BY C. HEDLEY. 307 



T. spectdbilis has already been reported from New South Wales 

 by Angas, and from Torres Straits by Brazier. Perhaps these 

 reports refer to D. vallesia. 



Conus anemone Lamarck. 



Conns anemone Lamarck, Ann. du Museum, xv., 1810, p. 272. 



C. maculosus Sowerby, Conch. Illus.; Conus, 1833, PL i. fig. 3. 



C. jukesii Reeve, Conch. Icon., i., Conus SuppL, 1848, PI. ii., fig. 

 278. 



C. novcehollandice A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1853(1854), p. 

 119 ; Id., Thes. Conch., iii., p. 31, PL 199, fig. 298-9. 



C. maculatus Sowerby, Thes. Conch., iii., 1858, PL 199, fig. 296. 



C. rossiteri Brazier, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1870, p. 109. 



There is no general agreement on the treatment of this common 

 and variable shell. From Lamarck's phrase "tenuissime striata," 

 and from Kiener's figure of a Lamarckian specimen, I suppose that 

 the typical form of C. anemone is the variety with coarse revolving 

 threads, called by A. Adams, C. novazhollandice. This is repre- 

 sented, in the British Museum, from Port Essington, coll. Capt. 

 Wickham, and from Tasmania, coll. R. Gunn. To my knowledge, 

 it is absent from the east coast of Australia. 



Conus maculosus Sowerby, was described from the Philippine 

 Islands, and is asserted by Hidalgo* to exist there. Probably no 

 type is extant. Sowerby's figures and description are hardly 

 enough for exact determination. If tradition, as embodied in the 

 British Museum collection, can be trusted, C. maculosus is not a 

 Philippine shell, but a native of New South Wales. It is thinner, 

 smoother, more inflated, and with a lower spire than C. novai- 

 hollandice. 



C. jukesii, which also occurs in New South Wales, is a smooth, 

 short, broad, form, with a low spire. Of this, C. rossiteri is a trivial 

 colour-variation. 



These expressions of C. anemone may be summed up thus : — 

 Yar. novcehollandiai A. Adams. Tall, solid, with raised close 

 revolving threads, spire elevated. North, West, and South Aus- 



* Hidalgo, Cat. Molua. Test, islas Filipinas, 1905, p. 101. 



