88 CONUS. 
with numerous revolving rows of minute chestnut and white 
articulations; interior violaceous. Length, 2—2°5 inches. 
East Africa, Red Sea, Ceylon, Philippines, 
New Caledonia, Polynesia. 
The synonymy includes C. floridus, Sowb. (fig. 81). 
C. vioLAcEus, Reeve. PI. 28, figs. 82, 83. 
Shell subcylindrical, violaceous, with chestnut blotches, form- 
ing three interrupted bands, and faint lines of minute chestnut 
and white articulations. Length, 11-25 inches. 
Philippines, Isl. Annaa, ete. 
With this I unite C. obscurus, Reeve (fig. 83), and C. geo- 
graphus, var.of Sowb. It differs from young shells of C. tulipa 
in its more cylindrical form and in having three bands. 
C. grogRapPuus, Linn. PI. 28, fig. 84; Pl. 29, fig. 85. 
Shell thin, cylindrically inflated, with thread-like revolving 
striz, usually nearly obsolete except at the base; spire striated 
and coronated ; pink or violaceous white, clouded and coarsely 
reticulated with chestnut or chocolate, usually forming two very 
irregular bands; aperture violaceous white. 
Length, 3—5 inches. 
E. Africa, Red Sea, Ceylon, Philippines, 
N. Caledonia, Polynesia. 
Var. MApPPA, Crosse. Pl. 29, fig. 85. 
Shell smaller, more cylindrical, rose-color, marked as in the 
typical form; base of body-whorl obsoletely grooved. The 
name was substituted by Crosse for C. intermedius, Reeve; the 
latter being preoccupied by Lamarck for a fossil species, 
Section XVII. Text. 
Cylinder, Montf. Textilia, Swains. 
C. aurEus, Hwass. PI. 29, fig. 86. 
Shell subcylindrical, with fine revolving striz ; orange-brown, 
very finely reticulated with chestnut, with larger subtriangular 
spots of white, aggregated into masses and bands at the shoulder, 
middle and base; there are usually a number of longitudinal 
streaks of chestnut running over the orange-brown reticulated 
spaces. Length, 1°5—-2 inches. 
Moluccas, Philippines, New Caledonia. 
