CONUS MaldivLis, 

 Spaiifsh Admiral Cone, 



Generic Character. — See PI. 65. 



Specific Character. 



C testd Icevi, postice gracili ferriigined, maculis albis subtrigonis, 

 cingulisque numerosin fuscis, ulbo punctatis, ornatd ; bust nigrd ; 

 spine brtvis apice acuto, anfractibus hevibus, pla/iis. 



Shell smooth, posterior end slender, ferruginous, with angular white 

 spots, and white bands dotted with brown; base black; spire 

 short, tip acute, the whorls smooth and flat. 



C. Maldivus. Brug. (1789.) p. 644. Lam. Ann. v. 15. p. 264. 

 C. Jaspideus. Humphreys in Mus. Cal. (1797) j?. 12. No. 185. 

 Conus Generalis. Var. B. Dillwyn. 539. 11. 



Var. 1. Band in the middle narrow ; upper figure. Ency. Meth. 



pi. 325. fig. 6. 

 Var. 2. Band broader ; loxver figure. 



Var. 3. Band very broad, with dotted transverse lines; middle 

 figure. 

 Seba. pi. 54.. fig. 11.12. Ejicy. Meth. pi. 325. fig. 5. 7. 



1 HE general similarity existing between the Spanish Admi- 

 ral, and two other cones, figured in this work, I have before 

 alluded to ; it has been placed by the Linnsean writers as a 

 variety of C. Generalis, from which, however, it invariably 

 differs, in being a much thicker shell, with a shorter spire, 

 and the whorls without any concavity. The colour of the two 

 species varies considerably in different individuals, but C. 

 Maldivus is always destitute of the dark brov^/n longitudinal 

 stripes at the top of the body whorl, peculiar to C. Generalis; 

 the white bands are either broken into somewhat triangular 

 spots, or are banded with minute dots ; these triangular white 

 spots are sometimes scattered in other parts of the shell, and 

 the white band in the middle varies much in breadth ; of all 

 the varieties I have yet seen, the middle figure is that which 

 makes the nearest approach to C. Generalis. 



The very applicable name given to this shell by Mr. 

 Humphreys, in the Museum Calonnianum, I should have 

 adopted, had not Bruguiere previously affixed to it that of 

 Maldivus, as being a native oif" the Maldivian Islands. 



PI. 127. 



