256 MOLLUSCA. 
Inhabits Taheiti. 
Figure 377, animal, with the shell. 
CypR#A OBVELATA (Lamarck), Anim. sans Vert., x. 538. Sowersy ; 
Conch. Ill. f. 138. Kiener; Iconog., pl. 34, f. 4. C. obvallata, REEVE ; 
Conch. Icon., f. 69. 
ANIMAL with the mantle wax-yellow, studded with pale stars, with 
fine, undulating, transverse, brown lineations, well garnished with 
delicate, bifid papille, one of the points being longer than the other ; 
foot pale, with radiating pencillings of bluish. 
Inhabits Tutuilla, Samoa Islands. 
Figure 379, lateral view of the animal and shell. 
Conus DILECTUS (Gould). 
T. parva, gracihs, conica, allnda, ferrugineo concinné reticulata et serte- 
bus binis macularum candidarum et rufarum alternantium cincta: 
sptra elevata, concavo-conica ; anfractibus octo ad novem, angulatis, 
coronatis, postice striatis, ultimo inermt, antice sex ad octo sulcato: 
apertura linearis ; columella recta ; fauce incarnata. 
Conus dilectus, Goutp; Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 11. 172. 
January 1850. Expedition Shells, 73. 
Anima delicate carnation-coloured, with a dark submarginal line; 
front vermilion; siphon vermilion at tip, and banded at the middle 
with deep indigo-blue. 
SHELL small, acutely and accurately conical; spire elevated, its 
profile a little concave ; whorls eight or nine, with a very finely nodu- 
lous, acute-angled carina, below the middle, the space above the 
angle with about four revolving striz ; the angle on the outer whorl is 
not nodular; just in front of the suture are very fine, longitudinal 
wrinkles. Colour dingy-white, everywhere covered with minute reti- 
