40 CONUS. 
C. concotor, Sowb. PI. 11, fig. 15. 
Spire striate; entire surface uniform cinnamon-brown color, 
encircled on the body-whorl by narrow brown lines. 
Length, 2 inches. 
India, China. 
Perhaps only a variety of the preceding species. 
C. MUTABILIS (Chemn.), Auct. Pl. 12, figs. 19, 20. 
Shell somewhat swollen above, spire striate; light yellowish 
brown, variegated by darker strigations, and faint revolving 
lines or rows of spots, often indistinctly lighter-banded in the 
middle. Length, 1-75-25 inches. 
Red Sea, E. Indies, China. 
C. hyzna, Reeve, not Hwass (fig. 20), is a synonym. 
GeutLes, Linn... Pl, 14, fie, 165-21) oi ches. 
Spire obsoletely tuberculate or smooth; rather depressed ; 
body-whorl spirally ridged at the base; yellowish white, with 
close narrow thread-like longitudinal chestnut strigations, inter- 
rupted by a chocolate revolving band above the middle, base 
stained chocolate ; aperture banded, chocolate and white. 
Length, 2—4 inches. 
E. Africa, Ceylon, Japan, Philippines, 
N. Caledonia, Central Polynesia. 
C. capitanevs, Linn. PI. 12, figs. 21-24; Pl. 11, figs. 17, 18. 
Spire low, striate, flamed with chocolate and white; body- 
whorl yellowish, or orange-brown, encircled by rows of chestnut 
dots, usually stained chocolate at the base, there is a central 
white band, with chocolate hieroglyphic markings on either side, 
and a shoulder-band, crossed by chocolate smaller longitudinal 
markings ; aperture chocolate, with a white band. . 
Length, 2-3 inches. 
Ceylon, Philippines, Australia, N. Caledonia, 
; Polynesia, Mauritius. 
Var. MUSTELINUS, Hwass. PI. 11, figs.17,18; Pl. 12, figs. 23, 24; 
Pls 2, esto 16. 
The border-markings of the bands reduced to spots, the other 
revolving spots of the typical form absent. Clearly connected 
with the type by intermediate states. 
