CONUS.— Supp. Plate IX. 



throughout, grooves rather distant, pricked, spire 

 striately grooved; livid ash colour, variegated in a 

 banded interrupted style with chestnut, sprinkled 

 towards the base with opake-white flakes, spire con- 

 spicuously spotted with chestnut, interior of the 

 aperture livid purple. 

 Conns Nisus, Kiener, Icon. coq. viv. pi. 59. f. 4. (not of 



Chemnitz.) 

 Conns roseus, Kiener, Icon. coq. viv. pi. 107. f- 4. (not of 

 Lamarck.) 



Hab. ? 



1 am much indebted to M. Gubba for the loan of the 

 shells figured as above by M. Kiener, to whom I have the 

 pleasure of dedicating the species. The essential specific 

 characters of both shells are the same, and neither agrees 

 with the C. Nisus of Chemnitz which represents the cseru- 

 lescent variety of C. cinerea. 



Species 283. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Conus scitulus. Con. testa subtrigono-turbinatd, lavi 

 basi subtiliter striato-sulcatd, spird elevatinsculd, tenui- 

 sulcata; pallide cocchied, anfractuum margine alba 

 radiis fuscis linearibus, medio albi-fasciatd, puncti 

 maculisque hieroglyphicis promiscue pictd: 



The trim Cone. Shell somewhat triangularly turbina 

 ted, smooth, finely striately grooved at the base 

 spire shghtly raised, finely grooved; pale scarlet 

 upper edge of the whorls white, crossed with browi 

 linear rays, white-banded in the middle, and promis 

 cuously painted with dots and hieroglyphic spots. 



Hab. ? 



It is difficult to describe the painting of this species 

 which is extremely characteristic, the white edge of tb 

 whorls being divided into compartments with brown rad 

 ated lines, as in many specimens of C. Algoensis. 



NOTICE. 



The author regrets to observe that at Supp. PI. IV. the numbers of the species and figures were takeu up fifty in arrear and so continm 

 Sp. 287 having been printed Sp. 237. The numbers on the plates agree throughout with the numbers in the text, but the species have be 

 twice numbered 237 to 287 instead of 287 to 337. 



