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obsolète pertusis, numerosis transversim cincta, pallide 

 castaneo-fusca, albo late maculata; spira parum elevata, 

 apice ohlusulo; sutura leviter impressa ; anfr. 8 inconspi- 

 cue gradati, lente accrescentes, série tuberculorum coro- 

 nati, ultimus obtuse angulatus, ad angulum tuberculis 15 

 minulis coronatus, basi attenuatus, seriebus transversis , 

 interruplis 2 niaculaj'um albarum, altéra versus et paulo 

 influa angulum sita, altéra mediana irregulariter ornatus; 

 apertura elongata, angusta, intus livide castaneo-fusca, 

 maculis albis transmeantibus ; margo externus acutus. — 

 Long. '\i,diam. maj. 7 1/2 mill. Apert. 12 mill. longa^ 

 \ 1/2 lata. (Coll. Rossiter.) 



Habitat in Nova Caledonia, Specimina 2 hactenus inno- 

 tuerunt, alterum in collectione Bossiteri, altei^um paulo 

 majus in collectione R. P. Lamberti. 



Obs. Species C. speciosissimo Reevei, insulœ Curaçao 

 dictœ, Antillarum incolœ, colore, forma et corona tubercu- 

 lorum v aide vicina,dif fer t patria et lirisaîifractus ultimi 

 obsolète pertusis. 



2. CoNus suFFUscs, Sowerby. 



Conus sufîusus, Sowerby, Proceed. zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 2^0, pi. XXII, fig. 9, 1870. 



Var. p Noumeensis^ obtuse coronatn, cylindraceo-co7iica, 

 crassiuscula, liris numerosis^ subobsoletis , vix tremulis, 

 transversim cincta, sub epidermide tenui, fulvido-flava, 

 pallide carneo'lutescens ; spira parum elevata, subdC' 

 pressa; sutura mediocriter impressa; anfr. 8-9 planius- 

 culi, sensim accrescenles, ultimus supra obtuse angulatus^ 

 ad angulum tuberculis obtusis, ad occursum marginis 

 externi subevanidis coronaius^infra médium vix inflatus, 

 basi attenuatus ; apertiira elongata, angusta, versus basin 



