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grooved below; yellowish brown, variously longitudinally covered 
with zigzag chestnut or chocolate markings ; sometimes almost 
or quite covered with chocolate. Length, 1°75 inches. 
New Caledonia. 
Distinguished by its sharp shoulder and coloration. 
C. Macer, Crosse. PI. 19, fig. 80. 
Shell rather thin, smooth under a thin epidermis; whitish, 
with chestnut longitudinal flames; base of body-whorl finely 
suleate; aperture pale violaceous. Length, 388 mill. 
Vizagapatam (Madras), India. 
C. Timorensis, Hwass. PI. 19, fig. 81. 
Shell smooth, striate towards the base; rosy white, with 
orange-rose clouds and distant revolving series of spots. 
Length, 1°5 inches. 
Timor, Flores, ete. 
C. Janus, Hwass. PI. 19, fig. 82. 
Spire concavely elevated, striate; body-whorl narrow, with 
rounded shoulder, and distantly suleate below; whitish or 
yellowish, indistinctly three-banded by yellowish brown or 
chestnut longitudinal markings; spire maculated. 
Length, 2—2°5 inches. 
Cochin China, Philippines. 
C. Jickett, Weinkauff. PI. 19, fig. 83. 
Sheli white, with chocolate, irregular, longitudinal markings, 
and quadrangular spots in revolving series. Length, 2 inches. 
fied Sea. 
Very closely allied to the preceding species. of which it may 
be only a variety. 
C. inscriptus, Reeve. Pl. 19, figs. 84, 85. 
Shell rather solid, smooth, grooved towards the base; ash- 
white, with dark chestnut hieroglyphic characters, interrupted 
by revolving series of spots in the middle and at the base. 
Length, 1-4 inches. : 
Red Sea, Seychelles. 
C. Kealii, Sowb. (fig. 85), varies slightly in the disposition of 
the color-markings. ‘The species has a sharper shoulder than 
C. Janus, but is too closely allied to that species. 
