86 CONUS. 
C. GUBERNATOR, Hwass. PI. 26, figs. 68, 69. 
Whorls of the spire carinate, channeled and striate, tessellated 
with chestnut; body-whorl pink-white, longitudinally clouded 
with chestnut or chocolate, often obscurely two-banded ; several 
distant sulci towards the base. Length, 2°5—4 inches. 
East Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Ceylon, 
Philippines, New Caledonia. 
C. terminus, Lam. (fig. 69), is described as having a less 
rounded shoulder, is narrower, etc.; but in the series before me 
the transition forms make a series of stages so complete that I 
cannot separate C. terminus even as a variety. . 
C. Borvini, Kiener. PI. 28, fig. 70. 
Spire depressed, channeled; bedy-whorl with equidistant 
revolving punctured grooves, obsolete in the middle; yellowish 
white, with two light brown bands, and a few hieroglyphic mark- 
ings. Length, 2°5 inches. 
East Africa (Weinkauff ). 
C. MELANCHOLICUS, Lam. PI. 28, fig. 71. 
Shell elongated, rather cylindrical, cancellated with exceedingly 
fine striz ; orange-red, with a band of white spots at the shoulder 
and another below the middle of the body-whorl; spire smooth 
and sharp, spirally striated, variegated with orange-red. 
Length, 2 inches. 
Habitat unknown. 
The type specimen remains unique. 
C. RHODODENDRON (Couthouy), Jay. Pl. 28, fig. 72. 
Spire depressed, channeled and striate; body-whorl grooved 
above and below, smooth in the middle; rosy white. with 
numerous small triangular chestnut spots and three bands of 
violaceous and chestnut clouds and reticulations. 
Length, 1°75—2°25 inches. 
Australia, New Guinea, Polynesia. 
Perhaps the most beautiful species of the genus. C.cingulatus, 
Sowb. (not Lamarck), is a synonym, and C. discrepans, Sowb.., 
a dead, colorless shell, not adult, but with the same form and 
grooving, is referred here by Dr. Weinkauff. 
C. rLoccatus, Sowb. PI. 28, figs. 73, 74. 
Shell oblong, subcylindrical, solid, granosely sulcate below ; 
