CONUS. 55 
mistaking that gentleman’s name for Adanson, has supplied the 
locality of West Africa. 
C. miser, Boivin. Pl. 16, fig. 20. 
Shell with convex body-whorl and flattened, striate spire ; yel- 
lowish, without maculations, aperture white, dilated in front. 
Length, 27 mill. 
Cape Verd Is. 
C. Mercator, Linn. PI. 16, figs. 21-23. 
Shell yellowish or ash-gray, often faintly longitudinally lined 
with chestnut, with a broad band at the shoulder and a narrower 
one at the middle, of white closely reticulated with chestnut. 
Length, 1-1-25 inches. 
West Indies, West Africa. 
Var. pesipiosus, A. Ad. Pl. 16, fig. 23. 
Shell choeolate-brown, the bands of reticulations narrower, 
spire more elevated. 
W. Africa. 
C. cunroLus, Reeve. PI. 16, figs. 24, 25. 
Shell shortly turbinated, wide at the shoulder, somewhat 
inflated ; chestnut- or chocolate-brown, with small white macula- 
tions, forming an obscure band at the shoulder, and another 
below the middle, as well as somewhat scattered over the rest of 
the surface, including the convex spire. Length, 1°25 inches. 
West Africa. 
C. balteus, Mawe, is a synonym. 
C. Natauis, Sowb. PI. 16, figs. 26, 27. 
Shell oblong, thin, smooth, angulated at the shoulder, sulcate 
below; roseate, minutely angularly lineate with brown, and 
bifasciate with large maculations, spire maculate. 
Length, 1 inch. 
Natal. 
Weinkauff makes this a variety of C. mercator, but it appears 
to differ considerably in coloration. Sowerby’s smaller figure 
(fig. 27) is supposed to represent a young shell of this species. 
C. o11vaceus, Kiener. PI. 16, figs. 28-31. 
Shell somewhat top-shaped, with rounded shoulder, sulcate 
towards the base; obscurely marbled with yellowish olive and 
