PLATE CII. 



VoLUTA TiGRiNA '. ah alUs Leo scandens, Seha Mus. t, S. t. 4^. 



/. 5, 6, 7, 8, d.—Mus. Kirch. ISO.— Lister 

 Conch, t. 760. /. 6. 



CoNUS StriatUS : cZ var : alba ; maculis fulvis laceris araneas 

 figurantibus. (L'ecorche ARAiGNEE)Zamarc^'^ 

 7. 506. n, U% 



A native of Africa and the type of a species of the Conus 

 genus, which Linnaeus describes under the name of Conus Striatus, 

 from a specimen in the museum of the Queen of Sweden. This 

 shell, which is a Cone of a moderate size, is usually of a whitish 

 colour with a very faint tinge of violet, and has the marks almost 

 constantly of a dark fuscous colour, tinged at the edges with tes- 

 taceous. There are several varieties of this species, the difference 

 of which consists only in the intensity of the dark fuscous markings, 

 and in the lesser or greater space of the surface which they occupy. 

 Among the principal varieties we may enumerate the following — 

 * Pale, or violaceous, with a few irregular perpendicular wavy 

 pointed lines and ragged spots, and which have obtained it the name 

 of the Spider Cone, from their remote resemblance to that insect. 



Pale, or White, tinged with rosy, or blueish, the surface 

 marked with perpendicular stripes, more or less confluent. 



Pale rosy white, or blueish, with perpendicular stripes, more 

 or legs confluent, and forming two pretty distinct bands, one 

 towards the upper part of the shell, the other near the tip, and 

 leaving the intermediate space as ^ broad whitish or paler band, 

 surrounding the middle of the shells. In the two last mentioned 

 varieties the darker colour prevails more conspicuously than the 

 paler spaces. 



