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grooved below ; yellowish brown, variously longitudinally covered 

 with zigzag chestnut or chocolate markings ; sometimes almost 

 or quite covered with chocolate. Length, 1'75 inches. 



New Caledonia. 

 Distinguished by its sharp shoulder and coloration. 



C. MACEI, Crosse. PL 19, fig. 80. 



Shell rather thin, smooth under a thin epidermis ; whitish, 

 with chestnut longitudinal flames ; base of body-whorl finely 

 sulcate ; aperture pale violaceous. Length, 38 mill. 



Vizagapatam (Madras), India. 



C. TIMORENSIS, Hwass. PI. 19, fig. 81. 



Shell smooth, striate towards the base; rosy white, with 

 orange-rose clouds and distant revolving series of spots. 



Length, 1'5 inches. 



Timor, Flores, etc. 

 C. JANUS, Hwass. PL 19, fig. 82. 



Spire concavely elevated, striate; body-whorl narrow, with 

 rounded shoulder, aikl t distantly sulcate below; whitish or 

 yellowish, indistinctly three-banded by yellowish brown or 

 chestnut longitudinal markings ; spire maculated. 



Length, 2-2*5 inches. 



Cochin China, Philippines. 



C. JICKELTT, Weinkauff. PL 19, fig. 83. 



Shell white, with chocolate, irregular, longitudinal markings, 

 and quadrangular spots in revolving series. Length. 2 inches. 



Red Sea. 



Very closely allied to the preceding species, of which it may 

 be only a variety. 



C. INSCRTPTUS, Reeve. PL 19, figs. 84, 85. 



Shell rather solid, smooth, grooved towards the base; ash- 

 white, with dark chestnut hieroglyphic characters, interrupted 

 by revolving series of spots in the middle and at the base. 



Length, 1*4 inches. 



Red Sea, Seychelles. 



C. Keatii, Sowb. (fig. 85), varies slightly in the disposition of 

 the color-markings. The species has a sharper shoulder than 

 C. Janus, but is too closely allied to that species. 



