Hawaiian Conus — KOHN 
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lines. Young individuals may lack the two 
white bands. Spire tesselated with alternate 
brown and white blotches, continuing to 
form band on body whorl at shoulder. Outer 
lip thin; aperture violet within. Periostracum 
rather thin but opaque, encircled by raised 
transverse ridges. 
length: The only two specimens known 
from the Hawaiian Islands (Fig. 2) measure 
31 X 21 mm. and 19.5 X 11.5 mm. 
TYPE locality: Asia. 
REMARKS: This species was not known to 
occur in the Hawaiian area until the collection 
of a living specimen (Fig. 2, right) by Mrs. 
A. M. Harrison at a depth of 15-20 feet off 
Nanakuli, Oahu, in April, 1958. A second, 
smaller specimen (Fig. 2, left) was collected 
by Mr. A. M. Harrison at a depth of 35 feet 
near Kaena Pt., Oahu, on 31 August 1958. 
Conus catus Hwass in Bruguiere 
Fig. 29 in Plate 2 
Conus catus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792, Enc. 
Meth. Vers, 1: 707, pi. 332, figs. 3, 4, 7. 
Conus leoninus Ndit. 8 Gmelin, 1791, Syst. Nat., 
ed. 13, p. 3387. 
Cucullus nuhilus Roding, 1798, Mus. Bolteni- 
anum, p. 46. 
Conus nuhilus (Bolten). Link, 1807, Besch- 
reib. Nat.-Samml. Univ. Rostock, Abt. 3, 
p. 105. 
Conus catus Bruguiere. Lamarck, 1810, Ann. 
Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 285. 
Conus discrepans Sowerby, 1833, Conch. Ulus., 
p. 2, pt. 29, fig. 28. 
Conus catus Lamarck. Dufo, 1840, Ann. 
Sci. Nat., Set. 2, 14: 173. 
Leptoconus catus (Hwass). Adams and 
Adams, 1853, Gen. Rec. Moll, 1: 253. 
(.^) Conus purus Pease, 1862, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., p. 279. 
Chelyconus catus ifimgmhsQ) . Cotton, 1945, 
Rec. South Austral. Mus., 8: 241. 
Chelyconus catus (Hwass). Kaicher, 1956, 
Indo-Pacific Sea Shells, Sect. 5, pi. 6, fig. 10. 
DESCRIPTION: Shell stout, solid, bulbous. 
Body whorl striate, the striae raised, rounded, 
usually obsolete near the shoulder, and gran- 
ular near the base. Aperture rather broad, the 
sides almost parallel. Shoulder rounded, 
smooth; spire obtuse, deeply striate. Apex 
sharp, rose-colored, but often eroded. Color 
of body whorl and spire brown with irregular 
white flecks or splotches. Aperture white with 
brown margin. Periostracum thin, yellow, 
translucent. In life, foot mottled brown on 
buff. "Pale cinereous, varied with delicate 
brown mottlings, which are most conspicu- 
ous on the muzzle" (Garrett, 1878). 
length: To 40 mm. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Several localities are given 
with the original description, the first two of 
which, "Saint-Domingue” and Martinique, 
are almost certainly in error. The species 
described as Conus catus is restricted to the 
Indo-West Pacific region although it resem- 
bles Conus ranunculus Hwass in Bruguiere, a 
western Atlantic species. 
REMARKS: Conus catus is less variable with 
respect to shell characteristics in Hawaii than 
in other parts of the Pacific and Indian 
oceans. It occurs intertidally on benches and 
rocky shores and subtidally as well. Pleisto- 
cene fossils are known from Oahu (Oster- 
gaard, 1928). 
Conus chaldaeus (Roding) 
Fig. 21 in Plate 2 
Conus princeps Linne. Born, 1778, Ind. Rer. 
Nat. Mus. Caes. Vind., p. 134. (error). 
Conus princeps var. d- Gmelin, 1791, Syst. 
Nat., ed. 13, p. 3378. 
Conus ebraeus Linne var. E. Hwass in 
Bruguiere, 1792, Enc. Meth. Vers, 1: 619, 
pi. 321, figs. 1, 7, 8. 
Cucullus chaldaeus Roding, 1798, Mus. Bolte- 
nianum, p. 42. 
Conus chaldaeus (Bolten). Link, 1807, 
Beschreib. Nat.-Samml. Univ. Rostock, 
Abt. 3, p. 106. 
