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and basal bands; spire striated and maculated; base of shell 
striated, the striae sometimes granular. Length, 1-75—2°25 inches. 
Red Sea, East eee Ceylon, Philippines, 
Australia, New Caledonia. 
C. virutinus, Hwass. PI. 14, figs. 86,87; Pl. 15, fig. 88. 
Orange-brown to chocolate, with white longitudinal macula- 
tions disposed in bands at the shoulder and below the middle; 
lower part of body-whorl with granular striz; spire striate and 
maculate. Length, 15-2 inches. 
Ceylon to Philippines and Polynesia. 
Is probably only a variety of the preceding species, from which 
it is distinguished by the more longitudinal form of the white 
blotches, and the absence of the close revolving color-lines. 
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Var. CARPENTER, Crosse. PI. 15, fig. 88. i 
Chestnut-brown, with continuous yellowish bands at the 
shoulder and middle; spire maculated with chestnut and white. 
Length, 46 mill. 
New Guinea. 
C. augur, Hwass. PI. 15, fig. 89. 
Shell creamy white, encircled by close rows of very small 
chestnut dots, with two bands of irregular brown markings, one 
above, the other below the middle of the body-whorl; spire 
maculated with brown. Length, 1°75—2-25 inches. 
Ceylon. 
C. tignarius, Reeve. Pl. 15, figs. 90-93. 
Pale brown, with fine close lines of chestnut-brown, and one 
or two paler bands; shoulder somewhat obtuse; spire concavely 
elevated, with acute apex, uniform pale brown. Length, 2 inches. 
Philippines. 
Var. rurvus, Reeve. Pl. 15,-figs. 91, 92. 
Revolving lines broken up into minute dots, form somewhat 
narrower, some of the spire-whorls finely beaded. Scarcely a 
variety. C. Cecilei, Kiener (fig. 92), is identical. 
Var. FASCIATUS, Kiener. Pl. 15, fig. 93. 
Lines of dots more distant, whitish, with irregular light brown 
bands above and below the middle, base brown-tinted. 
Length, 2 inches. 
