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Cucullus corona-ducalis Roding, 1798, Mus. 
Boltenianum, p. 38, 
Cucullus regius Roding, 1798, Mus. Bolteni- 
anum, p, 38, (non regius Gmelin, 1791.) 
Conus vifidulus Lamarck, 1810, Ann. Mus. 
Hist, Nat. Paris, 15: 31. 
Conus imperialis Lamarck. Sowerby, 1839, 
Conch. Ulus., p. 4, pt. 157-158, figs. 128, 
129 . 
Conus fuscatus Lamarck. Sowerby, 1839, 
Conch. Ulus., p. 4, pt. 157-158, figs. 130, 
131 . 
Conus vifidulus Linne. Adams and Adams, 
1853, Gen. Rec. Moll, 1: 247. 
Conus queketti Smith, 1906, Ann. Natal Govt. 
Mus,, 1: 22, pL 7, fig. 1, 
Cucullus imperialis (Linne) . Kira, 1955, Col- 
oured Ulus. Shells Japan, p. 72. 
Rhombus imperialis (Linne). Kuroda, 1955, 
Venus: Jap. Jour. MaL, 18: 289- 
DESCRIPTION: Shell large and sturdy, body 
whorl elongate, striate basally; outer lip thin. 
Shoulder coronate; spire low, strongly coro- 
nate. Ground color of shell white, with nu- 
merous interrupted light and dark brown 
bands on the spire as well as on the body 
whorl. Two broad yellowish brown bands 
encircle the body whorl. The band nearer the 
shoulder is broader. Both bands contain sev- 
eral narrow revolving dark brown lines inter- 
rupted by white. Color of base pale blue, 
often as narrow interrupted revolving lines. 
Base of aperture stained with a dark purple 
marginal band. Periostracum thin, yellow, 
translucent, but often obscured by epizooic 
coralline algae in nature. In life, exposed soft 
parts red, speckled with black. 
LENGTH: 90 mm. 
TYPE locality: None. 
REMARKS: C. imperialis occurs on reef plat- 
forms and to a depth of at least 30 fathoms. 
Pleistocene fossils are known from Oahu 
(Ostergaard, 1928), 
Conus leopardus (Roding) 
Fig. 10 in Plate 1 
(.^) Conus litteratus Linne var. /3 Born, 1778, 
Ind. Rer. Nat. Mus, Caes. Vind., p. 128. 
Conus litteratus Linne var. ^ Born, 1780, Test. 
Mus. Caes. Vind., p. 149. 
Conus litteratus Linne var. D Hwass in Bru- 
guiere, 1792, Enc. Meth. Vers, 1: 638, pL 
324, fig. 4. 
Conus litteratus Linne var. G Hwass in Bru- 
guike, 1792, Enc. Meth, Vers, 1: 638, pL 
324, fig. 3. 
Conus litteratus Linne var. I Hwass in Bru- 
guiere, 1792, Enc. Meth. Vers, 1: 638, pi. 
323, fig. 5. 
Cucullus leopardus Roding, 1798, Mus. Bolte- 
nianum, p. 41. 
Conus literatus var. B. Dillwyn, 1817, 
Descr. Cat. Rec, Shells, 1: 357. 
Conus millepunctatus Lamarck, 1822, Hist. Nat. 
Anim. sans Vert., 7: 461. (non millepunctatus 
Roding, 1798.) 
Conus litteratus Linne var. millepunctatus La- 
marck. Anton, 1839, Verzeichniss, p= 105. 
Conus milk punctatus Lamarck. Dufo, 1840, 
Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 2, 14: 167. 
Conus millepunctatus Linne. Morch, 1852, 
CataL Conchyl, Yoldi, p. 66, 
Dendroconus millepunctatus (Lamarck). 
Adams and Adams, 1853, Gen. Rec. Moll., 
1: 250. 
ip) Leptoconus leopardus. Adams and Adams, 
1853, Gen. Rec. Moll, 1: 252. 
Conus millepunctatus Bruguiere. Sowerby, 
1857, Thes. Conchyl, 3: 23, pL 7, fig. 151. 
Conus milUpunctatus Lamarck. Theobald, 
I860, CataL Rec. Sh. Mus. ' Asiat. Soc. 
Bengal, p. 23. 
Conus literatus Linne var. millepunctatus La- 
marck. Tryon, 1884, Man. Conch., 6: 
10, pi. 2, fig. 19. 
Conus millepunctatus Hwass. Von Martens 
and Thiele, 1903, Beschr. Gastrop. Deutsche 
Tiefsee Exp., p. 136. 
Cucullus pardus Bolten. Iredale, 1929, Mem. 
QueensL Mus., 9: 282. (error, pardus 
Roding, \1 = litter atus\lvm€, 1758.) 
Conus litteratus Linne var, millepunctata La- 
marck. Dautzenberg and Bouge, 1933, 
Jour. Conchyl, 77: 78. 
