. 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 . ve^ 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 Conus it seems reduced to a mere vestage ;while the shell, nearly rolled
. 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 . ve^ 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 Conus it seems reduced to a mere vestage ;while the shell, nearly rolled upon its own axis, indicatesthe near approach which Nature has now made towards theCowries ; a family, however, essentially distinguished bythe great developement of the mantle, and the totalabsence of an operculum. CONUS franciscanus. Shell smooth, chesnut, icith two ivhite bands, the upper one near the suture: spire short, the ivhorls franciscanus. Lam. Si/st. 7. 493. Ency. Meth. 221 .f. 5. Lamarck mentions Africa and the shores of the Mediter-ranean, as the native locality of this shell. It escaped ourresearches on the coasts of Italy, Sicily, and Greece, andwe suspect it to be an Oriental , PI. 2.
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