conus. 397 



Variety. Whitish, variegated with orange. 



Regenfuss, i. t. 3. f. 37- Martini, ii. t. 55. f. 60S. 



Inhabits the coasts of Surinam, St. Domingo, and Martinique. 

 Favanne. Guinea. Humphreys. 



Shell one, two, or sometimes three inches long, and rather 

 more than half as broad ; the colour is whitish, or pale ci- 

 nereous, clouded and spotted with dark grey, which forms 

 two irregular broad transverse bands on the body-whirl. 

 M. Bruguiere says that La Peau de Serpent or an gee of 

 Favanne, ii. p. 468, is a variety which differs in its orange 

 colour, in being smaller, and in having the transverse bands 

 narrower. 



venulatus. 78. Shell conical-ovate, striated at the 

 base, white, with somewhat reticulated yel- 

 lowish stripes; spire convex. 



Conus venulatus. Bruguiere Erie. Meth. p. 695. Lamarck 



in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 280. 

 Variety A. Reticulated and marked with three rows of irre- 

 gular yellowish or brownish orange spots. 

 Le Bois veine. Favanne, ii. p. 604. t. 14. f. D 1. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 337. f. 9. 



Variety B. Reticulated with brownish orange, and marked 

 with two transverse brown bands. 

 Le Bois veine a bandes. Favanne, ii. p. 605. 1. 14. f. D 2. 



Inhabits the coasts of Manilla, and the American Seas. Fa- 

 vanne. 



C. venulatus, according to Favanne, is two or three inches 

 long, and two thirds as broad ; but Bruguiere describes his 

 specimen to have measured only twenty-one by eighteen 

 lines. 



namocanus. 79. Shell conical, yellowish, with nu- 

 merous transverse darker bands, and inter- 

 mediate lines ; spire obtuse, striated, with the 

 two first whirls slightly concave, and the 

 others convex. 



Conus Namocanus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 712. La- 

 marck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 422. 

 Enc. Method, t. 338. f. 5. 



Inhabits the South Sea about the Island of Namoca. Bru- 

 guiere. 



Shell three inches and a quarter long, and an inch and three 



