10 CONUS. 
Pattern of coloring very like C. marmoreus, but lighter; the 
shell is immediately distinguished by the want of the coronal of 
tubercles and its usually small size. Mr. Melville, of Prestwich, 
near Manchester, England, who possesses a remarkable collec- 
tion of Cones, has sent me a colored drawing of a gigantic 
specimen in his collection, 2°25 inches in length; he proposes to 
call it var. eudoxus (PI. 27, fig. 3). 
Section II. Lirerart. 
Lithoconus (ex parte), Morch. 
C. Literatvus, Linn. PI. 2, figs. 17-19. 
‘Shell white, with usually two or three broad light yellow or 
orange-brown bands, marked with revolving series of large and 
small dark chocolate or nearly black, round, square or triangular 
spots; these spots are frequently elongated longitudinally, and 
sometimes partially coalesce so as to form interrupted longi- 
tudinal stripes; base of shell often tinged with chocolate. 
Length, 3—5°5 inches. 
Zanzibar, Ceylon, Java, Singapore, New Caledonia, Viti Is. 
C. Gruneri, Reeve (fig. 18), from the island of Java, appears 
to be a young shell without any distinguishable characters. 
Var. MILLEPUNCTATUS, Lam. PI. 2, fig. 19. 
Said to differ from C. literatus in the spots being smaller and 
much more numerous, and in the absence of the yellow bands. 
It is connected by intermediate stages with the typical lzteratus. 
C. catatus, A. Adams. PI. 2, fig. 20. 
Shell small, with revolving grooves, which are longitudinally 
striate; spire minutely coronate, the apex acutely elevated ; 
white, widely reticulated with orange. Length, 16 mill. 
China. 
I am not acquainted with this species. 
-C. PLANAXIS, Deshayes. PI. 2, fig. 21. 
Yellowish, encircled by narrow, more or less interrupted 
chestnut lines, chocolate-tinged at the base. Length, 19 mill. 
Isle of Bourbon. 
An unsatisfactory species, being evidently described from a 
very young shell. 
