. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . CONLTS PI I C O N U S fumig-atus. & Family Strombidae. Sub-family Character See Lamarck. Specific Character. Shell smooth, spire very short, channeled, or with the ivhorhconcave: colour chcsmit, belted icith tchitc, and articulatedrows of chesnut dots. Conus fumigatus Brug. Diet. 94. Lam. Si/st. 7. 3Iart. 2 jil. 618. Enci/. Met
. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . CONLTS PI I C O N U S fumig-atus. & Family Strombidae. Sub-family Character See Lamarck. Specific Character. Shell smooth, spire very short, channeled, or with the ivhorhconcave: colour chcsmit, belted icith tchitc, and articulatedrows of chesnut dots. Conus fumigatus Brug. Diet. 94. Lam. Si/st. 7. 3Iart. 2 jil. 618. Enci/. 7. A species not conspicuous for its beauty, but by nomeans of common occurrence : its close resemblance to thenext has induced us to illustrate both by figures. seldom exceeds the size here represented ; itmay at once be known iroxn franciscanus (which is a muchsmaller shell,) by the spiral whorls being concave^ insteadof convex : this species occurs in the Indian Ocean. If the student compares either Strombus Luhuanus,Mauritiamts, or Persicus, with any of the wide mouthedCones, he will immediately perceive the affinity betweenthe two groups. In both, the operculum of the animal issmall, but in Con
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