C N U S. 



Plate XVIII. 



Species 95. (Mus. Stainforth.) 



Conus maculiperus. Con. testa abbreviato-turMiiatd, 

 subventricosd; alba, maculis grandibus aurantio-fuscis 

 lonyitudinaliter confuentibus, biseriatim dispositis, vi- 

 vide pictd ; basi striata, rosaced ; spird subdepressd, 

 eximie coronatd, apice rosaceo. 



The blotched Cone. Shell shortly turbinated, slightly 

 ventricose ; white, vividly painted with two rows of 

 large longitudinally flowing orange-brown blotches; 

 base striated ; spire rather depressed, delicately co- 

 ronated, apex rose-colour. 



Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 23. 



Hob. ? 



This is a very distinct species, and one which cannot 

 fail to be appreciated. 



Species 96. (Mus. Stainforth.) 



Conus sphacelatus. Con. testa turbinatd, solidiusculd, 

 transversim exiliter liratd; albd, maculis grandibus 

 olivaceis, biseriatim dispositis, vivide pictd ; spird ob- 

 tuso-elatd, eximie. coronatd, apice rosaceo. 



The mortified Cone. Shell turbinated, rather solid, 

 transversely very faintly ridged ; white, vividly 

 painted with two rows of large olive blotches ; 

 spire obtusely elevated, delicately coronated, apex 

 rose-colour. 



Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 51. 



Hub. ■ ? 



The general character of the painting of this species 

 is not much unlike that of the preceding, inasmuch as it 

 presents a double row of large coloured blotches upon a 

 white ground ; and a resemblance may also be observed 

 in the spire of both shells being finely coronated and 

 rose-tinted at the apex ; the Conus sphacelatus differs 

 however from the Conus maculi/erus in form, solidity, 

 and other minor particulars. 



Species 97. (Mus. Stainforth.) 



Contjs columba. Con. testa obeso-turbinatd, solidd, ba- 

 sim versus profundi sulcata ; albd, interdvm, autem 

 rarh, maculis fuscis perpaucis, spar sis, pallide tinctd ; 

 spird convcxd, canaliatlatd. 



The dove Cone. Shell stoutly turbinated, solid, deeply 

 grooved towards the base ; white, sometimes, hut 



rarely, stained with a very few scattered faint brown 



spots ; spire convex, canaliculated. 

 Hwass, Enc. Meth. vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 709. 

 Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 499. 

 Hub. West Indies. 



I believe the shell figured in the Encyclopedie Metho- 

 dique, pi. 331. f. 3, noted by Lamarck as a large variety 

 of this species, to be the Conus lactcus. 



Species 98. (Mus. Stainforth.) 



Conus pictus. Con. testa oblong o -turbinatd, tenuiculd, 

 subventricosd, puniceo brunneove et albo alternatim 

 fasciatd,fasciis interstitiisque/usco alboque identidem 

 tceniatd et variegatd ; spird convexo-elatd, ad mar- 

 ginem peculiariter strigatd, aperturd subinflatd. 



The painted Cone. Shell oblong-turbinated, rather 

 light and ventricose, alternately banded with palish 

 scarlet or brown, the bands and interstices beine: 

 here and there filleted and variegated with brown or 

 brownish-scarlet and white ; spire convexly raised, 

 the edge being peculiarly streaked. 



Reeve, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1843. 



Hab. ? 



The painting of this pretty shell is of very peculiar 

 character, and I know of no other species with which 

 any comparison can well be instituted. The most cha- 

 racteristic of two specimens now before me exhibits 

 (vide Fig. 98.) three broad pale scarlet bands, the lower 

 being ornamented with two articulated fillets of brown 

 and white, the middle with one only, whilst in the up- 

 per band the fillet is altogether wanting. The spaces 

 between the bands are curiously variegated with brown 

 (scarlet-brown), and the base and upper edge of the shell 

 are obliquely streaked with the same colour ; the latter 

 part in such a manner as to leave a neat spiral necklace 

 of short streaks upon the surface of the spire. This is 

 however too detailed a description to apply correctly to 

 the second specimen (from Mr. Cuming's collection^, in 

 which the articulated fillets are more confused, though 

 the necklace of short streaks is as clearly defined around 

 the edge of the spire. 



I have adopted the same specific title for this shell 

 which has been usct! by Mr. Stainforth in manuscript to 



July 1843. 



