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Conus proteus Hwass. 



C. proteus Hwass (1791), Tryon, Man. Conus, p. 12. 



C. spurhis Auct. as of Grnelin. 



C. leoninus Hwass, 1791. 



C. ochraceus Lam., + C breviculus Sow., + C. armillatus C. B. Adams, fide Tryon, I. c. 



One small specimen, painted almost exactly like Scaphella Junonia and hardly 

 to be recognized as identical with the adult, except by comparison with a 

 series, was obtained on the west coast of Florida in 19 frns. 



Conus Pealii Green. 



Conus Pealii Green, Trans. Alb. Inst., I. p. 123, pi. iii. fig. 3, 1830; Thes. Conch., 



figs. 393, 394. 

 Conus Stearnsii Conrad, Am. Journ. Conch., V. p. 104, pi. x. fig. 1, 1869. 

 Conus Candidas Kiener, Coq. Viv., tab. xcvii. fig. l,fide Tryon, I. c. 



This shell has been confounded with C. floridanus Gabb by Sowerby, and 

 by many collectors. It is not rare on the west coast of Florida and the Keys. 

 It prefers grassy ground in shallow water. Of late years it has been found by 

 Jewett, Stearns, Velie, and others. Mr. Conrad redescribed it in ignorance of 

 Green's paper on American cones. 



Conus Pealii is generally about three quarters of an inch in length, the 

 breadth, at the sharply keeled shoulder, less than half the length ; smooth be- 

 hind, grooved on the anterior half; with gradate, slightly excavated or chan- 

 nelled spire, marked only by arched lines of growth; livid gray color, with 

 chestnut blotches, the sides articulated with numerous narrow fillets of brown 

 and white, the brown spots always smaller, sometimes obsolete, the wdiite 

 sometimes merely translucent, brightest on the keel; the interior of the mouth 

 white and dark brown; epidermis smooth and extremely thin, the sides nearly 

 right lines, the middle of the outer lip arched forward. 



C. Pealii was not collected by the Blake, but I have introduced a notice 

 of it here on account of its relation to some of the other species mentioned, and 

 because it has been so generally misunderstood. 



Conus Agassizii Dall. 



Plate IX. Figs. 8, 8 a. 



Conus Afjassizii Dall, Report on Moll. Blake, Part i. pi. ix. figs. 8, 8 a, and expl. to 

 plate, Sept., 1886. 



This shell was at first thought to be a transitional form, uniting C. pygmceus 

 Reeve and C. Pealii, as the younger specimens first studied lent themselves to 

 Mich a conclusion. The receipt of a large specimen collected at Bermuda 

 (45 X 23 mm.) shows that this idea was incorrect, and that it is distinct from 

 either of them. 



