CONUS.— Plate XX. 



Species 113. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus musicus. Con. testd turbinate!, albidd, cinereo 

 pallide zonatd, Uneis transversis interruptis nigerrimo- 

 fuscis cinctd ; spird planiusculd, nigerrimo-fusco mu- 

 culatd; apertures fauce nigricante-violaceo tinctd. 



The music-score Cone. Shell turbinated, whitish, 

 zoned with a pale washy ash-colour, and encircled 

 with transverse interrupted blackish-brown lines ; 

 spire rather flat, spotted with blackish-brown ; in- 

 terior stained with blackish-violet. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth.vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 629. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 456. 



Hab. West Indies ; Captain Powers. 



I have every reason to believe that the locality men- 

 tioned by Lamarck for this species, quoted from Bru- 

 guiere, is incorrect. 



Species 114. (Mus. Deshayes.) 



Conus daucus. Con. testd turlinatd, ad basim leviter 

 sulcatd; anrantio-rubrd, maculis pallidulis, punctis- 

 que rubido-fuscis sparsis, seriatim disposit is, plus mi- 

 nusve cinctd ; spird depressd, maculis pallidulis ru- 

 bidisque arcuatis tessellatd ; apice roseo. 



The wild-carrot Cone. Shell turbinated, slightly 

 grooved at the base ; orange-red, more or less en- 

 circled with rows of palish spots and scattered 

 reddish-brown dots ; spire depressed, tessellated 

 with arched spots of pale and reddish-brown ; apex 

 rose-tinted. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth.vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 651. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 468. 



Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 27. 

 Conus Arausiensis, Chemnitz. 



Hab. Seas of America ; Lamarck. 



This shell is rarely to be met with in good condition; 

 the specimen here figured, kindly lent to me by M. Des- 

 hayes, is the best I have seen, though not displaying 

 much variety of character in the painting. 



Species 115. (Fig. 115 a, Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus Mindanus. Con. testd turbinatd, basim versus 

 profundi sulcatd; pallide incarnatd, puniceo variegatd 

 et nebulosd, punctis lineolisque rufis exilissimis seria- 

 tim cinctd; spird acuminata, indistincte coronatd, 

 punctorum serie unicd prope suturam ornatd. 



The Mindanao Cone. Shell turbinated, deeply grooved 

 towards the base ; pale flesh-colour clouded and 



variegated with scarlet, and encircled with rows of 

 exceedingly fine dots and lines of red ; spire acu- 

 minated, indistinctly coronated, and ornamented 

 with a row of fine red dots near the suture. 



Variety /3. (Fig. 115 b, Mus. Deshayes.) 



Testa granulosa, granulis subdistantibus, prominentibus ; 

 spird valdiiis coronatd, tuberculis granulisque albis. 



Shell granulated, granules prominent and rather distant ; 

 spire more strongly coronated ; tubercles and gra- 

 nules white. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth. vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 711. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 498. 

 Conus Elventinus, Duclos. 



Hab. Island of Mindanao, Philippines ; Hwass. 



The locality from which this shell receives its title is 

 quoted by Lamarck and others on the sole testimony of 

 M. Hwass, published fifty years ago in the ' Encyclopedic 

 Methodique.' During Mr. Cuming's late researches at 

 Mindanao and other islands of that prolific group, not a 

 single specimen was found. 



Species 116. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus puncticulatus. Con. testd subobeso-turbinatd, 

 solidd, basim versus leviter sulcatd ; albidd, punctorum 

 fuscorum seriebus approximatis , ftammis cesruleo- 

 fuscis, longitudinalibus, subindistinctis, ornatd; spird 

 convexo-acutd ; apertures fauce pallide violaced. 



The small dotted Cone. Shell rather stoutly turbi- 

 nated, solid, lightly grooved towards the base ; 

 whitish, painted with close-set rows of brown dots 

 and rather indistinct longitudinal flames of bluish- 

 brown ; spire convexly acute ; interior of the aper- 

 ture pale violet. 



Variety /3. 



Testa obesior, pallide cceruleo-cinerea, granulosa, punctis 

 pallidioribus, flammis longitudinalibus nullis. 



Shell stouter, pale bluish ash-colour, dots paler, no lon- 

 gitudinal flames. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth. vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 704. 



Hab. Salango and St. Elena, West Columbia (found in 

 sandy mud at the depth of from five to nine fathoms) ; 

 Cuming. 



The title of C. millepunctatus , given to this shell by 

 Chemnitz, is retained for the large species allied to the 

 C. literatus, vulgarly called " Le Tigre mille points" by 

 Favanne and others. 



