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I have much pleasure in naming this interesting species, at the 

 desire of the Rev. Mr. Stainforth, in honour of WiUiam Metcalfe, 

 Esq., a gentleman whose zeal for collecting and identifying the more 

 minute and less attractive species of shells is highly serviceable to 

 science. 



CoNUS Victoria. Con. testa ovato-turbinatd, tenui, snbinjlatd, 

 transversim striatd ; nlbidd, ccesio longitudinal iter inqiiinafd, ina- 

 ctdis grandibus, subsolitariis, aurantiis, fusco umhihitn-virgitiis, 

 trifasciatim ornatd, interstitiis auraniio-fnsco sidi/iliss/iiw rcticu- 

 latis ; spird elevato-exsertd, apice acutissimo ; aperturd latiusculd, 

 fauce pallide casid. 

 Var. (3. Testa maculis am-antiis mnjoribus, tnfasciatim coalescenti- 



bus ; strigis fnscis longitudinalibus pi-ominentioribus. 

 Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 37. f. 202. 



Hab. Mouth of the Victoria River, New Holland ; H.M.S. Beagle. 

 This highly interesting species must be seen to be appreciated, it 

 being quite impossible to do justice either by drawing or description 

 to its elaborate configuration. It is perhaps next allied to the 

 Conns canonicus, but is of much lighter and more inflated growth ; 

 tbc three rows of brown-striped orange blotches are peculiar to it ; 

 the net-work is finer, and of a much more delicate and tremulous 

 character, and the interior of the aperture, instead of being pink, is 

 of the same greyish blue colour which characterizes the outer sur- 

 face. 



I take the liberty of attaching Her Majesty's name to this beauti- 

 ful shell, from the circumstance of its having been lately discovered 

 in a locality dedicated in like manner to the same fair patroness of 

 the sciences. 



The two specimens here figured, recently in my possession, were 

 collected during the late surveying expedition of H.M.S. Beagle. 

 Mr. Cuming and the Rev. Mr. Stainforth each possess several ex- 

 amples. 



Conus scalptus. Con. testa turbinatd, solidiusculd, politd, basim 

 versus sulcatd ; albidd, fiUs rubidis numerosis, rariter interruptis, 

 cinctd; spird elevatd, spiraliter striatd, rubra variegatd, apice 

 acuto. 

 Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 37. f. 203. 



Hab. > 



This is a new and very distinct species ; the transverse lines ex- 

 hibit the appearance of scratches and are very characteristic. M. 

 Chenu of Paris proposed describing this shell under the title of C. 

 radiatus, but that name has been apphed to another species by Gme- 

 lin, though not acknowledged. 



Conus mucronatus. Con. testa acuminato-turbinatd, basim versus 

 attenuatd, transversim sulcatd, sulcis striis longitudinalibus can- 

 cel lat is ; albidd, fusco pallide tinctd et variegatd; spird elato- 

 exsertd, fusco pallide maculatd, apice mucronato, acuto. 



Conch. Icon., Conus, pi. 37. f. 204. 



Hab. Islands of Burias, Siquijor, Penay, &c., Philippines ; Cuming. 



