SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _Shell thin, smooth, banded, ventricose; spire pointed, the whorls very convex; umbilicus open, rather large._ Am. fasciata. _Lam. Sys. 6, 177._ Am. fasciata. _Zool. Illust. 1 Series. 2. pl. 103._ Am. fasciata, var. canaliculata. _Sw. in Bligh Cat._ Am. canaliculata. _Lam. Syst. 6, 178._ ---- In our former series we represented this species as it is usually seen; our present figures were drawn from a very uncommon variety, received by Mrs. Mawe from Brazil, in which not the slightest appearance of the external transverse bands are apparent. The specimen now forms a part of the valuable and extensive Museum of the Natural History Society of Manchester; a collection which we believe is superior to that of any provincial town in the kingdom. It is gratifying to us to inform the scientific student, that its contents will be thrown open to his enquiries with a promptitude and liberality, which he will in vain look for at some of the Zoological Institutions of the metropolis. Our friend Henry Parker, Esq. of Liverpool, who while prosecuting his botanical researches in Demerara, was not unmindful of conchology, favoured us with an interesting series of specimens from that river, clearly shewing that the A. _fasciata_ and _canaliculata_ of Lamarck are varieties of one species; or rather, that there are specimens of _fasciata_ which perfectly agree with his description of _canaliculata_. We further learn from Mr. Parker, that the inhabitant of this, and of other species, are a favourite food with the crafty Herons, who use their bill as a spear to take them from the bottom; in some places, the banks of the river are strewed with empty shells, all perforated by these birds. * * * * * * [Illustration: CONUS. Pl. 2. _Conus lithoglyphus._] CONUS lithoglyphus. _Ermine Cone._ ---- Zoophaga. Family Strombidæ. _Nob._ Operculum of the Animal smaller than the aperture of its shell; outer lip of the latter detached above. TYPICAL GENERA. 1, TEREBELLUM. 2, STROMBUS. 3, CONUS. 4, ----? 5, PLEUROTOMA. _Auct._ GENERIC CHARACTER. See Lam. Syst. 7, 440. ---- SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _Shell turbinated, redish orange, with two undulated white boards; base granulated, spire obtuse._ Conus lithoglyphus. _Mus. Gevers. p. 350. Brug. Ency. Meth. p. 692. Lam. Syst. 7, 490. C. Ermineus, Dillwyn, 395._ Icones. _Seba 3, pl. 42, f. 40, 41. Chem. pl. 140, f. 1298. Ency. Meth. pl. 338, f. 8.? Martini, 2, pl. 57, f. 630.--1.?_ ---- The Cone Shells belong to a predatious race of Molluscæ, who feed upon the innumerable "creeping things," which swarm in the prolific seas of the Oriental hemisphere: destitute both of jaws and lips, their mouth is formed into a long trunk or proboscis; with this they contrive to bore into solid shells, and suck the vital juices of their victims. Nearly all the species are natives of the Indian Ocean.