28 CONUS. 
C. Lamperti, Souverbie. PI. 7, fig. 30. 
Shell smooth ; orange-brown, with large subtriangular white 
patches, mostly arranged so as to indicate three broad bands. 
Length, 107 mill. 
New Caledonia. 
C. NEBULOsUS, Solander. PI. 7, figs. 31-34. 
Spire concavely elevated, tuberculate, closely striate; nebu- 
lously painted with orange-brown, chestnut or chocolate and 
white, the latter forming usually an interrupted and irregular 
central band, besides being miscellaneously disposed on other 
parts of the surface; encircled by close narrow brown lines, 
which are sometimes slightly raised. Length, 1°5—2°25 inches. 
West Indies and the adjoining shores of N.and S. America. 
The variations of this beautiful species in the shades and pat- 
tern of coloring are almost endless. It is the C. leucostictus, 
Gmelin, of Crosse, and includes also the C. Barbadensis of 
Reeve, not Hwass, C. solidus, Chemn., and C. cedo-nulli, Hwass 
(figs. 832-34). The latter has usually been considered a distinct 
species, but its characters of narrower shoulder and spotted 
lines have no distinctive value. 
C. Taytorranus, E. A. Smith. Pl. 7, fig. 35. 
Spire coronate, body-whorl with punctate revolving grooves; 
very dark chocolate, with a few white patches. 
Length, 20 mill. 
Australia ? 
C. BRUNNEUS, Gray. PI. 7, figs. 36, 37. 
Spire short conical, tuberculate; chestnut-brown, lineated with 
chocolate, with sometimes longitudinal white maculations form- 
ing a broad central interrupted band, and a few additional 
maculations on other portions of the surface; base subgranularly 
striate. Length, 1°75 inches. 
W. Coast of Cent. America, Galapagos Is. 
Rather closely related to varieties of C. nebulosus. The uni- 
formly brown-colored specimens — C’. diadema, Sowb. (fig. 36). 
C. GLADIATOR, Brod. PI. 8. fig. 38. 
Spire rather depressed, tuberculate and striate; chocolate- 
brown, variegated with white, disposed in longitudinal streaks, 
with an irregular white band,and more or less distinct revolving 
