QUEENSLAND MOLLUSCAN NOTES, No. S. 79 
Family CONIML 
Many species of Cones have been recognised from Queensland. Hedley 
admitted forty-three species, a number so inadequate that Shirley immediately 
suggested the addition of twenty-one more, but as he included extralimital 
shells of illegitimate origin none of his additions can be incorporated without 
confirmation. I recorded eleven legitimate accessions and there are still more. 
As with Cowries, Cones have long been a source of delight to amateur shell- 
collectors, their form and beauty deservedly being admired. Nearly a thousand 
species have been named, and it is now very difficult to determine the identity 
of a species among so many, as subdivision has not been systematically carried 
out. An attempt is here made to fix the major groups as a preliminary to 
more accurate nomination. 
The type of the genus Conus has been commonlv regarded as marmoreus 
Linn., but the earliest type designation appears to have been made by Swainson 
when he named C. litteratns Linn, as the type (Treat. Malac. 1840, p. 148). 
Previously Montfort (Conch. Syst., vol. ii, 1810, p. 407) had named C. fulgurans 
= C , generalis Linnc as type, but that species does not occur in the tenth 
edition of Linne’s Systema Naturae and hence is inadmissible. In the same 
place Montfort carried out an excellent splitting up of the Linnean genus, 
introducing Cylinder, Rollus, Hermes, and Rhombus for easily recognisable 
groups. Swainson renamed the same groups and added some more, and then 
Morch (Cat. Conch. Yoldi., 1852) proposed a few more. Little attention has 
since been paid to this group, so that while the major groups, which may be 
subfamilies or even families, are named, the majority of the species have been 
systematically neglected. 
The group known as the Textile Cones was separated by Montfort 
under the name Cylinder ; there is, however, a prior Cylindra as noted in my 
previous paper in these Memoirs, so that recourse would be to Swainson ’s 
Textilia, but Swainson indicated ' bullata as the type, and this is not a normal 
textile species. As there seems to be more than one genus in this series 
I propose Darioconus, naming omaria Brug. as type and Regiconus with cturatus 
Bruguiere as type. In the same manner Hermes and Theliconus were proposed 
for the nussatella series, and glans Bruguiere has been there included, but it 
deserves generic rank and I introduce the name Leporiconus with glans as type 
and here associate coccineus Gmelin. 
When Swainson introduced his genus Dendroconus he nominated striatus 
as type, and as this distinct form requires a distinct designation there is this 
name available though hitherto it has been used for the betulinus series. For 
this latter I propose Cleobula, naming figulinus as type. 
This brings us to the Cone we are most concerned with here, viz., a form 
of the ammiralis type. Whitley and I secured a small specimen at Michaelmas 
Cay which was referable here, but did not exactly agree, so was left unnamed. 
Messrs. Ward & Boardman secured a magnificent specimen of the same species 
