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present species. Thus the Sub-apennine shells, described by Brocchi, and those from 
Perpignan and Cassel, recorded by Sismonda, have been separated by Bronn under 
the name C. Brocchii ; while to those from Dax and Gaas, described by Grateloup, 
M. D’Orbigny has given the name C. Gratelouwpi ; and he has referred to the same 
species certain shells described by Pusch, to which Eichwald had given the name 
C. argillecola. The cones described by Mr. Sowerby as belonging to the present 
species are young shells of C. diadema. 
Dr. Beyrich (‘Die Conchylien des Norddeutschen tertiirgebirges,’ vol. i, p. 24) 
has described some shells from the North German tertiaries, which he has referred to 
C. Alliont (Michel.), but which agree so well with the present species, that it is 
difficult to separate them. That author states that, in C. deperditus of the Paris 
basin, the shells are comparatively wider, the concentric lines on the margins of the 
whorls more strongly marked, and the angles at the shoulders sharper than in 
the German specimens. These differences do not appear to be greater than may be 
fairly attributed to variations of local conditions, and I have therefore cited Dr. 
Beyrich’s shell, but with a query. The English shells are wider, and appear to have 
attained a greater size, than the French shells ; and the edges of the shoulders, instead 
of being somewhat sharp and elevated, as in the latter, are rounded or flattened 
obliquely ; in all other respects our shells agree so well, that I have no doubt of their 
specific identity. 
Size.—Axis, 23 inches, nearly (63 millim.); diameter, 1 inch and 5-12ths (36 
millim.). 
Localities —Bracklesham Bay, Bramshaw (New Forest), at which places they are 
not uncommon. rench—Grignon, Parnes, Mouchy, Courtagnon, &c. (fide Desh.) 
Belgian—Afflighem (fide Galeotti), Rouge-Cloitre, Saint Josse-ten-Noode and Groenen- 
dael (fide Myst). German—Westeregeln in Magdeburgh, Hermsdorf, Freinwalde and 
Buckow, and Freden, near Alfeld (fide Beyrich). Ttalian—La Palarca (fide Bellardi) ? 
No. 126. Conus vexatus, Sowerby. Tab. XXIV, fig. 12. 
Conus VELATUS, Sow. 1841. Min. Con., vol. vii, p. 27, t. 623, fig. 7. 
— — Morris. 1843. Cat. Brit. Foss., p. 143. 
— — Sow. 1850. Dixon’s Geol., &c., of Sussex, pp. 108 and 189, t. 8, fig. 17. 
— — Morris. 1854. Cat. Brit. Foss., p. 244. 
C. testa levi, oblonga, turbinatd, antice sub-productd ; transversim obsolete sulcatd ; 
spird conicd, prominuld, trientem totius teste longitudine paulo superanti: anfractibus 
angulatis, inermibus ; marginibus posticis declivis, sub-concavis, lineas concentricas et rugas 
