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extremely obsoletely coronate. Spire low; 
apex nipplelike, especially in young speci- 
mens; whorls finely striate, separated by a 
deeply impressed suture. Color of body whorl 
pale yellow or yellowish brown, with large 
white blotches forming a band at the shoulder 
and another at the middle; body whorl also 
encircled by narrow brown lines, which are 
usually interrupted to form dots and dashes; 
base violet or pink; interior of aperture bluish 
or pinkish white. Spire white or pinkish white, 
sparsely maculated with brown. Periostracum 
rather thick, yellowish brown and opaque in 
young specimens, yellow and somewhat 
translucent in older individuals. 
length: 35 mm. 
TYPE locality: Amboina. 
REMARKS: All specimens of C. circumactis 
known from the Hawaiian Islands have been 
collected by dredging. The holotype of C 
hammatus Bartsch and Rehder, here consid- 
ered the juvenile of C. circumactis, was dredged 
off Kauai in about 200 fathoms. C. A. Allen 
collected thirteen specimens from depths of 
8-60 fathoms off the southern shore of Oahu. 
Of the other species of Conus in Hawaii, 
C. vitulinus is most closely related to C. cir- 
cumactis, The latter can be distinguished by 
its pale ground color, pink or violet base, and 
yellowish brown periostracum. C. circumactis 
can be distinguished from C. litoglyphus by the 
narrow interrupted transverse brown lines and 
the pink or violet base in the former. 
Conus distans Hwass in Bruguiere 
Fig. 1 in Plate 1 
Conus distans Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792, Enc. 
Meth. Vers, 1: 634, pi. 321, fig. 11. 
Conus distans Bruguiere. Lamarck, 1810, 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 38. 
Virroconus distans (Bruguiere). Cotton, 
1945, Rec. South Austral. Mus., 8: 254. 
Khizoconus distans ifimgmQsC) , Kira, 1955, 
Coloured Ulus. Shells Japan, p. 75. 
Virgiconus distans (Bruguiere). Kuroda, 
1955, Venus: Jap. Jour. MaL, 18: 291. 
Stephanoconus distans (Hwass). Kaicher, 
1956, Indo-Pacific Sea Shells, Sect. 5, pi. 2, 
fig. 16. 
DESCRIPTION : Shell large, elongate, slightly 
concave in profile. Body whorl smooth or en- 
circled with obsolete impressed lines; aperture 
narrow, the sides parallel. Shoulder coronate; 
spire short, coronated with obtuse rounded 
tubercles. Color of body whorl yellowish tan, 
obsoletely banded with white or pale bluish 
white at the center and near the shoulder. 
Tubercles of the spire white, depressed areas 
between them dark brown. A purplish brown 
stain usually present near the base. Interior of 
aperture light violet with a lighter central 
band, darker violet at the base. The violet of 
the interior is deeper in juvenile specimens, 
which are generally more colorful. Perios- 
tracum thick, olive green, with transverse 
rows of tufted ridges on body whorl. In life, 
foot brown; siphon light tan, mottled with 
brown; rostrum dark brown, tipped with yel- 
low; tentacles light brown; penis orange. 
length: 120 mm. 
TYPE locality: New Zealand. In error 
(see Wilkins, 1955: 106). 
REMARKS: C. distans occurs chiefly at the 
outer areas of reef platforms and in depths of 
one or more fathoms. 
Conus ebraeus Linne 
Fig. 20 in Plate 2 
Conus ebraeus Linne, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 
p. 715. 
Conus hehraeus Linne. Born, 1778, Ind. 
Rer. Nat. Mus. Caes. Vind., p. 142. 
Cucullus ebraeus (Gmelin). Roding, 1798, 
Mus. Boltenianum, p. 42. 
Conus quadratus Perry, 1811, Conchology, pi. 
24, fig. 5. (non quadratus Roding, 1798.) 
Conus hehraeus Hwass. Blainville, 1818, 
Diet. Sci. Nat., 10: 249- 
Conus hehraeus Lamarck. Dufo, 1840, Ann. 
Sci. Nat., Ser. 2, 14: 170. 
Conus hehreus. Montrouzier, 1856, Ann. 
Soc. Imp. Agr. Lyon, 8: 416. 
