92 CONUS. 
times crowded, but usually distant, forming series of open 
reticulations ; spire fasciculated with chestnut. 
Length, 1°5—2°35 inches. 
Isle of La Plata, W. Coast of Central America. 
C. ABBAS, Hwass. PI. 30, figs. 12-14. 
Shell white, very finely reticulated with narrow orange-brown 
lines, with a broad central and often narrower upper and lower 
bands of darker color bearing occasional longitudinal chocolate 
stripes. Length, 1:5—-2°5 inches. 
E. Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, New Caledonia. 
Very closely allied to C. textile, but the shell is smaller, the 
reticulations much smaller, the longitudinal streaks rarely 
apparent, and the dark bands of abbas occupy about the same 
positions as the lightest markings of tewtzle. 
Var. PANNICULUS, Lam. PI. 30, figs. 13, 14. 
Body-whorl with four bands of fine reticulations, and three 
bands bearing longitudinal chocolate stripes. C. corbula, Sowb. 
(fig. 14), is very similar in its markings. 
C. Evisa#, Kiener. PI. 30, fig. 15. . 
Shell white, so closely finely longitudinally lined and reticulated 
with chocolate, as to appear like a chocolate surface with innumer- 
able white specks, with two or three broad darker bands. 
Length, 2 inches. 
Madagascar. 
C. crocatus, Lam. PI. 31, figs. 16, 17. 
Shell saffron-yellow, with a few scattered small white triangu- 
lar spots; spire tessellated with chestnut. Length, 2°75 inches. 
Philippines, New Caledonia. 
C. RACEMOSUS, Sowb. PI. 31, fig. 18. 
Shell rather solid, smooth, with convex spire; brownish orange- 
color, with obscure revolving lines sparingly articulated with 
white, and clusters of white triangular spots, mostly disposed in 
three bands. Length, 2°15 inches. 
Sandwich Islands. 
Very doubtfully distinct from the following species. 
C. omarrA, Hwass. PI. 31, figs. 19-28. 
Shell varying from orange-brown to chocolate.color, covered 
