368 conus. 



ccerulescens. 27. Shell conical, transversely stri- 

 ated, and minutely granulated, glaucous with 

 irregular brown spots ; spire slightly elevated, 

 and the throat bluish. 



Conus coerulescens. Chemnitz, xi. p. 54. t. 182. f. 1762 

 and 1763. 



Inhabits the West Indian Seas on the coasts of the Island of 

 St. Thomas. Chemnitz. 



Shell about an inch and three-quarters long, and but very little 

 more than half as broad, in which it differs from C. charac- 

 teristicus, as also in being minutely granulated ; the spots 

 are similar, but the larger ones are formed with less regula- 

 rity into rows. 



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Piriform, rounded at the Base, and the body- 

 whirl half as long again as the spire. 



princeps. 28. Shell sub-conical, transversely stri- 

 ated at the base, and marked with longitudi- 

 nal branched lines ; spire coronated and con- 

 vex. 



Conus Princeps. Linneeus Syst. Nat. p. 1167- Schroe- 

 ter Einl. \. p. 30. t. 1. f. 3. Gmelin, p. 3378. 



Conus regius. Chemnitz, x. p. 17. t. 138. f. 1276. Bru- 

 guiere Enc. Meth. p. 617. Lamarck in Ann. du Mm. 

 p. 31. 



Conus, No. 56. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 30. 



La Robe Persienne. Favanne, ii. p. 546. t. 17- f. B. 



Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 138. Enc. Meth. t. 318. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean, and is extremely rare. Bruguiere. 



The shell described by Bruguiere is said to have been twenty- 

 two lines long, and near fourteen broad ; smooth, glossy, of 

 a pale rose colour, and marked with dark purple branched 

 longitudinal lines, interrupted by a white transverse band about 

 the middle of the body-whirl ; the transverse band is not 

 mentioned in Favanne's description, and his figure is far from 

 good. The shell which Martini supposed to be the Linnaean 

 C. Princeps, in the opinion of Bruguiere is only a variety of 

 C. ebnsm. 



