COlSrCHOLOGY. 



cliesnut, wiiicli, together, form a catenated band of peculiar elegance* 

 When very closely examined with the aid of a magnifier, the whole 

 surface of the shell appears finely reticulated with yellow. 



This shell was sold in one of the latter day's sale of the Leverian 

 Museum for the sum of five guineas and a half. 



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FIGURE 11. 



CONUS AMMIRALIS var AMBOINENSIS 0. 



SIX-BANDED AMBOYNA HIGH-SPIRED 



ADMIRAL SHELL. 



Spire high and tapering ; shell subpyriform ; smooth, pale yel- 

 lowish, sprinkled with fulvous ; body- wreath with six bands, the three 

 uppermost linear, and composed of alternate white and chesnut- 

 coloured dots, the three lower of two broad castaneous bands, marked 

 with subsaggitate oval spots, and an intermediate narrow belt of al- 

 ternate brown and white dots. 



This shell, like the former, (fig. I) constituted part of the Leverian 

 collection of exotic shells. Its length is an inch and half, its greatest 

 breadth exceeding five-eighths of an inch. 



Notwithstanding the inferiority of its size, this very elegant and 

 curious shell is not less interesting than the preceding. The general 



