C N U S. 



Plate XIV. 



Species 72. (Fig. a & b, Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus brunneus. Con. testa turbinatd, crassd, fortiter 

 cor onatd ; fused, mnculis ulbis, longitudinaliter sinu- 

 utis,fasciatim dispositis, cinctd; spird subprominuld, 

 albo fuscoque maculatd, spiraliter sulcata, coronatd, 

 luberculis solidis, grandibus ; basi lineatd, lineis eleva- 

 tis, subgranosis. 



The brown Cone. Shell turbinated, thick, strongly 

 coronated ; brown, encircled with two bands of 

 longitudinally sinuated white spots ; spire rather 

 prominent, spotted with brown and white, spirally 

 grooved, coronated, tubercles large and solid ; base 

 lineated, lines slightly granulous. 



Wood, Ind. Test. Supp., pi. 3. f. 1. 



Sowerby, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1S34; Conch. Illus., f. 63. 



Variety /3. (Fig. 72 b.) 

 Testa crassior, obesior, immaculata, tola fusca, lineis 



saturatioribus transversis et longitudinulibus vivide 



picta. 

 Shell thicker, stouter, entirely brown, vividly painted 



with transverse and longitudinal lines of a darker 



brown. 

 Sowerby, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1834. 

 Hab. Puerto Portrero, Panama, and the Gallapagos 



Islands (found in clefts of rocks) ; Cuming. 



The colour of this shell is a very clear bright brown, 

 and it does not exhibit the slightest tinge of any other 

 colour. The spire varies considerably in its elevation 

 in the two specimens now before me, being much natter 

 and more depressed in the darker variety ; both are re- 

 markably strongly coronated. 



Species 73. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus aurantius. Con. testa oblongo-turbinatd, coro- 

 natd, transversim seriatim granulatd ; aurantid, mn- 

 culis grandibus perpaueis albis superrir, mediant- et 

 infern'e cinctd; granulis hie illic albis ; spird elatd. 



The orange Cone. Shell oblong-turbinated, coronated, 

 transversely granulated ; orange, encircled round 

 the upper, lower, and middle parts with large white 

 spots ; granules in regular rows, here and there 

 white ; spire raised. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth. vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 606. 



Variety /S. (Fig. 73 b.) 



Testa citrino -fusca, albo-maculata, granulis minoribus. 

 Shell dark citron-brown, white-spotted, granules smaller. 

 Hab. Moluccas. 



The Conus aurantius approximates very closely to the 

 Conus cedo-nulli in its varieties of colour and marking ; 

 it may, however, be readily distinguished from that 

 species by its more oblong form. In the dark variety 

 the granules are light over the dark painting, and dark 

 over the light spaces. 



Species 74. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus marmoretts. Con. testa oblongo-turbinatd, trans- 

 versim striata, nigra alboque rari'e marmoratd, macu- 

 lis albis sapissim'e subtrigonis ; spird concavo-cana- 

 liculatd, obtusd, luberculis coronatd, tuberculis estate 

 interdum subobsoletis. 



The marble Cone. Shell oblong, turbinated, trans- 

 versely striated, variously marbled with black and 

 white, white spots generally of a triangular form ; 

 spire concavely canaliculated, obtuse, coronated 

 with tubercles, tubercles sometimes nearly obsolete 

 with age. 



Linn^us, Syst. Nat. (Gmelin's edit.), no. 3374. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 442. 



Hab. Chinese Seas. 



The spots, though excessively varied in the specimen 

 here figured, are generally more or less cordiform or 

 triangular. 



Species 75. (Fig. a, Mus. Cuming; Fig. b, Mus. 

 Stainforth.) 



Conus vittatus. Con. testd turbinatd, fusco-violaced 

 aut rosed, fusco subtilissimi punctata, punctis in se- 

 riebus parallelis dispositis, zond fusco alboque tceniatd 

 et maculatd cinctd; spird convexd, maculis fuscis 

 albisque arcuatis tessel/atd. apire rosaceo. 



The riband-bound Cone. Shell turbinated, brownish- 

 violet or rose-colour, finely dotted with brown ; 

 dots arranged in parallel rows, and encircled round 

 the middle and lower parts with a white zone 

 spotted and filleted with brown ; spire convex, tes- 



June 1843. 



