CONUS. 21 
Spot here and there. Not so large as the type, rarely exceeding 
an inch in length. 
C. MACULIFERUS, Sowb. PI. 5, fig. 78. 
Shell wide, with short spire, slightly corenate; yellowish white 
with two revolving series of irregular longitudinal chestnut 
markings, which are sometimes partially connected one with 
another in each series. Length, 30 mill. 
Red Sea. 
C. BALTEATUS, Sowb. PI. 5, figs. 79-81. 
Shell olive-brown or brown violaceous, with a more or less 
irregular white band below the middle, and another one below 
the tuberculated spire; interior of aperture tinged with violet. 
Length, 1 inch. 
Philippines, Nicobar Islands, Mauritius. 
C. pigmentatus, Adams and Reeve (fig. 80), and C. cernicus, 
H. Adams (fig. 81),are synonyms. In the latter,and sometimes 
also in the former, the painting is more or less obscurely macu- 
lated with white, but the specimens before me sufliciently indi- 
cate the identity of these species. 
C. encAustus, Kiener. PI. 5, figs. 82, 83. 
Spire depressed, grooved and coronated with tubercles, body- 
whorl with distant punctured grooves, more strongly and closely 
grooved towards the base; clouded with chocolate- and ash-color, 
and encircled with numerous chocolate and white spots in lines ; 
aperture purplish. Length, 1:25 mill. 
Marquesas Islands. 
C. pretextus, Reeve (fig. 83), is a synonym. 
C. mitraRgis, Hwass. PI. 5, figs. 84-90; Pl. 27, fig. 12. 
Shell with spire more or less raised, striate or sometimes nearly 
smooth, with or without tubercles; body-whorl striate, the striz 
usually granulous towards the base, and sometimes throughout ; 
yellowish or light chestnut or grayish, variously clouded with 
darker chestnut or olive, often irregularly light-banded at the 
middle, and below the spire, and encircled with chestnut spots 
on the striz; interior chocolate, with a central white band. 
Length, °75—-1°25 inches. 
Red Sea to Isle of Bourbon and Natal, 
and to Sandwich and Galapagos Islands. 
