CONCHOLOGY. 



the celebrated Seba, but it could not be the same, because the 

 entire collection of Seba, which at the period of the French inva- 

 sion constituted part of the Jloyal Museum of the Stadtholder, was 

 parried into France and its contents distributed among the other 

 objects of natural history in the French Museum The description 

 which Favanne has left us of the Cedonulli De Seba is in the 

 following words, and will be found on a near comparison to accora 

 pretty accurately with our present shell : — " Le Cedo nulli de 

 Seba, a large bande citron fence, chargee de quatre cordelettes de 

 g;rains inegaux, blancs, bleus, rouges et oranges. Le reste de sa 

 robe est fascie et marbre d'orange-brun, de jaune, de rouge et bleu- 

 pale sur un fond blanc avec deux bandes grenues vers le has." 



Favanne, t. ii. p. 422. 



figure IV. 



CONUS AMMIRALIS var CEDO NULLI 

 FULVOUS NONPAREIL CONE. 



Spire high and tapering, fulvous reddish and orange, varied 

 and marbled with white ; two orange bands, each with four belts of 

 white dots, and a single series near the tip. 



The shell from which this drawing is taken fell also into the 

 possession of the same individual as the last, and much about same 



* Vide Annales du Museum ]Sational, An, xi. (1802) Primier Cahier. 



