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lines of darker brown; interior white or tinged with chocolate ; 
epidermis fibrous. Length, 1:25-1-75 inches. 
West Coast of Cent. America. 
Too closely allied to C. brunneus. 
C. surrusus, Sowb. PI. 8, figs. 39, 40. 
Shell tuberculate on the spire, entire surface with revolving 
fine strive, becoming faint or obsolete above; rosy, more or less 
faintly three- or four-banded with light chestnut; epidermis thin, 
light olivaceous. Length, 2°25 inches. 
New Caledonia. 
Crosse’s var. Noumeensis (fig. 40) can be united with the 
typical suffusus, its distinctive character being slight. 
C. princers, Linn. PI. 8, figs. 41-43. 
Shell with low, distantly but distinctly tuberculated spire, and 
direct sides, slightly striate at the base; yellowish brown, orange 
or pink, sometimes without markings, but usually with irregular 
longitudinal chestnut or chocolate strigations most of which are 
continuous from spire to base, and varying from fine and close 
to heavier and more distant markings; interior yellow or pink; 
epidermis dark brown, fibrous, with distant revolving series of 
tufted spots. Length, 1°5-2°25 inches. 
West Coast of Central America. 
The broad-striped state is C. regius, Chemn. (fig. 42); that 
with the stripes obsolete, C. lineolatus, Val. (fig. 43). 
Section VII. AMMIRALES. 
Leptoconus, Mirch. Rhizoconus, Morch, pars. 
C. AMMIRALIS, Linn. PI. 8, figs. 44-46. 
Chestnut-color with darker revolving lines, and upper, basal 
and one or two approximate bands, finely reticulated with yellow 
on awhite zround ; this pattern is overlaid with large, irregularly 
disposed triangular white spots. Length, 2°5 inches. 
Madagascar, Ceylon, Mauritius, Hast Indies, 
Philippines, New Caledonia. 
C. archithalassus, Dillw. (fig. 45), is a variety with coronated 
spire; in another variety figured by Kiener (fig. 46), the revolving 
lines are elevated into granules. 
