40 CONUS. 



C. CONGO LOR, Sowb. PL 11, fig. 15. 



Spire striate ; entire surface uniform cinnamon-brown color, 

 encircled on the body-whorl by narrow brown lines. 



Length, 2 inches. 



. Indi a, China. 



Perhaps only a variety of the preceding species. 



C. MUTABILTS (Chemn.), Auct. PI. 12, figs. 19, 20. 



Shell somewhat swollen above, spire striate ; light yellowish 

 brown, variegated b % y darker strigations, and faint revolving- 

 lines or rows of spots, often indistinctly lighter-banded in the 

 middle. Length, T75-2-5 inches. 



Red Sea, E. Indies, China. 



C. hyaena, Reeve, not Hwass (fig. 20). is a synonym. 



C. MILES, Linn. PI. 11, fig. 16 ; PL 27, fig. 11. 



Spire obsoletely tuberculate or smooth ; rather depressed ; 

 body-whorl spirally ridged at the base ; yellowish white, with 

 close narrow thread-like longitudinal chestnut strigations, inter- 

 rupted by a chocolate revolving band above the middle, base 

 stained chocolate ; aperture banded, chocolate and white. 

 Length, 2-4 inches. 



E. Africa, Ceylon, Japan, Philippines, 



N. Caledonia, Central Polynesia. 



C. CAPITANEUS, Linn. PL 12, figs. 21-24 ; PL 11, figs. It, 18. 



Spire low, striate, flamed with chocolate and white ; body- 

 whorl yellowish, or orange-brown, encircled by rows of chestnut 

 dots, usually stained chocolate at the base, there is a central 

 white band, with chocolate hierogtyphic markings on either side, 

 and a shoulder-band, crossed by chocolate smaller longitudinal 

 markings ; aperture chocolate, with a white band. 



Length, 2-3 inches. 



Ceylon, Philippines, Australia, N. Caledonia, 



Polynesia, Mauritius. 



Var. MUSTELINUS, Hwass. PL 11, figs. 17,18 ; PL 12, figs. 23, 24 ; 



PL 21, figs. 5, 6. 



The border-markings of the bands reduced to spots, the other 

 revolving spots of the typical form absent. Clearly connected 

 with the type by intermediate states. 



