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with yellowish brown in the middle, with one or two interrupted 
inferior and narrower bands below, apex pink-tinted. Epidermis 
thick. Length, 3°5 inches. 
Habitat unknown. 
Closely allied to C. fulvecinctus, but not so much attenuated 
at the base, spire less elevated, epidermis thicker, more ‘banded. 
C. maGus, Linn. Pl. 15, figs. 3-10; Pl. 16, figs. 11-14. 
Spire moderate, striate, body-whorl long and rather cylin- 
drical, closely striate below; white, clouded with bluish ash, 
orange-brown, chestnut or chocolate, everywhere encircled by 
narrow chocolate interrupted lines, often separated into some- 
what distant dots, middle of body-whorl usually irregularly 
fasciate with white; spire tessellated with chestnut or chocolate. 
Length, 2-3 inches. 
Madagascar, Borneo, Australia, N. Caledonia, 
Philippines, ete. 
This beautiful and common species is very variable in pattern 
and shade of coloring and embraces a large synonymy. I piace 
here C. raphanus, Hwass (fig. 4), C. consul, Boivin (fig. 5), C. 
Indicus, C. Circe, C. fenellus,and C.clandestinus, of Chemnitz, 
C. striolatus, Kiener (fig. 6), C. Borneensis, Sowb., not Ad. and 
Reeve (fig. 7), and C. asstmilis, A. Ad. (fig. 8°. 
Var. FRAUENFELDI, Crosse. PI. 15, fig. 9. 
Yellowish or cream-color, with a few irregular longitudinal 
chestnut or chocolate markings; spire sparsely maculated. 
Madagascar. 
Var. Rouuanpi, Bernardi. Pl. 16, fig. 11. 
Surface covered by equidistant striz, more prominent at the 
base ; white with irregular longitudinal cloudings of chestnut. 
- Var. MetuaLret, Reeve. Pl. 15, fig. 10. 
Shell encircled with granular striz, spotted with orange-brown ; 
there are irregular cloudings of orange-brown, and a central 
white band. ; 
Var. EPISTOMIUM, Reeve. PI. 16, figs. 12-14. 
Shell rather narrow, thin; white, irregularly clouded with 
orange- brown, forming an irregular central white band ; shoulder 
sharply carinated, spire maculated ; base grooved or striate. 
