358 conus. 



whereas others have two or three, and the spots vary much 

 in size, shape, and colour ; the whirls of the spire are gener- 

 ally marked with dark brown transverse stripes. Lamarck 

 has arranged all those Varieties which have three transverse 

 bands, as a separate species, with the name of C. Arabicus. 



eburneus. 9, Shell conical, white, with transverse 

 rows of dark quadrangular spots, and the 

 base transversely grooved ; whirls of the spire 

 longitudinally striated. 



Conus eburneus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 640. La- 

 marck in Ann. du Mas. xv. p. 263. 

 Gualter, t. 22. f. F. 



Knorr, i. t. 17. f. 4, and iii. t. 3. f. 2. Martini, ii. t. 61. 

 f. 674. Enc. Meth. t. 324. f. 1 and 2. 



Inhabits the East Indian Ocean. Bruguiere. 



This shell rarely exceeds an inch and three-quarters in length, 

 and is nearly two thirds as broad. It differs from C. liter- 

 atus, not only in being smaller and proportionably broader, 

 but also in being strongly grooved transversely at the base, 

 and in having an indented double line on the spire which 

 follows the course of the whirls. I have a shell differing 

 from this only in having eight deep longitudinal grooves on 

 the body-whirl, and Bruguiere considers it to be a Variety 

 of this species. 



tessellatus. 10. Shell conical, white, with trans- 

 verse rows of red spots ; base violet, and 

 slightly grooved transversely. 



Conus tessulatus. Born Mus. p. 151. 

 Conus tessellatus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 641. La- 

 marck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 263. 

 Conus lithostratus. Meuschen Mus. Gevers, p. 348, No. 



943. 

 Conus Virgo, Var. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 28. Gmelin, p. 



3376. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 11. 

 Le Pave d'ltalie. Favanne, ii. p. 598. t. J 6. f. A 1, and 



A 2. 

 Lister Conch, t. 767- f. 17. Gualter, t. 21. f. H. Seba, 

 iii. t. 53. f. 4 to 6. Knorr, ii. t. 12. f. 3, and.vi. t. 1 1. 

 f. 4. Regenfuss, i. t. 8. f. 19. Martini, ii. t. 59. f. 653 

 and 654. Enc. Meth. t. 326. f. 7 and 9- 

 Inhabits the African Ocean. Martini. Isles of France, Bor- 

 neo, the Moluccas and Batavia. Favanne. Coasts of Ma- 

 labar. Bruguiere. Madagascar. Humphreys. 



