CONUS.— Plate XXII. 



gitudinally with dark reddish-brown, and encircled 

 with numerous fillets of the same colour articulated 

 with white ; spire concavely raised, apex sharp ; 

 interior purple. 



Broderip and Sowerbt, Zool. Journ., vol. iv. p. 379. 



Gray, Zool. Beechey's Voy., p. 119. pi. 33. f. 2. 



Hab. Pacific Ocean, near Mazatlan. 



This shell, originally imported in the Blossom, is now 

 common in collections. 



more strongly and fully stained with the dark reddish- 

 brown, and the interior of the shell exhibits no indica- 

 tion of any purple. 



Species 126. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus mahogani. Con. testa elongato-turbinatd, sub- 

 cylindraced, basim versus sulcatd ; albidd, spadieeo 

 profuse tinctd, tceniis frequentibus spadiceo albogue 

 articulatis cinctd ; spird valde elatd ; aperturte fauce 

 albd. 



The mahogany Cone. Shell elongately turbinated, 

 rather cylindrical, grooved towards the base ; 

 whitish, profusely stained with reddish-brown and 

 encircled with numerous fillets of the same colour 

 articulated with white ; spire very much raised ; 

 interior white. 



Reeve, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1843. 



Hab. Salango, West Columbia (found in sandy mud) ; 

 Cuming. 



This species differs from the preceding in having the 

 spire narrower and much more elevated ; it is always 



Species 127. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus gladiator. Con. testdsubinflato-turbinatd, basim 

 versus striata, brunned, albo obscure longitudinali- 

 ter strigatd, balteo subcentrali subobsoleto, albente, 

 cinctd; spird granuloso-striatd, brunned, leviter coro- 

 natd, tuberculis albis ; aperturd latiusculd ; epidermide 

 crassd, longitudinaliter rugosd, hie et illic tomentosd. 

 The gladiator Cone. Shell rather inflately turbinated, 

 striated towards the base ; brown, obscurely lon- 

 gitudinally streaked with white and encircled with 

 a rather obsolete nearly central white belt ; spire 

 granulously striated, brown, slightly coronated, 

 tubercles white, aperture rather wide ; epidermis 

 thick, rough longitudinally, here and there hairy 

 or tufted. 



Broderip, Pro. Zool. Soc, 1833. 



Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 34. 



Hab. Panama (found in soft sand in the clefts of rocks) ; 

 Cuming. 

 Mr. Broderip observes, "that the ground-colour of this 



shell is sometimes ash-colour with longitudinal chestnut 



stripes ; " it approaches nearest to the Conus brunneus, 



though readily distinguishable on account of the spire 



being more finely coronated. 



