48 CONUS. 
Section X. Dauct. 
Rhizoconus, ex parte, Mirch. 
C. paucus, Hwass. PI. 14, figs. 70-72. 
Shell lemon- or orange-brown, grooved towards the base, with 
a pale, sometimes interrupted central band, and _ encircled 
throughout by rows of small chestnut spots—often obsolete ; 
Spire sometimes maculated with pale chestnut. 
Length, 1-1-75 inches. 
West Indies. 
C. pastinaca, Kiener (not Lamarck’, and C. Reevet, Kiener 
(fig. 71), are synonyms. 
Var. ARCHETYPUS, Crosse. ‘Pl. 14, fig. 72. 
Spire obsoletely tuberculate, body-whorl irregularly banded 
in the middle and at the shoulder with yellowish pink, surface 
otherwise fulvous with rows of small revolving dots; aperture 
orange-red within. Length, 25 mill. 
Habitat unknown. 
Sowerby and Weinkauff have made this a variety of C. daucus, 
but I am not at all satisfied of this. 
C. naRcissus, Lam. PI. 14, fig. 73. 
Shell with rounded shoulder and somewhat convex sides and 
spire, grooved towards the base; yellowish or orange-brown, 
sparsely maculated with white, and with an irregular white band 
below the middle; spire white, maculated with yellowish brown. 
Length, 1°85 inches. 
West Indies. - 
A doubtful species, and scarcely a member of this group, 
having more the form of C. Mediterraneus. 
C. oculatus, Gmelin, isa somewhat similarly formed shell, 
yellowish, with white eyes scattered over the surface. It has 
not been identified, and is possibly an artificially ornamented 
shell. 
C. nitHocLypHus, Meuschen. PI. 14, figs. 74, 75. 
Spire plane-conical, rather low, body-whorl distantly striate, 
the strix tuberculate towards the base; dark chestnut, encircled 
