C O N U S vitulinus, xY/; 



Orange Fox Cone, 

 Broivn-tipp' d variety. 



Generic Character. — See PI. 65. 



Specific Character. 



C. testd fulvd seu fuscd^ fasciis 2 interruptis ornatd ; spirce brevis, 



levatee, conicce, maculattt anfractibus concaxis, subgranose striatis ; 



basi granosd, alba. 

 Var. testa Jlareiceiite, fasciis obscuris, subalbidis ornatd ; basi rufd. 



{Fig. 710S.) 

 Shell fulvous or brown, with 2 interrupted white bands ; spire short, 



elevated, conic, spotted, volutions concave vpith subgranulated 



striee ; base granulated, white. 

 Conus vitulinus. Brvg.p.64S. Lamarck. Ann. 15. p. 265. Knorr, 



vol. 5. tab. I. Jig. 4 {optimc). Dillwyn 377. 

 Var. Shell yellowish, with obscure whitish bands ; the base rufous. 



1 RECEIVED this very uncommon shell from the Island of 

 Amboyna; and although in size and colour it is widely 

 different from the usual appearance of C vitulinus, I have 

 no hesitation in considering it as a remarkable variety only 

 of that species. 



C. vitulinus in general is a small shell. The best represent- 

 ation of it I have seen is given by Knorr ; an author not in 

 general very accurate in his figures. It varies considerably in 

 colour, and approaches very near to C vulpinus Lam. from 

 which it principally differs in having an elevated, though 

 short, spire, instead of one nearly flat: the base is granu- 

 lated, and generally white; C. vulpinus also has the body 

 whorl carinated and thickest round the upper margin, 

 whereas, in Vitulinus, it is gently swelled in the middle. 



M. Lamarck is, I think, mistaken in the synonyms of this 

 shell, which is represented in the Ency. Mtth. plate 326, fig. 

 204. The shell at fig. 8. appears to me as the granulated 

 variety of C vulpinus. 



Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. 



PI. 126. 



