168 CYPR^EA. 



C. GOODALLI, Gray. PI. 4, figs. 43, 44. 



Delicate snowy white, conspicuously stained with a large, 

 irregular orange-brown blotch. Length, -5 inch. 



Lord -Hood's /., Paumotus. 



C. FUSCOMACULATA, Pease. PL 20, fig. 47. 



Differs from the preceding in having the extremities painted 

 with a large conspicuous dark chestnut-brown spot on each side. 

 These are never absent even in specimens most weathered. 



Length, -37-'5 inch. 



/. Apaian. 

 C. ADELINE, Roberts. PL 4, figs. 46, 47. 



More depressed than C. Goodalli^nd the canary-colored base is 

 more flattened, back bluish. The marginal spots extend some- 

 what over the base. Length, -5 inch. 



HabJ 



This shell was described and figured by Sowerby in Thes. 

 Conch, as C. fuscomaculata, Gray MSS. Pease having preoccu- 

 pied the name, 1 have changed it as above. 



This species seems to be the connecting link between C. 

 Goodalli, and C. contaminata. 



C. CONTAMINATA, Gray. PL 4, figs. 48, 49. 



Pale purple, ornamented with a large chestnut blotch, base 

 orange, a few of the marginal spots extend over the base. 

 Length, -5-*6 inch. 



Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



C. FIMBRIATA, Gmel. PL 5, figs. 7&-7S. 



Pale slate-color, minutely freckled with olive-brown, and orna- 

 mented with a brown central band which sometimes appears 

 double, and at other times as an indistinct blotch ; extremities 

 conspicuously stained with violet, the marginal spots are not 

 numerous and extend somewhat over the base, which is whitish. 



Length, -5-1 inch. 



Indian Ocean, Australia, Paumotus, 



A species which is extremely variable in size, but always dis- 

 tinguishable by the violet painting of the extremities. The 

 young shell is dull pink and the central band is more marked. 



