Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

488 COLLECTIONS FEOM THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN.of C. acutanqulus of Chemnitz. The shell descrihed and figured bythat author (Couch.-Cab. vol. xi. p. 59, pi. 182. figs. 1772-3) is verymuch more slender than the form referred to it by the two abovementionedwriters, and has simple non-coronated margins to thewhorls of the spire.The C. acutangulus of Kiener difi'ers from the typical form ofC. turrk'ulatus merely in being more brightly coloured.The G. acutangidus, Eeeve (Conch. Icon. pi. 37. fig. 200), appearsto be a third species, and although agreeing with Kiener s shellas regards form, diflPers in having a smooth non-tuberculated spire.4. Conus miliaris, Ilwass.Mozambique, between tide-marks.5. Coims literatus, Linn.Mozambique, between tide-marks.6. Conus millepunctatus, Lamarck.Glorioso Islands, between tide-marks.7. Conus flavidus, Lamarck:Darros Island, Amirantes, and Mozambique.8. Conus tessellatus, Bom.Providence Reef, Mascarenes, in 24 fms. ; and African Island,Amirantes, beach.9. Conus striatus, Linn.He des Roches, Amirantes, beach.C.forich'.s, Sowerby, Thesaurus, frontispiece, f. 558, is unquestionablymerely a slight variety of this well-known species, andbears no relationship whatever to C. tulipa, with which it iserroneously united by Weinkauff (Conch.-Cab. p. 180, and Jahrbiich.deutsch. mal, Gesellsch. 1874, p. 285).10. Conus martensi. (Plate XLIV. fig. A.)Shell small, turbinate, much narrowed towards the base or front,of an orange colour, rather paler upon the spire. Whorls about10, flat^topped and a little sloping, raised somewhat above oneanother, concentrically three-grooved, separated by a deepish suture.Last whorl subacutely angled above, then a trifle convex at thesides, and being much attenuated anteriorly has a somewhat pj'riformappearance ; it is sculptured with fine lines of growth andtransverse indistinct striae or shallow grooves, which around the