PLATE CLXIX. 



A native of the Indian seas. This shell is very nearly allied to 

 several of the presumed varieties of Conus Rusticus of Linnseus and 

 Gmelin. Conus Cinereus of Lamarck and others. We cannot, 

 however, precisely identify it with either of the varieties already 

 noticed by authors, nor with those of some other analogous species 

 of the Conus genus, which in size, contour, and more especially in 

 the markings, approximate towards it, and therefore upon the whole 

 it appears that it may be rather considered as a shell that has escaped 

 at least the definitive observation of authors, than as one which has 

 already been described. The nodulous margin of the spiral line of 

 the summit, removes it from several species of the Conus tribe with 

 which it may in other characters be found to correspond. 



