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The adult is elegantly spindle-shaped, falling in a little toward the keel 

 which is more or less regularly minutely dotted with reddish brown at rather 

 long intervals. The suture is very distinct, almost channelled. The spire is 

 without revolving sculpture, the sinus deeply concavely arched. There are 

 about seven strong grooves in the adult anteriorly. The very young (tig. 8 a) 

 is deeply grooved all over, as in C. verrucosus. In the adolescent shell the 

 epidermis is thin, and nearly smooth ; it is a little rougher but still thin in the 

 adult. The former has a somewhat waxen translucency, the adult is porcella- 

 nous. The young is waxen white with faint pink cloudy suffusion and yel- 

 lowish ill-defined brown patches. These colors are faint at all ages and form 

 no definite pattern, except the dots on the keel. 



In the young, by transmitted light, it can be seen that there are articulated 

 lines of opaque and more translucent character, but these have hardly any color 

 and are lost in the adult state. The interior of the aperture is white or nearly 

 so, the mouth is rather wide, the apex of the spire neatly pointed. The adult 

 has about ten whorls, with a total length of 45.0, and a maximum width of 

 23.0 mm. The spire rises 10.0 mm. behind the aperture. 



Specimens were dredged by the Blake at Station 132, in 115 fms., near 

 Santa Cruz Island, and in 76 fms. at Station 272, Barbados. It is also found 

 at Bermuda, where Prof. G. Brown Goode obtained a large specimen, and 

 others have since been collected by Prof. A. Heilprin of Philadelphia. 



Conus Villepinii Fischer & Beenardi. 



C. Villepinii F. & B., Journ. de Conchyl., V. p. 292, t. ix. fig. 12, 1857. 



Station 167, 175 fms., sand, Guadalupe, bottom temperature 55° F. Several 

 small specimens apparently of this species, one or two of which were fresh. The 

 type came from the islet of Marie-Galante near Guadalupe. This species has 

 also been dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission on Little Bahama Bank in 

 338 fms., at Station 2655. It is very close to and possibly identical with 

 C. Cleryi Reeve, which came from the northern shores of Brazil. 



Conus daucus Hwass. 

 C. daucus Hwass, Encycl. Meth. Vers, I., Part ii. p. 651, 1791. 



One or two dead specimens of the variety ft Reevei Kiener, from Station 272, 

 76 fms., coarse sand, Barbados. 



Conus centurio Born. 



C. centurio Born, Mus., pi. vii. fig. 10, 1780. 



A specimen from Station 127, 38 fms., sand, Santa Cruz island, is identified 

 as belonging to this species by Mr. G. W. Tryon, Jr. It is a young shell, and 



