CONUS.— Plate XLI. 



Species 223. (Fig. a and b, Mus. Stainforth.) 



Conus archiepiscopus. Con. testa ovato-turbinatd, ven- 

 tricosd, Icevi ; albd, caruleo et violaceo tinctd, ma- 

 ciilis ain-autiis subsparsis trifasciatim cinctd, lineis- 

 que aurantio-fuseis ubique subtiliss'wn undato-reti- 

 evlatd ; spird obtuso-e/atd. 



The archbishop Cone. Shell ovately turbinated, ven- 

 tricose, smooth ; white, stained with light blue or 

 violet, encircled with three bands of rather sprinkled 

 orange spots, and everywhere very finely reticulated 

 in a waved manner with orange-brown lines : spire 

 obtusely raised. 



Hwass, Enc. Meth. vers, vol. i. part 2. p. 747. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vii. p. 521. 



Hab. ? 



This verv rare species is chiefly distinguished by the 

 light waved character of the net-work, which is also re- 

 markably fine and close, and variously stained with pale 

 blue or violet. 



Species 58. (Fig. b, Mus. Stainforth.) 

 (Second notice.) 

 Conus varius. Variety /3. 



Testa albicante-roseo tincta, super/i'e obesior ; maeulis 

 grandibus fuscis perpaucis, distantibus, inter dum ob- 

 soletis. 



Shell tinged with pale rose-colour, stouter at the upper 

 part ; large brown spots very few, distant, some- 

 times obsolete. 

 Conus pulchellus, Sowerby (not of Swainson), Pro. 



Zool. Soc, 1S34; Conch. Illus., f. 61. 

 Conns interruptus, Wood. Ind. Test. Supp. 



Hab. Gallapagos Islands (found in the clefts of rocks at 

 low water) ; Cuming. 



This shell is unquestionably a variety of the Conus 

 varius described at Plate XIII. 



