Vnn. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. XIII. 1904, p. 454) has recorded this 

 1 oromandel coast, in 41 fath.;else the tnonographs give more remote localities, 



iculatus Sowerby. 



inchyl. Vol. III. Conus, Suppl. I, p. 32K. PI. j.). 



Kii Vn. Vol. I. Conus, p. 155. PI. 72, ' utanguh 



WEINKAUFF. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II. Vol. I\'. Conus, p. ••,-"/. PI. 1 10,11. 



Man. "i Vol. VI, p. 7.4. 75. PI. 23, fig. 89 [cancellatus ju 



SMl 1 11. Zool. ('"11. i>. 487. 



.;. in. West '■( Kwandang-bay-entrance. 72 M. Fine sand with mud. 1 Spec. 



4 Between islands of Wowoni and Buton. 75 — 94 M. Sand with dead shells. 2 Spec. 

 t. .■ ; . Banda. 9—45 M. Black sand, coral. 1 Spec. 

 t. 301. Pepela-bay, East coast "f Rotti-island. 22 M. Mud, coral and Lithothamnion. 1 Spec. 



I have foliowed the suggestions of Smith, I. c. and Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, 

 XIV, 1894, p. 160, concerning the synonymy of this species. The Sibo^a-specimens are 



. Conus (Asperi) aculeiformis Reeve. 



REEVE. Conch. Ie. Vol. 1, Conus, fig. 240/'. 



Sowerby. Thes. Conchyl. Vol. III. Conus, p. 12, PI. 16, J70. 



WEINKAUFF. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II. Vol. IV. Conus, p. 258, PI. 43, fig* 2, 3. 



TRYON. Man. >>\ Conch. Vol. VI, p. 75, PI. 23, fig. 90. 



Stat. 51. Madura-bay. 69 — 91. M. Fine grey sand, coarse sand with shells. 1 Spec. 

 West of Kwandang-bay-entrance. 72 M. Fine sand with mud. 2 Spec. 

 . 204. Between islands of Wowoni and Buton, 75 — 94 M. Sand with dead shells. 1 Spec. 

 it. 313. East of Dangar Besar, Saleh-bay. Up to 36 M. Sand, coral and mud. 1 Spec. 



unites with this species a multitude <>f more or less allied, elongated Coni, but 

 Smith, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. XIII, 1904, p. 454, 455), admits a large amount 

 of variability, without falling in that extreme. 



- Conus (Asperij delicatus n. sp. PI. XX\ T , fig. 3. 



t. 51. Madura-bay. <>o — 91 M. Fine grey sand, coarse sand with shells. 1 Spec. 



Shell elongately fusiform, with high spire, smooth, shining, yellowish-white, with yellow- 



■ >. formed by series of quadrangular blotches. Whorls 8, of which about s'A (upper 



not intact) form a quite smooth, convexly-whorled nucleus, subsequent whorls angular, first 



witli r on with 2 spiral grooves, sliohil) coronated in upper post-nuclear whorls, the grooves 



Is punctured, space between the doop suture and upper groove, with perpendicular 



r that between lower and suture, with very oblique striae; infra-angular 



worl in its upper part scarcely grooved, luit with a few spiral rows of punctu 



