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the lower side rather sharper. Whitish, lineated longitudinally with 

 close- set undulated livid lines blotched with clouds and dashes of 

 livid red. A broad pale band girds the body whorl below the middle. 

 Apex reddish white. Length 5 J ; breadth 3 inches. 



All these varieties, with the exception of var. a, are in the museum 

 of Mr. Cuming. 



Conus Victor. Con. testa subcylindraceo-conicd, flavd, maculis 

 albis inspersd, fasciis 2 moniliformibus latis, nigro-brunneis vel 

 brunneo-castaneis, latis concinne ornatd ; spirce mediocris, pyra- 

 midalis, anfractibus excavatis longitudinaliter striatis, subcancel- 

 latis, apice subacuto. 



Long. 1§ ; lat. f poll. 



Mus. Cuming, Harford. . 



Hab. ? 



This brilliant Cone strikes the eye at once. The bright star-like 

 spots with which the dark necklace-bands are interrupted and re- 

 lieved, and the yellow ground-colour which takes the form of three 

 alternating bands, render it attractive, and^the more minutely it is 

 examined the more it gains on the attention. The necklaces form- 

 ing the moniliform bands, when looked at with a lens, present the 

 appearance of some of the flattened platted chains executed in gold 

 and silver, and the shell altogether is a choice piece of workmanship. 



The species to which Conus Victor bears most resemblance are 

 Coni nobilis and Ammiralis ; but it comes much nearer to the last in 

 shape and general character, differing, however, from it in the deeper 

 excavation and sculpture of the spire, to say nothing of the discre- 

 pancy in the arrangement of the colouring, which in the only two 

 specimens that I have seen is identical. Of these, the richest in 

 colour is in the fine collection of Mr. Cuming, and the younger, but 

 very perfect specimen, in the choice cabinet of the Rev. A. Harford. 



A paper by Mr. Lovell Reeve, entitled " Descriptions of four new 

 species of Achatina, a genus of Pulmobranchiate mollusks of the 

 family Colimacea," was then read. 



Achatina lactea. Ach. testd oblongo-ovatd, solidd, intus ex- 

 tilsque quasi fossili, laded, epidermide levidensi sparsim indutd ; 

 spird regulari, anfractibus longitudinaliter striatis, lineisque mi- 

 nutis circumdatis ; aperturd suboblongd, labro solidiusculo. 



Reeve, Conch. Syst. vol. ii. pi. 177. fig. 6. 



Long. 4^ ; lat. 2f\jj poll. Mus. Cuming, Stainforth. 



Hab. Zanzibar. 



This beautiful shell, which is in a perfectly live state, and covered 

 with a slight scattered epidermis, is of a rich uniform cream-colour, 

 without the least indication of any pattern ; the whorls are very 

 fully striated longitudinally, the striae rather irregularly following 

 the growth of the shell ; and they are again characterized by having 

 a number of fine lines running around the upper half of them in an 

 opposite direction. The columella, the aperture, indeed the entire 

 shell, both inside and out, is of rich cream-colour, and by this alone 

 it cannot fail to be recognised. 



