136 CERITHIUM. 



C. MILLEPUNCTATUM, Hombr. et Jacq. PL 25, fig. 60. 



Varicose, with alternate spiral rows of faint nodules and interme- 

 diate striae ; whitish, with chestnut spots. Length, 22 mill. 



Ins. Hogoleu. 



I know nothing of this species, which it appears had become lost 

 to the scientific world. 



C. ASPERULTJM, Tryon. PL 25, fig. 62. 



Brown, slightly shouldered, longitudinally plicate, with spiral 

 lines of chestnut colored nodules and minute intermediate striae, 

 nodules sharp, outer lip thickened crenulated. Length, 14 mill. 



Sandwich Islands. 



Mr. Pease called this species C. asperum, a name preoccupied in 

 the Vertagus group. 



C. ELUDENS, Bayle. PL 25, fig. 63. 



Whorls angulated, ventricose, plaited at the angle, girt beneath 

 the suture with a tuberculated line, body whorl biangulate, both 

 angles tuberculated ; fulvous, chestnut spotted between the tubercles. 



Length, 15 mill. 



Tasmania. 



Described by Sowerby as C. dubium, preoccupied by the Sowerby 

 of the " Mineral Conchology." 



C. USTUM, Hombr. et Jacq. PL 25, fig. 61. 



Narrow, decussated by longitudinal and spiral sculpture, the 

 former more prominent, aperture striate within, ribbed without, 

 brownish. Length, 28 mill. 



Solomon's Archipelago. 



C. NIGROBALTEATTTM, E. A. Smith. PL 25, fig. 64. 



White, chocolate banded above the suture, and on the periphery 

 of the last whorl ; whorls 12, convex, strongly longitudinally ribbed 

 and spirally ridged and sulcated. Length, 15 mill. 



Prince of Wales' Channel. 



C. TORRESI, E. A. Smith. PL 23, fig. 14. 



Whitish, with spiral series of chocolate colored spots upon the 

 lirse between the longitudinal granose ribs; whorls 11, very 

 slightly convex ; aperture with external varix and interior grooves. 



Length, 14'5 mill. 



Prince of Wales' Channel, Torres Straits, Australia. 



Resembles C. muscarum, Say, of the Southern United States' Coast. 



