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occasionally rise above the general surface as flattened threads. Junior 
whorls with seven to nine faint, very oblique transverse costae, the promi¬ 
nence of which varies in different specimens. Epidermis very thin, smooth, 
dehiscent. Color whitish, painted with oblique reddish-brown flammules, 
irregularly distributed in patches transverse to the whorls. Columella 
twisted with a strong fasciole, lightly glazed; outer lip smooth, entire, 
slightly thickened, white on the edge, orange-yellow within, extending 
a little in advance of the columella. Apex rather acute, suture appressed; 
whorls seven, regularly tapering, not inflated. Length, 2.18; width, 
2; length of aperture, 1.05 in. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, Aleutian 
Islands. 
Range. Aleutian Islands, eastward to Bristol Bay and Kodiak 
Island, Alaska. 
Figure 9 is form tricarinatum Dali, not described. 
Buccinum ochotense Middendorff, 1848 
Sibirische Reise, 235; Pi. 10, figs. 1, 2, 
Testa lurida crassa, tamen leviuscula, fusiformi-conica; anfractibus 
subapplantis, plicis 10 vel 11, ad medium infractum maxime prominulis, 
transversim plicatis, longitudine confertim et aequaliter sulcato-lineatis, 
interstitiis sulcos latitudine ter saltern superantibus; labio calloso; labro 
magnopere incrassato; apertura semilunata, roseo-violacea. (Midden¬ 
dorff.) 
Shell dull-colored, thick, nevertheless smoothish, fusiform-conical; 
whorls flattened, plications ten to twelve, most prominent on the middle 
of the whorl, transversely plicate, with length evenly sulcate-lineate, with 
the interstices crossing the ridges three times at least; lip greatly in- 
crassate; aperture semilunate, roseate violet. (Translation.) 
Type in Academy, St. Petersburg. Type locality, Arctic. 
Range. Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, and the Okhotsk Sea. 
Described as Tritonium ochotense . 
Buccinum simulatum Dali, 1907 
Plate 17, fig. 11 
Miscellaneous Collections, Smithsonian Institution, 50:150. Bulletin 112, United 
States National Museum; PL 10, fig. 4. 
Shell resembling B. limnoideum in minor sculpture, but with six or 
seven obscure ribs on the penultimate whorl, hardly reaching the periph¬ 
ery, three strong spirals on the whorls, the last just above the suture and 
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