; aperture horn- 
colored ; lip white, slightly thickened and reflected at the margin. Canal 
very short, with a slight tinge of violet behind it. Length 2; breadth, 
1 mm. (Bennett.) 
Type in British Museum? Type locality, harbor of Cork. 
Range. “Northwest America ,, (Pease) ; exotic? 
Buccinum oedematum Dali, 1907 
Plate 14, fig. 2 
Miscellaneous Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 50:145. 
Shell rather thin, swollen, short-conic, with a greenish-gray periostra- 
cum, which is smooth and caducous, whorls about seven, usually more 
or less eroded, with a chalky-white substratum; sculpture of (on the 
penultimate whorl, about 40) narrow, sharpish, sigmoid wrinkles, with 
wider interspaces, obsolete on the base, sparser on the last whorl, and 
more or less irregular, the whole surface finely, evenly, spirally striated; 
suture distinct, not deep; aperture milk-white, wide, ample, the outer lip 
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