206 Zoological Society. 



Only a few specimens of this very characteristic species, which 

 may be readily recognised by its peculiar buff-tinted colour and light 

 inflated growth, are at present known. It has been supposed hitherto 

 to be the Conus cervus, but having lately examined, in the collection 

 of M. Delessert, the identical shell described under that title by La- 

 marck, with the description of that illustrious author attached to it 

 in his own handwriting, I am enabled to rectify an error which has 

 unfortunately gained considerable circulation. 



By the title now substituted for cervus in reference to the species 

 under consideration, I wish to honour my kind and amiable friend 

 M. Deshayes, now zealously occupied in completing the conchologi- 

 cal portion of the new edition of Lamarck's ' Histoire des animaux 

 sans vertebres/ the publication of which has been long anxiously 

 looked for. 



Conus vidua. Con. testd turbinatd, albd,fusco subtilissime reticu- 

 latd, reticulis ruptis, subsparsis ; fasciis binis nigerrimo-fuscis, 

 maculis albis spar sis, irreyulariter punctatis, cinctd ; spird concavo- 

 depressd, coronatd, apice subobtuso. 

 Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 8. f. 45. 



Hab. Island of Capul, Philippines (on the reefs) ; Cuming. 

 This curiously mottled Cone presents a very different style of 

 painting from any hitherto described species. Several specimens 

 were collected by Mr. Cuming. 



Conus pictus. Con. testd oblong o -turbinatd, tenuiculd, subventri- 

 cosd, puniceo brunneove et albo alternatim fasciatd, fasciis inter- 

 stitiisque fusco alboque identidem tceniatis et variegatis ; spird 

 convexo-elatd, ad marginem peculiariter strigatd, aperturd subin- 

 Jlatd. 

 Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 18. f. 98. 



Hab. ? 



The painting of this pretty shell is of very peculiar character, and 

 I know of no other species with which any comparison can well be 

 instituted. The most characteristic of two specimens now before 

 me exhibits three broad pale scarlet bands, the lower being orna- 

 mented with two articulated fillets of brown and white, the middle 

 with one only, whilst in the upper band the fillet is altogether want- 

 ing. The spaces between the bands are curiously variegated with 

 brown (scarlet-brown), and the base and upper edge of the shell are 

 obliquely streaked with the same colour ; the latter part in such a 

 manner as to leave a neat spiral necklace of short streaks upon the 

 surface of the spire. In some specimens the articulated fillets are 

 more confused, though the necklace of short streaks is still clearly 

 defined around the edge of the spire. 



Conus mahogani. Con. testd elongato-turbinatd, subcylindraced, 

 basim versus sulcatd ; albidd, spadiceo profuse tinctd, tceniis fre- 

 quentibus spadiceo alboque articulatis cinctd ; spird valde elatd ; 

 apertures fauce albd. 

 Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 22. f. 126. 

 Hab. Salango, West Columbia (found in sandy mud) ; Cuming. 



