CONUS. 179 
synonym very decidedly supports the received opinion, which 
needed some confirmation, inasmuch as Gualtier’s figure, though 
not unlike, can scarcely be positively pronounced intended for 
the Conus bullatus of authors (Reeve, Conch.Icon. vol. i. Con. 
f.93), and the account of the spire, in the ‘Museum Ulrice,’ 
hardly answers to that of the shell in question. 
Considering that the budlatus of authors had been figured by 
both Argenville (pl. 16, f. H) and Seba (pl. 42, f. 14, 15; pl. 43, 
f. 15, 16), it is passing strange that Linneus has not cited 
them. He did not himself possess the species, so that its ab- 
sence from his collection favours rather than discountenances 
the established determination. 
Cows tulipa. 
Three very distinct species, Conus achatinus (Argen.—Rump. 
L.), C. testudinarius (Rump. K.), and the C. tulipa of authors (Seba 
and Regenfuss), are confused in the synonymy of both editions 
of the ‘Systema,’ and answer nearly alike to the few require- 
ments of the diagnosis. As the name itself was taken from 
that applied by Argenville to the first of them, and the prepon- 
derance of synonyms in the tenth edition (where Seba was not 
quoted) likewise favoured achatinus, to which the important 
“ Simillimus geographo” in the concluding remarks served as 
a counterpoise, the absence of achatinus and the presence of 
the traditional tulipa (Sow. Conch. Ill. Con. f. 91) in the collec- 
tion of our author, who has recorded his possession of the spe- 
cies, and the circumstance that Martini’s figures (Conch. Cab. 
vol. ii. pl. 64, f. 718, 719) of the latter have been referred to as 
illustrative by the younger Linné, encourage our belief that the 
delineations of the other Cone were merely cited from the 
general resemblance they exhibited to the real tulipa. 
Couns geographus., 
The Conus geographus of authors (Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. 1. 
Con. f. 180) is marked for this species in the Linnean cabinet, 
