CONUS.— Supp. Plate I. 



published the species in his ' Anirnaux sans vertebres ' and 

 referred to the figure which accompanied it in the Ency- 

 clopedic Mcthodique (re-produced by Kiener in his mono- 

 graph of the genus lately issued), but the shell was unknown 

 to him, and it has not been identified until now. The figure 

 in Martini which is referred to both by Bruguiere and 

 Lamarck in illustration of this species, does not agree with 

 the more authentic one in the Encyclopedic Mcthodique, 

 and Gmebn's name C.fulmineus, founded on the former 

 without a knowledge of the shell, may therefore remain in 

 obscurity. 



Species 272. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus pyramidalis. Con. testa stibelongato-eonied, 

 lavigaid, basi subtil iter striata ; cceruleo et incarnato 

 tinctd, reticuld purpureo-fuscd, /i//eis longitudinaliter 



inclinatis pictd, maculis rnfescente-aurantiis perpaucis 

 bifasciatim cinctd. 



The pyramidal Cone. Shell somewhat elongately 

 conical, smooth, finely striated at the base ; stained 

 blue and flesh-colour, painted with a purple-brown 

 net-work, the lines being inclined longitudinally, and 

 encircled with two bands of reddish orange spots, 

 very few in number. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes' edit.) v. xi. p. 125. 



Ilab ? 



This is certainly distinct from the C. canonicus to which 

 it bears considerable resemblance, and has been received 

 by Mr. Cuming from good authority at Paris as identical 

 with Lamarck's C. pyramidalis, of which an apparently 

 acuminately distorted example is figured in the Encyclo- 

 pedic Methodique. 



