290 MOLLUSCA. 
Figure 362, animal, from beneath; 362a, enlarged outline of the 
head. 
Conus MINIMUs (Linnzxvs), Lamarck; Anim. sans Vert., xi. 19, for 
synonymy. Reeve; Conch. Icon., f. 143. 
ANIMAL above deep violaceous purple, mottled ; foot ochreous, mot- 
tled with violaceous; tip of foot, and interior of siphon and tentacles 
rose-red. 
Distributed over most of the Pacific Islands. 
Figure 366, side view of the animal and shell. 
PERONIA INDOLENS, (Couthouy MS.) 
Corpus oblongo-ovale, antrorsum angustatum, lateribus compressis tuber- 
culato-dentatis: tentacula nigr@, subulate : caput cordatum ; pes dimi- 
diam latitudinis corporis adequans, straminea ; color ex fusco-viridi 
Jlavescens, subtus ochracea. 
Body elongated-oval, somewhat narrowed anteriorly, convex along 
the middle of the back, and flattened at the edges, which are furnished 
with coarse tubercles projecting over the margin in twenty-four conical 
processes, with occasional smaller ones intervening. Tentacles black, 
subulate, projecting considerably beyond the mantle when the animal 
is in motion. Head somewhat cordate in front; lips broad and fleshy ; 
mouth destitute of horny appendages, as far as could be ascertained. 
Foot half the width of the body, tongue-shaped ; colour dark bronze- 
green on the back, inclining to yellow at the margins; under side of 
the mantle ochreous yellow, foot somewhat paler, with a bluish tinge 
along the middle. 
Length a little more than an inch; breadth one-third of an inch; 
height one-third of an inch. 
Found on rocks at low water on the little Ilha do Pai, outside har- 
bour of Rio Janeiro. [3. Pp. c.] 
