CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE CII. 



CONUS STRIATUS 

 STRIATED CONE 



Univalve. 



generic character. 



Shell convolute, turbinate ; aperture effuse, longitudinal, linear^ 

 . without teeth, entire at the base : pillar smooth. 



* Elongated, and rounded at the base ; the cylinder twice the 

 length of the spire, and more. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shell ovate oblong, gibbous, clouded, and marked with very 

 fine parallel striae, which are sometimes fuscous. 



CoNUS Striatus : testa ovato-oblonga gibba nebuJosa ; striis 

 tenuissimis, parallelis fuscis. Linn, Mm* Lud. 

 Ulr^ 561. jo. 172.-—GmeL Linn. SysU 8393. 

 n. 58. 



Voluta TiGERiNA : llumpf. Mus. t 31. /, F, 

 Melar : Adanson Senegal. 1. i,%.f.^. 



