Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. * * * * * Pl. 127 [Illustration] CONUS Maldivus, _Spanish Admiral Cone._ * * * * * GENERIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 65. * * * * * SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _C. testa laevi, postice gracili ferruginea, maculis albis subtrigonis, cingulisque numerosis fuscis, albo punctatis, ornata; basi nigra; spirae brevis apice acuto, anfractibus laevibus, planis._ Shell smooth, posterior end slender, ferruginous, with angular white spots, and white bands dotted with brown; base black; spire short, tip acute, the whorls smooth and flat. C. Maldivus. _Brug._ (1789.) _p._ 644. _Lam. Ann._ _v._ 15. _p._ 264. C. Jaspideus. _Humphreys in Mus. Cal._ (1797) _p._ 12. _No._ 185. Conus Generalis. _Var._ B. _Dillwyn._ 539. 11. _Lam. Syst._ 7. _p._ 465. 50. Var. 1. Band in the middle narrow; _upper figure_. _Ency. Meth._ pl. 325. fig. 6. Var. 2. Band broader; _lower figure_. Var. 3. Band very broad, with dotted transverse lines; _middle figure_. _Seba._ _pl._ 54. _fig._ 11. 12. _Ency. Meth._ _pl._ 325. _fig._ 5. 7. * * * * * The general similarity existing between the Spanish Admiral, and two other cones, figured in this work, I have before alluded to; it has been placed by the Linnaean writers as a variety of _C. Generalis_, from which, however, it invariably differs, in being a much thicker shell, with a shorter spire, and the whorls without any concavity. The colour of the two species varies considerably in different individuals, but _C. Maldivus_ is always destitute of the dark brown longitudinal stripes at the top of the body whorl, peculiar to _C. Generalis_; the white bands are either broken into somewhat triangular spots, or are banded with minute dots; these triangular white spots are sometimes scattered in other parts of the shell, and the white band in the middle varies much in breadth; of all the varieties I have yet seen, the middle figure is that which makes the nearest approach to _C. Generalis_. The very applicable name given to this shell by Mr. Humphreys, in the _Museum Calonnianum_, I should have adopted, had not Bruguiere previously affixed to it that of _Maldivus_, as being a native of the Maldivian Islands. * * * * * Pl. 128 [Illustration] CONUS Maldivus, _var._ _Spanish Admiral Cone_,_Chesnut variety._ * * * * * GENERIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 65. * * * * * SPECIFIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 127. Conus Maldivus. Var. B. _testa castanea, fascia albescente media angusta ornata; anfractus basalis basi et margine albis._ _Var. B._ Chesnut, with a narrow whitish band in the middle; base and margin of the body whorl white. * * * * *