conus. 419 



body-whirl has a white transverse band, and a row of brown or 

 purplish spots in the middle ; the form is somewhat conical, 

 and the base narrow. 



fusus. 130. Shell sub-conical elongated, trans- 

 versely ribbed, and dull yellowish white; 

 spire conical, striated, with the whirls con- 

 vex and channelled at the sutures. 

 Conus Fusus. Gmelin, p. 3390. 

 Conus verulosus. Solanders MSS. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. 



p. 71.9. Lamarck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p, 427. 

 ""Conus Nussatella, Var. f. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 40. 

 Conus, No. 9. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 61. 

 Le Bout de Chandelle. Favanne, ii. p. 660. t. 15. f. G3. 

 Lister Conch, t. 768. f. 17 A. Martini, ii. t. 52. f. 576. 

 Enc. Meth. t. 341. f. 7. 

 Inhabits the West Indian Seas. Humphreys. 

 Shell from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a half long, 

 and nearly half as broad ; it is of a dull yellowish white, like 

 the colour of tallow, sometimes marked with paler obsolete 

 interrupted bands, and becoming of a purer white towards the 

 base. Favanne considered it to be only a variety of C. or a - 

 nulatus. b 



aurisiacus. 131. Shell conical sub-elongated, of 

 a flesh colour, with white bands, and narrow 

 spotted ribs; spire conical, and the whirls 

 concave. 



Conus Aurisiacus. Linnceus Si/st. Nat. -p. 1170. Martini ii. 



p. 282. t. 57. f. 636 and 637. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 49! 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 41. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 



720. Shaw Nat. Misc. xiii. t. 502. upper fig. La- 

 marck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 426. 

 Conus Arausiacus. Gmelin, p. 3392. 

 L'Amiral d'Orange. Favanne, ii. p. 663. t. 17. f. K 1. 

 Rumphius, t. 34. f. A. Petiver Amb. t. 7. f. 7. Argen- 



ville App. t. 1. f. I. Seba, hi. t. 48. f. 7. Knorr, i. t. 



8. f. 3, and v. t. 24. f. 1. Regenfuss, ii. t. 12. f. 53. 



Enc. Meth. t. 339. f. 4. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Ceram and 



IJanda. Favanne. 

 Shell about two inches and a quarter long, and half as broad, 

 and in form much resembles many of the shells which have 

 been placed in the second division ; the narrow slightly ele- 

 vated transverse ribs are white, with dark brown spots. 

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