CONUS.— Plate XL. 



assume the appearance of broad interrupted transverse 

 lines, in others that of longitudinal or waved lines, 

 and these again are often heaped together in large 

 irregular patches. The Conus leoninus is the nearest 

 allied species to the Conus Proteus, and is said to differ 



in the spots being always smaller and more numerous ; 

 for my own part I now regard them merely as varieties 

 of the same, and much regret having separated them in 

 this monograph. 



