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band is bordered above with a row of rich dark brown spots approach- 
ing closely to black, each spot being placed upon a nodule : the lower 
edge of this band is serrated as it were, and each of the teeth is 
marked with a spot immediately under the upper spots, but more 
dashed and somewhat less intense. The upper edge of the lower 
band is marked in a similar manner, but the spots are less defined. 
Above the shoulder of the body whorl is a band of similar colour, 
with its lower edge dashed with markings of the same colour as those 
which ornament the other bands, and at similar intervals. Two simi- 
larly coloured spots appear below the third and fourth nodule of the 
spire just above the suture of the body whorl, which suture almost 
hides one below the second of those nodules, counting from the edge 
of the lip. Upper part of the spiral whorls coloured after the same 
pattern, and brought out by the pale ground-colour of the lower 
part. Apex yellowish red. Length 34 inches, breadth 14. 
This description will convey a very faint notion of one of the most 
beautiful shells I ever saw. 
Var. e. Sharply nedulous. Duil red, blotched with flesh-colour ; 
a faint band, palest in the middle at intervals, girds the body whorl 
below the middle. ‘The tips of the nodules are of the same colour as 
the blotches. Length 4} inches, breadth 23. 
Var. f. Very sharply nodulous, the muricated nodules becoming 
high ridges extending almost half-way down the body whorl. Dull 
coral-red, with here and there a dash of whitish between the nodules. 
A very faint band may be traced below the middle of the body whorl, 
and on its darker upper and lower borders a few white spots appear 
at intervals as they approach the lip. Length 4ths, breadth 24th 
inches. 
Var. g. Bluntly but highly nodulous on the back, the nodules on 
the lower side rather sharper. Whitish, lineated longitudinally with 
close-set undulated livid lines blotched with clouds and dashes of 
livid red. A broad pale band girds the body whorl below the middles 
Apex reddish white. Length 53; breadth 3 inches. 
All these varieties, with the exception of var. a, are in the museum 
of Mr. Cuming. 
Conus Vicror. Con. testd subcylindraceo-conicd, flavd, maculis 
albis inspersd, fasciis 2 moniliformibus latis, nigro-brunneis vel 
brunneo-castaneis, latis concinne ornatd ; spire mediocris, pyra- 
midalis, anfractibus excavatis longitudinaliter striatis, subcancel- 
latis, apice subacuto. 
Long. 14; lat. poll. 
Mus. Cuming, Harford. 
Hab. ? 
This brilliant Cone strikes the eye at once. ‘The bright star-like 
spots with which the dark necklace-bands are interrupted and re- 
lieved, and the yellow ground-colour which takes the form of three 
alternating bands, render it attractive, and the more minutely it is 
examined the more it gains on the attention. The necklaces form- 
ing the moniliform bands, when looked at with a lens, present the 
