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Comis imdiilatus Solander in Cat. Portland 
Mus., 1786, p. 180, no. 3866. 
Conus archiepiscopus Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792, 
Enc. Meth. Vers, 1: 747, pL 345, fig. 5; 
pi. 346, figs. 1, 7. 
Cucullus auriger Roding, 1798, Mus. Bolteni- 
anum, p. 49. 
Cucullus gloria-maris Roding, 1798, Mus. 
Boltenianum, p. 49. (non Conus gloria-maris 
Chemnitz, 1777.) 
Cucullus textile (Gmelin). Roding, 1798, 
Mus. Boltenianum, p. 50. 
Conus panniculus Lamarck, 1810, Ann. Mus. 
Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 435. 
Cylinder textile (Linne). Montfort, 1810, 
Conchyliogie Systematique, 2: 391. 
(.^) Conus pyramidalis Lamarck, 1810, Ann. 
Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 438. 
Conus gloria-maris Perry, 1811, Conchology, 
pi. 25, no. 5. (non gloria-maris Chemnitz, 
nil.) 
Conus rete-aureum Perry, 1811, Conchology, 
pi. 25, no. 5. 
Comis textiles Lamarck. Dufo, 1840, Ann. 
Sci. Nat., Set. 2, 14: 177. 
Conus textilis. Gray, 1842, Fig. Moll. Anim., 
pi. 10, fig. 1. 
Conus victoriae Reeve, 1843, Conch. Icon., 1: 
pi. 37, figs. 202a, 202b. 
Conus verriculum Reeve, 1843, Conch. Icon., 
1: pi. 38, figs. 208a, 208b. 
Conus concatenatus Kiener, 1845, Spec. Gen. 
Icon. Coq. Viv., 2: pi. 110, fig. 1, p. 362. 
Conus telatus Reeve, 1848, Conch. Icon., 1: 
suppl. pi. 1, fig. 270. 
Conus scriptus Sowerby, 1858, Thes. Conchy!., 
3: 41, pi. 23, fig. 563. 
Conus tigrinus Sowerby, 1858, Thes. Conchyl., 
3: 41, pi. 23, fig. 569. 
iP) Conus condensus Sowerby, 1866, Thes. 
Conchyl., 3: 326, pi. 26, fig. 622. 
Conus paniculus Lamarck. Paetel, 1873, 
Catal. Conch. -Samml. Paetel, p. 51. 
Cylindrus textile (Linne). Morelet, 1889, 
Jour. Conchyl., 37: 133. 
Darioconus textile (Linne). Cotton, 1945, 
Rec. South Austral. Mus., 8: 257. 
Darioconus textilis (Linne). Kuroda, 1955, 
Venus: Jap. Jour. Mai., 18: 291. 
DESCRIPTION: Shell large, ventricose, rather 
thin, subcylindrical-ovate. Maximum diame- 
ter of about one half shell length is reached 
about one fifth of the distance from shoulder 
to base. Body whorl transversely striate, the 
striae fine and closely spaced; aperture broad, 
flaring basally. Shoulder smooth; spire ele- 
vated, concave, acuminate, striate. Ground 
color white, with undulating longitudinal 
brown lines, interrupted by white triangles 
arranged as scales, and broad orange brown 
maculations disposed to form two or three 
interrupted transverse bands on the body 
whorl; the maculations streaked longitudi- 
nally with waved darker brown lines. Spire 
similarly miarked. Interior of aperture white. 
Periostracum thin, yellow, translucent. In life, 
foot mottled brown on white. Tip of siphon 
reddish orange, followed proximally by bands 
of white and black; remainder of siphon 
white with closely spaced narrow brown 
bands. 
length: To 100 mm. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Banda Islands. 
remarks: C. textile is rare in Hawaiian wa- 
ters. It is found occasionally on reef platforms 
and to depths of at least 12 fathoms. 
Conus vexillum Gmelin 
Fig. 11 in Plate 1 
Conus vexillum Gmelin, 1791, Syst. Nat., ed. 
13, p. 3397. 
(?) Conus sumatrensis Hwass in Bruguike, 
1792, Enc. Meth. Vers, 1: 655, pi. 327, 
fig. 8. 
Cucullus canonicus Coding, 1798, Mus. Bolteni- 
anum, p. 43. (non Conus canonicus Hwass in 
Bruguiere, 1792.) 
Conus vexillum Linne. De Fremery, 1802, 
Mus. Meyer., p. 82. (Not seen.) 
Conus vexillum Bruguiere. Lamarck, 1810, 
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 15: 268. 
(?) Conus leopardus Dillwyn, 1817, Descr. Cat. 
Rec. Shells, 1: 364. (non leopardus Roding, 
1798.) 
