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culations of pale, rusty lines, with a series behind the middle and 
another at the anterior third of the last whorl, of several large, lunate 
or triangular, white spots, alternating with dark ferruginous spots ; 
and there is the same alternation on the shoulder of the last whorl ; 
around its anterior portion are six or eight grooves. Aperture narrow 
and straight; pillar straight; interior flesh-coloured. 
Length half an inch; breadth one-fourth of an inch. 
Inhabits the Feejee Islands. 
This is a beautiful little species, somewhat like C. corallinus, Kiener, 
and painted somewhat like C. ammiralis. 
Figure 367, shell, with the animal ; 367, ventral view of the shell. 
Conus vexittum (Martin1), Conch. Cab., tab. 57, f. 269. La- 
MARCK; Anim. sans Vert., xi. 51. Kiener; Iconog., pl. 34, f. 1. 
Reeve; Conch. Icon., f. 3. 
Anima dusky above, with splendid indigo-blue reflections about 
the head, siphon and anterior part of foot, becoming greenish towards 
the posterior point; beneath, deep emerald green ; tentacles stout ; eyes 
about midway. Operculum obliquely fan-shaped. 
Obtained at Tutuilla, Samoa Islands. 
Figure 361, the animal and shell. 
Conus miues (Liv.), Martini, Conch., tab. 59, f. 663-4. Lamarck ; 
Anim. sans Vert., xi. 52. Quoy and Gaim.; Astrol., pl. 52, f. 11. 
SowerBy; Conch. IIll., f. 100. Rerrve; Conch. Icon., f. 9. Kiener; 
Iconog., pl. 38, f. 2. 
Anta black predominating on a gray ground above, somewhat 
mottled ; foot paler beneath, dotted black; siphon long, finely mottled 
with black, and black at tip; margin of the mantle black. Foot thick, 
fleshy, as long as the aperture, with a transverse fold in front, and the 
