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Show 402 MR. E. A. SMITH ON SHELLS FROM ADEN. [June 16, and not nearly so concave. The upper normal whorls in the Chinese species are turreted and prettily coronated or tuberculated at the angle, and the revolving sculpture of the spire is rather stronger than in the present species, which does not exhibit any coronation above. The tuberculatum upon the transverse ridges of the lower two-thirds of the body-whorl is also a good distinguishing feature. Kiener's figure of C. recurvus (Coq. Viv. pi. 97. f. 4), if the outlines of the spire were the slightest less concave, would exactly represent the form of this species. 18. CONUS ARMATUS, Hwass. Hab. Red Sea, East Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, New Caledonia, Viti Islands, Samoa Islands. Amirantes (Brit. Mus.) ; Aden (Caramagna). 19. CONUS T^ENIATUS, Hwass. Hab. Red Sea, Ceylon, China, Singapore. 20. CONUS MINIMUS (auct.). Hab. Natal, Andaman Islands, China, Philippines, Port Essington, New Caledonia (Brit. Mus.) ; Aden (Caramagna). 21. CONUS CEYLANENSIS, Hwass. Hab. Red Sea, Ceylon, Mauritius, Andaman Islands, Island of Rodriguez. These are localities for the typical form of this species. 22. CONUS CUVIERI, Crosse. Hab. Red Sea (Brit. Mus.). Tryon1 could never have seen this species or he would not have placed it as a variety of C. cervus, with which it has no relationship. Weinkauff2, in comparing it with C. tulipa and C. geographus, has indicated its true affinity. The locality " Swan River," which has been quoted for this species, requires confirmation. 23. CONUS TEXTILE, Linn. Hab. Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippines, Polynesia. Aden (Caramagna). With this species I am inclined to unite the following as varieties:- C. vicarius, Lamarck, C. verriculum, Reeve, C. textilina, Kiener, C. tigrinus, Sowerby, 0. corbula, Sowerby, C. scriptus, Sowerby, C. panniculus, Lamarck, C. canonicus, Hwass, C. rubescens, C. legatus, Lamarck, C. musivum, Broderip, C. pauluccice, Sowerby, C. condensus, Sowerby, G. archiepiscopus, Hwass, C. abbas, Hwass. Great as is the difference in many respects between the extreme forms, still I find it impossible to discover any permanent distinctions, 1 Man. Conch, vi. p. 87. * Conch.-Cab., Monogr. Conus, p. 321. |