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Smith (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. XIII, 1904, p. 454) has recorded this 

 species from the Coromandel coast, in 41 fath. ; else the monographs give more remote localities, 

 (China, Feejee-islands). 



45. Coxitis (AspejHJ turriculahis Sowerby. 



SOWERBY. Thes. Conchyl. Vol. Ill, Conus, Suppl. I, p. 328, PI. 27, fig. 643, 644. 



KlENER. Coq. Viv. Vol. I, Conus, p. 155, PL 72, fig. i {acutangidiis)). 



WeinkaUFF. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. IV, Conus, p. 377, PI. 69. fig. 10, 11. 



Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. VI, p. 74, 75, PI. 23, fig. 89 {cancellatus jun.). 



Smith. Zool. Coll. "Alert", p. 487. 



Stat. 116. West of Kwandang-bay-entrance. 72 M. Fine sand with mud. i Spec. 



Stat. 204. Between islands of Wowoni and Buton. 75 — 94 M. Sand with dead shells. 2 Spec. 



Stat. 240. Banda. 9 — 45 M. Black sand, coral, i Spec. 



Stat. 301. Pepela-bay, East coast of Rotti-island. 22 M. Mud, coral and Lithothamnion. i Spec. 



I have followed the suggestions of Smith, 1. c. and Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, 

 Vol. XIV, 1894, p. 160, concerning the synonymy of this species. The Siboga-specimens are 

 coronated. 



46. Comis (Asperi) aculeiformis Reeve. 



Reeve. Conch. Ic. Vol. I, Conus, fig. 2\ob. 



Sowerby. Thes. Conchyl. Vol. Ill, Conus, p. 12, PI. 16, fig. 370. 



Weinkauff. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. IV, Conus, p. 258, PI. 43, fig. 2, 3. 



Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. VI, p. 75, PI. 23, fig. 90. 



Stat. 51. Madura-bay. 69 — 91. M. Fine grey sand, coarse sand with shells, i Spec. 



Stat. 116. West of Kwandang-bay-entrance. 72 M. Fine sand with mud. 2 Spec. 



Stat. 204. Between islands of Wowoni and Buton, 75 — 94 M. Sand with dead shells, i Spec. 



Stat. 313. East of Dangar Besar, Saleh-bay. Up to 36 M. Sand, coral and mud. i Spec. 



Tryon unites with this species a multitude of more or less allied, elongated Coni^ but 

 Smith, (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. XIII,- 1904, p. 454, 455), admits a large amount 

 of variability, without falling in that extreme. 



47. Conus (Asperi) delicattis n. sp. PI. XXV, fig. 3. 



Stat. 51. Madura-bay. 69 — 91 M. Fine grey sand, coarse sand with shells, i Spec. 



Shell elongately fusiform, with high spire, smooth, shining, yellowish-white, with yellow- 

 brown flames, formed by series of quadrangular blotches. Whorls 8, of which about 3Y2 (upper 

 one not intact) form a quite smooth, convexly-whorled nucleus, subsequent whorls angular, first 

 with 3, lower on with 2 spiral grooves, slightly coronated in upper post-nuclear whorls, the grooves 

 on lower whorls punctured, space between the deep suture and upper groove, with perpendicular 

 remote riblets, that between lower groove and suture, with very oblique striae; infra-angular 

 part of last worl in its upper part scarcely grooved, but with a few spiral rows of punctures, 



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