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Contribution No. 78, Hawaii Marine Laboratory. This research was carried out during tenure of a fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
I am grateful to Dr. William A. Gosline, who aided with identification of the fishes. Dr. William J. Clench kindly permitted dissection of specimens of Conus striatus from Guam in the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Harvard University. I wish to thank Mr. Charles E. Cutress for much assistance with the photography. Miss Marian Adachi aided with preparation of the figures.