
266 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
brook. King George Sound, Hopetown, Yallingup, eighty miles west of Eucla 80 
fathoms. Victoria. 
Remarks. Very variable in shape and colouring. The colour may be white, 
pink, yellow or brown. Some have three or four rows of large red spots, subdistant, 
as their only ornament on a ground colour of pink or purple. The spire may be 
flat or fairly elate. The sides of the body whorl may be straight, sloping, or 
somewhat convex below the shoulder angle, or with a vertical flat band below the 
angle of the spire, and then straight sloping and this form may have quite a turreted 
spire. 
PARVICONUS SMITH! (Angas). 
Stephanoconus Smitht Angas, 1877, p. 36, pl. 5, fig. 8. Cape Solander, Botany 
Bay. 
Loc. Eastern Australia. Lord Howe Island. 
Remarks. This species has a typical colouration of fillets of articulated spots. 
Genus Mamiconus Cotton and Godfrey, 1932. 
Mamiconus Cotton and Godfrey, 1932, p. 69. 
Genotype: Conus superstes Hedley, 1911. Cape Wiles, South Australia, 100 
fathoms. 
Remarks. Shell small, solid, regularly conical, angled at the shoulder ; spiral 
cords numerous, defined by narrow, shallow grooves, becoming more crowded and 
oblique on the base; growth striae delicate; protoconch mamillate, smooth, two- 
whorled, slightly oblique; adult whorls four; mouth linear. The fossil convexus 
Harris from the Tertiary of Victoria probably belongs here. 
MAMICONUS suPERSTES (Hedley). 
Conus superstes Hedley, 1911, p. 111, pl. 20, fig. 35, 36. Forty miles south of 
Cape Wiles, 10 fathoms. 
Loc. South Australia, Cape Jaffa 90 fathoms, Western Australia, ninety miles 
west of Eucla, 104 fathoms; eighty miles west of Eucla, 80 fathoms and 120 
fathoms. 
GROUP L. 
Genus Hermes Montfort. 
Hermes Montfort, 1810, p. 399. 
Genotype: Conus nussatella Linné, 1758. Island of Nussatella, Asia. 
Theliconus Swainson, 1840, p. 312. Same genotype. 
Remarks. Shell narrow, thick, spire short but accuminate; surface of body 
whorl finely, closely, lirate, lirae minutely granular. 
HERMES NUSSATELLA (Iinné), 
Conus nussatella Linné, 1758, p. 716. Island of Nussatella. 
Loc. East Cape, Papua. Queensland. Philippines. Fiji. 
Remarks. One juvenile from Papua, large specimens from Queensland. 
