conus. 423 



striatus. 1S7. Shell ovate-oblong, white, with 

 brown spots, and bands marked with crowd- 

 ed parallel transverse lines ; spire acute with 

 the lower whirls concave. 



Conus striatus. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1171. Martini, 

 ii. p. 351. t. 64. f. 714 to 716. Born Mus. p. 165. 

 Schroeter Einl. i. p. 51. Gmelin, p. 3393. Schreibers 

 Conch, i. p. 42. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 725. La- 

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

 L' Ecorchee bruue. Favanne, ii. p. Q66. t. 19- upper 



fig.N. 

 Lister Conch, t. 760. f. 6. Rumphius, t. 31. f. F. Peti- 

 ver Gaz. t. 98. f. 9, and Amb. t. 15. f. 4. Gualter, t. 

 26. f. D. Valentyn Abh. t. 7. f. 60 and 61. Argenville, 

 t. 13. f. C. Seba, iii. t. 42. f. 5 to 9- Knorr, i. t. 18. 

 f. 1 ; iii. t. 12. f. 5, t. 21. f. 1, and t. 22. f. 4. Regenfuss, 

 i. t. 8. f. 13. Enc. Meth. t. 340. f. 1, 2 and 3. 

 Inhabits the African Ocean. Linnaus. Coasts of Hitoe in 

 the East Indies. Rumphius. Frederick's Island. Regenfuss. 

 Isle of France, Madagascar and the Moluccas. Favanne. 

 Otaheite. Solander. 

 Shell varying from two to about three and a half inches long, 

 and the breadth rather exceeds two fifths of the length ; the 

 white ground is sometimes tinged with blue or flesh-colour, 

 and the spots vary in different specimens from yellowish to 

 purplish or blackish brown, and are marked with darker nu- 

 merous very fine parallel transverse lines. 



gubernator. 138. Shell oblong-conical, grooved 

 at the base, reddish white, with irregular 

 spots or longitudinal undulated stripes, and 

 two transverse brown bands; spire mucro- 

 nated, and the lower whirls concave. 



Conus Gubernator. Solander's MSS. Bruguiere Enc. 



Meth. p. 727. 

 Conus Terminus. Lamarck in Ann du Mus. xv. p. 426. . ? 

 L' Ecorchee orangee. Favanne, ii. p. 481. 

 Enc. Method, t. 340. f. 4, 5, and 6. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Bruguiere. 



Shell about two and a half, or three inches long, and near- 

 ly half as broad ; M. Bruguiere says the body- whirl is 

 slightly contracted in the middle, and is more ventricose at 

 the upper extremity than in C. striatus, from which it also 



