CONCHOLOGY 



tinct vafieties of both species are described under these denomina- 

 tions by Favanne, and others are again enumerated by Martini and 

 other writers. As a general distinction of these two analogous shells, 

 it may not be amiss to add, as the result of our own observation, that 

 in Conus aulicus the groundcolour is always brown, with the spots of a 

 white or whitish colour, more or less numerous, and so disposed in 

 catenated or chain -like reticulations as to leave at intervals large sub- 

 angular spaces or patches of the brown colour, void of any spots or 

 dots of white. In speaking of Conus textile, we should be inclined, 

 on the contrary, to term the ground colour white or whitish, that 

 colour prevailing most abundantly in its general aspect, and the reti- 

 culations being brown or tawny ; these reticulations consisting for the 

 most part of fine lines and waves very numerous and interwoven with 

 each other; and lastly it may be observed, that Conus aulicus is rather 

 more of a slender form than Conus textile. With due attention to 

 these particulars we rest persuaded the two species, under all their 

 various aspects, may be discriminated. 



Dead shells of the species aulicus are not unfrequently found 

 upon the shores of the seas which it inhabits. In the living state 

 they are said to reside constantly at the depth of about five or six 

 fathoms below the surface of the water. The animals of the cones 

 have the head furnished with two feelers, or tentacula, near the 

 points of which the eyes are situated, one on each feeler. 



