90 CONUS. 
chocolate, interrupted by triangular white spaces ; these last are 
irregularly disposed, but crowded at the shoulder, base and 
middle so as to form bands; spire similarly marked ; aperture 
white. Length, 2-5-3 5 inches. 
Mauritius, Red Sea, Ceylon, Japan, Philippines, 
Australasia, Viti Islands, etc. 
The synonymy includes C. vicarius, Lam. (fig. 95), C. scriptus, 
Sowb. (fig. 96), in which the reticulations cover most of the 
surface. 
Var. TELATUS, Reeve. PI. 29, figs. 97, 98. 
The triangular reticulations much finer than in the type. In 
a specimen before me the usual three bands are each divided 
into two, with narrow intervening spaces. Another slight modi- 
fication of pattern of coloring is C. tigrinus, Sowb. (fig. 98). 
Var. VERRICULUM, Reeve. PI. 29, fig. 99. 
Shell shorter and proportionally wider than the type; the 
triangular white markings are usually larger and cover more of 
the surface. Approaches the preceding species, C. retifer. 
Var. EUETRIOS, Sowb. PI. 30, fig. 100. 
Shell finely reticulated with chocolate lines over the white 
surface, as to cause it to appear a uniform chocolate-color at a 
distance, crossed by three broad bands of darker color. 
Approaches C. Elise, Kiener. 
Var. ARCHIEPISCOPUS, Hwass. PI. 30, figs. 1-3. 
Shell smaller than the type, with much smaller reticulations, 
more completely covering the surface. Connected with textile 
by intermediate stages. C. canonicus, Hwass. (fig. 2), does not 
appear to be essentially different, and C. rubescens, Bonnet, and 
C. Madagascariensis, Sowb. (fig, 3), may also be placed here. 
Var. CONDENSUS, Sowb. PI. 30, fig. 4. 
Shell narrower than the type, connecting with C. auratus. 
Var. LEGATUS, Lam. PI. 30, fig. 5. 
Shell small and rather narrow, with strong longitudinal choc- 
olate markings over the reticulations. This is essentially a 
young state of C. canonicus, above, into which it passes with 
growth. 
