C N U S. 



Plate XI. 



Species 52. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus reticulatus. Con. testa, abbreviato-turbinatd, 

 solidd, alba, lineis fuseis, subdistantibus, interdum 



interruptis, transverse pictd ; interstitiis lineis longi- 

 tudinalibus brevibus, arcuatis, subirregulariter reticu- 

 lata, reticulis fusco hie illic nebulosis ; spird convexo- 

 obtusd, leevi, maculis fuseis reliculatis tessellatd ; 

 basi sulcata. 



The reticulated Cone. Shell abbreviately turbinated, 

 solid, white, transversely painted with rather distant 

 chestnut-brown lines, interrupted in places, the 

 interstices between which are somewhat irregularly 

 reticulated with short, curved, longitudinal lines of 

 the same colour, the reticulated spaces being 

 blotched or clouded here and there with chestnut- 

 brown ; spire convexly obtuse, smooth, tessellated 

 with blotches of reticulated brown ; base grooved. 



Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 86. 



Conus lucidus ?, Wood (undescribed). 



Hab. Island of La Plata (found in coarse sand) ; Cuming. 



I know of no Cone that can be at all confounded with 

 the species under consideration ; the brown lines, painted 

 upon a clear, bluish-white ground, look as though they 

 had been ruled by artificial process. 



Species 53. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus pulchellus. Con. testd oblongo-turbinatd, in 

 medio leviter coaretatd , furvo-aurantid, maculis gran- 

 dibus sinuatis mediane et superne ornatd, punctisque 

 fuseis numerosis ubique seriatim cinctd ; spini de- 

 pressed, spiraliter cana/iculatd et striata ; basi pal- 

 lida purpured, leviter nodulosd, fauce purpured. 



The pretty Cone. Shell oblong-turbinated, slightly 

 contracted in the middle, ornamented round the 

 top and near the middle with a row of large irre- 

 gularly sinuated white blotches, and encircled 

 throughout with rows of very fine brown dots ; 

 spire depressed, spirally canaliculated and striated ; 

 base pale purple, slightly nodulous, purple within. 



Swainson, Zool. Illus., 1st series, vol. ii. pi. 65. 



Variety /3. (Vide Plate XXIII.) 



Testa largior, tumidior, bifasciata, punctis indistinctis ; 

 spird pallid'e purpured, non canaliculutd. 



Conns cinctus, Swainson, Zool. Illus., 1st series, 

 vol. ii. pi. 110. 



Hab. ? 



This shell is rarely to be found with its specific pecu- 

 liarities so distinctly portrayed as in the specimen here 

 figured ; Swainson appears indeed to have been singu- 

 larly misled by it. The sinuated spots are ordinarily 

 clouded into each other, and in var. /3. (which is not 

 uncommon in collections) they become altogether lost, 

 assuming the character of a broad uninterrupted band. 

 The shell in this state (var. /3.) is the C. cinctus of the 

 same author, a name perhaps better known to English 

 collectors than the one I have adopted ; the French 

 collectors, however, have it marked C. pulchellus, and I 

 follow them in this respect, because I think it prudent 

 to preserve the title of that variety which represents 

 the species in its most characteristic state. My atten- 

 tion was not drawn to the affinity here described until 

 I observed the common variety thus marked in the Paris 

 collections ; and as this happened after the accompany- 

 ing plate was engraved, I must refer the reader to PI. 23. 

 for a figure and further account of it. The variety in 

 question approaches very closely in form and general 

 appearance to the C. lineatus or vitulinus (I believe 

 Swainson's C. vitulinus, var., pi. 128. of the same series 

 of ' Illustrations ' to be nothing more than a pale specimen 

 of the species under consideration), but neither of these 

 Cones exhibit the least indication of that clear bright 

 purple which forms so distinguished an ornament to 

 the C. pulchellus. 



Species 54. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Conus Capitaneus. Con. testd turbinatd, o/ivareo-ftariilil. 

 fasciis duabus albis, nigerrimo-fusco-maculatis, lineis- 

 que punctatis cinctd ; spird oht uso-convcjrd, al/ni, oli- 

 vaceo-fusco tessellatd, punctis s/riisque corrugatis 

 subtilissime reticulatd; basi striata, fauce aeruleo- 

 purpured. 

 The Captain Cone. Shell turbinated, olive-yellow, 

 encircled with two white blackish-brown spotted 

 bands and a number of blackish-brown dotted lines ; 

 spire obtusely convex, white, tessellated with olive- 

 brown, and very finely reticulated with indented 

 dots and striae ; base striated, bluish-purple within. 

 Linnjius, Syst. Nat. (Gmelin's edit.), p. 3376. 



June 1843. 



