CONUS. 85 



C. CONCINNULUS, Crosse. PL 26, fig. 63. 

 . White, with chestnut waved longitudinal markings. 



Length, *75 inch. Gulf of California. 



The specific name is substituted for C. concinnus, Brod., pre- 

 occupied by Sowerby, sen. I am not acquainted with the species. 



C. ATRAMENTOSUS, Reeve. PI. 26, fig. 64. 



Shell encircled by finely pricked grooves ; chestnut-color with 

 generally a few white spots on the shoulder, and white-tinted at 

 the base. Length, 12 mill. 



Philippines, New Caledonia, Sandwich Is. 



C. fusiformis = C. parvus, Pease, an unfigured species from 

 the Sandwich Islands, is identical ; I have authentic specimens 

 before me. 



C. HIEROGLYPHICUS, Duclos. PI. 26, fig. 65. 



Shell cylindrically ovate, ashy violet-color, ornamented with 

 two bands of peculiarly sinuated white spots ; with revolving 

 series of pale granules ; spire convexly acute, variegated ; base 

 striated. Length, '85 inch. 



? West Indies. 

 C. LUGUBKIS, Reeve. PI. 26, fig. 66. 



Shell finely striated, rudely ridged at the base, ridges few and 

 distant, spire conspicuously grooved ; chocolate-black, obscurely 

 reticulated here and there with numerous aggregated small white 

 spots. Length, -75 inch. West Africa. 



C. hieroglyphicus, var. Kiener, is identical. 



Section XVI. TULIPS. 

 Nubecula, Klein (in part). 

 C. STRIATUS, Linn. PI. 26, fig. 67. 



Shell irregularly clouded with pink-white and chestnut or 

 chocolate, with fine close revolving striae, forming the darker 

 ground-color by close colored lines ; spire tessellated with chest- 

 nut or chocolate and white, its whorls slightly channeled, cari- 

 nate and striate. Length, 2-5-3'5 inches. 



Red Sea, East Africa, Ceylon, Philippines, 



Australia, New Caledonia^ Viti Islands. 

 C. terminus, Kiener (not Lamarck), is identical. 



