352 



<3tnu& XX 4 



CONUS: 



SHELL UNIVALVE, CONVOLUTED AND TURBINATED ; 

 APERTURE EFFUSE, LONGITUDINAL, LINEAR, WITH- 

 OUT TEETH, AND ENTIRE AT THE BASE; PILLAR 

 SMOOTH. 



Sub-divisions. ,*|" 



* Spire somewhat truncated. 

 *# Pyriform, rounded at the base, and the body- 

 whirl half as long again as the spire. 

 # # # Elongated and rounded at the base ; the body- 

 whirl as long again as the spire. 

 # # * # Ventricose with a wide aperture. 



* Spire somewhat truncated. 



marmoreus. 1. Shell conical, brown, with ovate 

 sub-angular white spots; spire coronated, 

 and the whirls channelled. 

 Conus marmoreus. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1 165. Born 

 Mus. p. 146. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 22. Gmelin, p. 

 3374. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 8. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. 

 p. 608. Shaw Nat. Misc. vi. t. 211. Lamarck, in An- 

 nates du Mus. xv. p. 29, and Syst. des Anim. p. 7 1 . 

 Variety A. Nearly black, with large angular white spots. 



t Gmelin's C. Sinensis, p. 3394, and C. violaceus, p. 3391, appear to me to be 

 undeserving of notice. 



