380 conus. 



nobilis. 45. Shell somewhat cylindrical, yellow, 

 with white scattered spots ; spire depressed, 

 mucronated, and the whirls concave. 



Conus nobilis. Linnccus Syst. Nat. p. 1168. Martini, 



ii. p. 335. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 36. Gmelin, p. 3381. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 24. Bruguiere Eric. Meth. p. 



715. Lamarck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 425. 

 Conus Cervulus. Meuschen Mus. Gevers. p. 362, No. 



1056. 

 Variety A. Sub-reticulated, with heart-shaped white spots. 

 Le Damier Chinois. Favanne, ii. p. 580. t. 14. f. E 2. 

 Argenville, t. 12. f. M. Seba, iii. t. 43. f. 13 and 14. 



Martini, ii. t. 62. f. 689- Chemnitz, x. t. 141. f. 1312. 



Enc. Meth. t. 339- f. 8. 

 Variety B. With the heart-shaped spots interrupted by two 

 or three transverse bands composed of dotted lines. 

 Le Damier Chinois a bandes. Favanne, ii. p. 452. 

 Chemnitz, x. 1. 141. f. 1313 and 1314. Enc. Meth. t. 339- 



f. 7. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Seba. Moluccas. Bru- 

 guiere. China. Humphreys. 

 This scarce shell is about two inches and a half long, and half 

 as broad, very glossy, and strongly emarginated at the base. 

 In the Portland Catalogue it is said to inhabit the Mediter- 

 ranean, but this is probably an error. Schreibers has most 

 strangely referred to Chemnitz, fig. 1313 and 1314, both as 

 a separate species, No. 27, and as a Variety of C. striatus. 



siamensis. 46. Shell conical, yellowish, with white 

 bands and numerous spotted narrow belts ; 

 spire conical and mucronated. 



Conus Siamensis. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 662. La- 

 marck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 270. 



L'Amiral Chinois. Favanne, ii. p. 624. 1. 16. f. B. 



JRumphius, t. 34. f. E. Petiver Amb. t. 4. f. 13. Seba, 

 iii. t. 46. f. 20 and 21. 

 Inhabits the coasts of China. Favanne. 

 Shell generally two inches and a half or three inches long, and 



about three fifths as broad, and Bruguiere has mentioned a 



specimen five inches long, in the cabinet of M. Hwass at 



Paris. 



genuanus. 47. Shell conical, smooth, reddish, 



