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with yellowish brown in the middle, with one or two interrupted 

 inferior and narrower bands below, apex pink-tinted. Epidermis 



thick. Length, 3'5 inches. 



Habitat unknown. 



Closely allied to C. fuluocinctus, but not so much attenuated 

 at the base, spire less elevated, epidermis thicker, more banded. 



C. MAGUS, Linn. PI. 15, figs. 3-10 ; PL 16, figs. 11-14. 



Spire moderate, striate, body-whorl long and rather cylin- 

 drical, closely striate below; white, clouded with bluish ash, 

 orange-brown, chestnut or chocolate, everywhere encircled by 

 narrow chocolate interrupted lines, often separated into some- 

 what distant dots, middle of body-whorl usually irregularly 

 fasciate with white ; spire tessellated with chestnut or chocolate. 



Length, 2-3 inches. 



Madagascar, Borneo, Australia, N. Caledonia, 



Philippines, etc. 



This beautiful and common species is very variable in pattern 

 and shade of coloring and embraces a large synonymy. 1 place 

 here C. raphanus, Hvvass (fig. 4), C. consul, Boivin (fig. 5), C. 

 Indicus, C. Circae, C. fenellus, and G. clandestinus, of Chemnitz, 

 G. striolatus, Kiener (fig. 6), G. Borneensis, Sowb., not Ad. and 

 Reeve (fig. 7), and G. assimilis, A. Ad. (fig. 8). 



Var. FRAUENFELDI, Crosse. PI. 15, fig. 9. 



Yellowish or cream-color, with a few irregular longitudinal 

 chestnut or chocolate markings ; spire sparsely maculated. 



Madagascar. 

 Var. ROLLANDI, Bernardi. PI. 16, fig. 11. 



Surface covered by equidistant stride, more prominent at the 

 base ; white with irregular longitudinal cloudings of chestnut. 



Var. METOALFET, Reeve. PI. 15, fig. 10. 



Shell encircled with granular stride, spotted with orange-brown ; 

 there are irregular cloudings of orange-brown, and a central 

 white band. 



Var. EPISTOMIUM, Reeve. PI. 16, figs. 12-14. 



Shell rather narrow, thin ; white, irregularly clouded with 

 orange-brown, forming an irregular central white band; shoulder 

 sharply carinated, spire maculated ; btise grooved or striate. 



