conus. 427 



canonicus. 144. Shell sub-cylindrical, brown, 

 reticulated with crowded very unequal white 

 angular spots ; spire acuminated, and the up- 

 per whirls coronated. 



Conus Canonicus. Lamarck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 436. 

 Conus Canonicus, Var. B. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 749. 

 Knorr, iii. t. 18. f. 2. Enc. Meth. t. 345. f. 1. 



Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Bruguiere. 



Shell about two inches long, and eleven lines broad ; and may 

 be readily distinguished by its far more cylindrical form from 

 the variety C, of C. Archiepiscopus, with which it agrees in 

 having the aperture tinged with rose-colour ; the spire con- 

 sists of twelve slightly concave whirls, of which the five up- 

 permost are of a rose-colour, and somewhat coronated. 



episcopus. 145. Shell sub-cylindrical-oblong, dark 

 brown, with triangular white spots, and trans- 

 verse dotted lines ; spire obtuse. 

 Conus Episcopus. Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 748. Lamarck 



in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 436. 

 Conus decoratus. Solander's MSS. Callone's Cat. p. 15. 



No. 247. 

 Conus Aulicus, Var. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 54. Gmelin, p. 

 3394. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 44. 

 Variety A. With large white spots, forming three irregular 

 transverse rows. 



Le Drap d'or a filets. Favanne, ii. p. 472. 

 Knorr, ii. t. 1. f. 3. Martini, ii. t. 53. f. 591. Enc. Meth. 

 t. 345. f. 2 and 6. 

 Variety B. With white spots, nearly equally small. 

 Conus, No. 68. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 43. 

 Le Drap d'or brun. Favanne, ii. p. 472. 

 Lister Conch, t. 790. f. 43. Seba, iii. t. 43. f. 6. 

 Inhabits the East Indian Seas. Bruguiere. 

 Shell two or three inches long, and about half as broad ; the 

 variety B is smaller, and has small triangular spots covering 

 the whole shell, while in A, three transverse rows are much 

 larger than the others ; both varieties are marked with nu- 

 merous transverse dark lines dotted with white. 



PRJELATUS. 146. Shell conical-oblong, yellow, 

 with transverse dotted lines, and two bands 

 variegated with brown, white, grey, and flesh 

 colour ; spire acute. 



