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Show 374 MOLLUSCA. MITRA, Lam. bl g w.i th a f ew large plicce on the columella., the The aperture o . on b' e.m g t h e 1a t· gest'· .the spire usually pomted one nearest the spire . . bt·illiantly spotted with red on a S • 1 spectes ate and elongated. eveta f h imal is small; the tentaculaare ( ) The foot o t e an · · I' • white ground l · . on the side, near the1r lD•enor 1 th wtth the eyes . 1 Of a moderate eng ' . of a mo d era te length ' but 1t frequent y pro-third; the sipho~ also lS than its shell. trudes a proboscis longer • . CANCELLARIA, Lam. ·, e. aperture a mple and round, the internal The last whorl ventrtcos ' 1 lla The spire is salient and . . late on the co ume . . . I margm formmg a P h 11 mat· ked with decussatmg su • pom. t e d , and the surface of the s e ci(2). 'fhe BucciNUM, Lin.(3) . h h lls furm. she d W'lt h an emarginati• on or •a shortf Compnses all t e s e . h' h the columella Is destttute o cana1 1'n ficcted to the left, and 1TI w IC Plicce. . t the four genera of Buccinum, d. 'd d them m 0 d' Brugieres has IVl e f h" h have been again sub I· . d 'n bra part o w tc Purpura, Cassts, an L ere ~and Montfort. The vided by Messrs de amarc BuoorNuM, Drug. . d shells without any canal, whose general Includes the emargmate . 1 The animals-all such f 1 perture ts ova • . d .1l .'orm as well as that o lle a ''1 th head but are furntshe ' • d of the vet on e ' . f as are known, are deprtve 1 on the external stde o . arated tentacu a, d With a proboscts, two sep 1 Their siphon exten s which are the eyes, an d a 1lO r ny opercu um. out of the shell. ( . . L' t 839 66·-Vol. papal ~.s , Ib . 67., and 840, V6i8i; 1) Such are Vol. fp,scopalts, IS., '. 1, z· ·-Vol. pertussa, 822, 40;- 0: 65 Add Vol patnarc,ta lS, ~ l angrn· -Vol. cardinalis, 838, · ... · Vi.l licaria List., 820, 37;- 0 • 8 d l cula Martini, IV,cxlvm, 1366;~. o. P 1"~ 1n69 1370;-Vol.acus,J., vu:pe L's't 821 8·-Vol. caffra, MartmJ, IV, ex vm8, 1"389, ·-Vol. mq.culosa, lb., suga, 1 1 ., ' ' • z Id xlix 138 ' · lb .. 1493 1494;-Vol. scabncu a, ., c . ' .1 '1 1392·-V. aurantta, ., c vu, ' l lb 1385·-Vol. spadteea, lu., c' , 1377;-Vol. nodu osa, ., .'_v. tunicula, 1376. -So· 1393, 1394;-V. decussata, 1395, 6·-Vol. reticulata, 830, 25, &c. (2) Voluta cancellata, L' Adans., VIII, 1 ' . 11 K V D' .. a Stplwnll' werb., Gen. ofShe s, o. . f: '1 f his Paracephaloplwra wrc (3) M. de Blain ville makes al ~~\ y ~alls the ENoToMoi5TOlltA· branchiata of this great genus, w llC 1 le • GASTEROPODA PECTINIBRANCHIATA. 375 The name of Buccinum is especially applied by M. de Lamarck to those in which the columella is convex and naked, and the margin without plicre or varix. Their foot is moderate, their proboscis long and thick, and their penis, frequently, excessively large(l). In the NAssA, Lam., The side of the columella is covered by a more or less broad and thick plate, and the emat·gination is deep, but without a canal. The animal resembles that of a true Buccinum, and there are gradual transitions among the shells, from one subgenus to the other(2). M. Delamat·ck calls EnuRNA, Lam., Those, which to a smooth shell without a plicated' margin, add a widely and deeply umbricated columella. The general form of their shell is closely allied to that of the Olivce. Their animal is unknown( 3 ). ANOILLARIA, Lam. The same smooth shell, and at the lower part of the columella a marked lip; there is no umbilicus, neither is the spire sulcated. The animal of several species resembles that of the Olivce, the foot being still more developed( 4). The same naturalist calls DoLmM, Lam. Those in which projecting ribs, that follow the direction of the (I) Buccinum undulatum, L., List., 662, 14;-Bucc. glaciale, L. ;-B. anglicum, List., 963, 17;-B. porcatum, Martini, IV, cxxvi, 1213, 1214;-B.l<evissimum, Id., cxxvii, 1215, 1216;-B. igneum, lb., 1217;-B. carinatum, Phips, Voy., XII, 2;B. MJ/utum, Naturf., XVI, ii, 3, 4;-B. strigosum, Gm., No. 108, Bonan., III, 38;B. glaberrimum, Martini, IV, cxxv, 1177, 1182;-B. strigosum, lb. 1183, 1188;B. obtusum, lb., 1193;-B. coronatum, CXXI, 1115, 1116. (2) Buccinum arcularia, List., 970, 24·, 25;-B. pullus, List., 971, 26;-B. gib~ lum, List., 972, 27, and 973, 28;-B. tessellcitum, List., 975, 30;-B. fossile, Ilr, xciv, 912, 914;-B. marginatum, Id. cxx, 1101, 1102;-B. reticulaList., 966, 21;-B. vzdgatum, Martini, IV, cxxiv, 162, 166;-B. stolatum, 1167, 1169;-B. glans, List., 981, 40;-B. papillosum, List., 969, 23;-B. niti~ fartini, IV, cxxv, 1194, 1195. · glabratum, List., 974, 29;-B. spiratum, List., 981, 41;-B. Martini, IV, cxxii, 1119. Jlnci/laria cinnamomea, Lam., Mart., II, pl. 65, f. 731; Voluta ampla, Gm., lb. f. 722, and the species described by M. de Lamarck and figured in the Method., 393. See also the Monograph, No. 36, p. 72, of the Ancillarlre M. W. Swainson, Journ. of the Sc. and Arts, No. 36, p. 272. |