108 STROMBUS. 



round the upper part, tubercles rounded, obtuse ; orange- 

 brown, aperture similar in color, becoming deeper within. 



Length, 8-10 inches. 



West Indies. 



A rare shell, closely related to, perhaps a variety of S. gigas. 



S. GALEATUS, Swainson. PL 1, fig. 6. 



Yellowish white, under an olive-brown epidermis ; aperture 

 whitish, the lip and columella tinged with orange-brown. 



Length, 8-10 inches. 



Panama to Mazatlan, Acapulco. 



It is S. galea, Wood, and S. crenatus, Sowb. 



S. COSTATUS, Gmelin. PI. 1, figs. 7, 8. 



Indistinctly banded and marbled with chestnut and white 

 under a yellowish-brown epidermis ; aperture whitish, tinged 

 with light orange or pink. Length, 5-6 inches. 



West Indies. 



Better known under the subsequently published name of S. 

 accipritrinuSj Lam. S. inermis, Swains, (fig. 8), is merely a 

 state of the species with less-developed spines. S. latus, Ginel. 

 (dilatatus, Lam., not Swains.) is probably the same form. 



S. BUBONTUS, Lam. PI. 2, fig. 11. 



Spire with coarse impressed spiral striae, shortly tuberculate 

 at the sutures ; body-whorl with a shoulder-row of short spines 

 or tubercles, with usually two somewhat obsolete inferior rows 

 of knobs, and coarse revolving riblets ; orange-brown or pink- 

 brown, marbled with white, under a brown epidermis, aperture 

 white, tinged with light brown on the lips and columella. 



Length, 4 inches. 



Senegal and Cape Verd Island*. 



It is S. fasciatus, Gmelin, not Born, /S. coronatus, Defrance. 

 It is a fossil of the Mediterranean region. 



S. INTEGER, Swainson. PI. 2, fig. 12. 



Shell ventricose, solid, white; spire elongated, conical ; last 

 whorl nodulose behind ; lip thick, rounded, white. 



The above is the original description, and reference is made to 

 Lister, pi. 856. This represents an immature shell, rather diffi- 

 cult to identify, and which all the monographers have agreed to 



