1882.] MR. SOWERBY, JUN., ON NEW SPECIES OF SHELLS. 117 
3. Descriptions of new Species of Shells in the Collection 
of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. By G. B. Sowrrsy, Junr. 
[Received December 30, 1881.] 
(Plate V.) 
Conus pryTanis. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 
Shell somewhat pyriform, lightish brown, here and there longi- 
tudinally streaked with darker brown, encircled with a well-defined 
narrow pale band below the middle ; spire short; whorls 9, smooth, 
the upper ones sloping, the rest squarely turreted, with bold whitish 
tubercles at the angles, banded with dark brown between the tuber- 
cles ; last whorl slightly rounded at the upper angle between the 
tubercles, faintly ribbed towards the base. Aperture of moderate 
width, nearly equal at both ends, light purple within. Lip thin, 
with scarcely any sinus at the upper extremity. Length 35, width 
at the angle 20 millim. 
Hab. Galapagos Islands. 
In looking over Mr. Melvill’s fine collection of Cones in October 
last, he called my attention to this shell, which he had obtained in 
1873 at the sale of the late Thos. Norris’s collection, and to which he 
had given in manuscript the above name, not having been able to 
identify it with any known species. I have since compared it with 
C. lividus (Brug.), which it resembles in colour, but from which it 
differs materially in form, being much shorter, with convex sides, 
slightly contracted at the base. It differs also from that species 
in the character of the crown, the tubercles being more clearly de- 
fined and elevated than in any specimen of C, lividus with which I 
have met. Its next ally is O. brunneus (Mawe), the whorls of the 
spire of which species are distinctly grooved, whereas in this they are 
smooth. It differs also from that species somewhat in form, and in 
the whitish band with which it is encircled. The shell it is most 
like in form and coronation is C. ¢iaratus (Brod.), which is a species 
far removed from it in colour and markings. 
Upon searching the British-Museum collection, Mr. Edgar A. 
Smith drew my attention to three specimens similar in every respect 
to Mr. Melvill’s shell, and undoubtedly of the same species, marked 
‘‘ Galapagos, sandy mud (H. Cuming).” They had been mistaken 
for a variety of C. brunneus. 
Conus EVELYN, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 
Shell elongately pyriform, pale yellow, striped with light brown, 
- encircled with an interrupted whitish band ; spire rather short ; whorls 
flattened, with four spiral grooves, coronated with elongated flattened 
tubercles at the angle; apex prominent; last whorl very faintly 
striated, rather convex below the angle, and slightly attenuated 
towards the base. Aperture rather narrow, a little widened towards 
the base, interior white. Length 28, width at the angle 14 millim, 
