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lines below, and three at the shoulder-angle ; marked with brown 
flames and white and brown dots in revolving series. 
Length, 1:25 inches. 
Moreton Bay, Australia. 
C. acuminatus, Hwass. PI. 8, fig. 54; Pl. 9, fig. 55. 
Spire channeled, concavely elevated ; yellowish or pink-white, 
with a network of chestnut or chocolate ; sometimes indistinctly 
banded, with lines of spots on the bands; aperture generally 
rose-tinted. — Length, 1°5-1-75 inches. 
Red Sea. 
Besides being smaller, the pattern of coloring on this shell 
differs from that of C. Amadis by being reticulated rather than 
triangularly spotted. C. insignis, Sowb., is a synonym. 
Var. CUNEATUS, Sowb. PI. 9, fig. 55. 
Shell not reticulated ; pink-white, with two pale yellow bands 
and a very few chestnut spots on the body-whorl and spire; 
aperture rosy. At first sight appears distinct. Jickeli has 
figured it as a variety, in his paper on the Cones of the Red Sea. 
C. Scuecu, Jickeli. Pl. 9, fig. 56. 
Shell narrow; yellowish, reticulated with chestnut or choco- 
late, with two broad, spotted dark bands. Length, 1—1°5 inches. 
fed Sea. 
Is perhaps only an extreme variety of C. acuminatus, Hwass. 
It is the C. Neptunus of Kiener (not Reeve), and is‘figured by 
Sowerby as a variety of C. Amadis. 
C. NopuLosus, Sowb. PI. 9, fig. 59. 
Shell with elevated, channeled spire; yellowish, delicately and 
openly reticulated with chestnut ; aperture roseate. 
Length, 2 inches. 
Australia (Taylor collection). 
The locality is very doubtful, as is also the claim of the shell 
to recognition as a species distinct from C. acuminatus. 
C. Luctiricus, Reeve. PI. 9, fig. 60. 
Spire rather elevated, channeled; body-whorl with straight 
sides, closely grooved towards the base; whitish, stained and 
longitudinally streaked with reddish brown, and encircled with 
