CONUS. 42 5 



Le Chotin. Adanson Senegal, p. 95. t. 6. f. 6. 

 Erie. Metk. t. 343. f. 7. 



Inhabits the coasts of Senegal. Adanson. 



Shell about an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long, 

 and not half as broad, and is more nearly allied to C. Radix 

 than to C. Jamaicensis ; from the former it differs in colour 

 and in the shape of its spire, and it is not much more than 

 half so broad, and far more cylindrical than the latter. 



augur. 135. Shell conical, grooved at the base, 

 white, with numerous transverse rows of 

 reddish dots, and two of oblong brown 

 streaks ; spire obtuse, and the whirls chan- 

 nelled. 



Conus Augur. Solander's MSS. Portland Cat. p. 44. 



lot 1046. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 685. Shaw's Nat. 



Misc. xxi. t. 896. Lamarck Ann. du Mas. xv. p. 277. 

 Conus punctatus. Gmelin, p. 3389- Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 38. 

 Conus Magus. Martini, ii. p. 288. t. 5S. f. 641. Born 



Mm. p. 164. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 50. Gmelin, p. 



3392. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 42. 

 U Enseigne Chinois. Favanne, ii. p. 463. 

 - Lister Conch, t. 755. f. 7. Rtimphius, t. 32. f. Q. Petiver 



Amb. t. 5. f. 10. Argenville App. t. 2. f. B. Knorr, 



vi. t. 13. f. 6. Enc. Meth. t. 333. f. 6, 

 Inhabits the coasts of Ceylon. Bruguiere. Amboyna. Shaw. 

 Shell one or two inches long, and may be readily known from 

 C. Magus by its being considerably more than half as broad. 

 As Bruguiere's C.pertusus is placed next to this species, it 

 may be here remarked that I have seen a specimen of C. 

 Nussatella, in which the granular dots had been polished off 

 so as to leave the places on which they stood deprived of the 

 enamel coat, and which had consequently been acted on by 

 the acids used in cleaning, so as to form minute hollow punc- 

 tures. C. pertusus of Bruguiere, C. Moluccensis of Chem- 

 nitz, (xi. p. 63. t. 183. f. 1780 and 1781.) and Le Cornet a 

 Trous of Favanne, (ii. p. 621. t. 79. f. M.) which differ 

 materially from each other both in shape and colour, are 

 described with punctured striae, and it appears rather doubt- 

 ful whether the punctures may not have been produced 

 either in the same or some other artificial manner. This 

 observation applies also to C. acutangiitus of Chemnitz, xi. 

 p. 59. t. 182. f. 1772 and 1773. 



