124 COLUMNA. 



3. C. HAINESI Pfeiffer. PL 46, figs. 10, 11. 



Shell sinistral, oblong- turrite, rather solid; smooth, rather- 

 glossy; corneous-fulvous, painted with dark chestnut bent 

 and angulated streaks. Spire long-conic, the apex obtuse. 

 The suture has a broad impressed border. Whorls 5%, the 

 upper ones flat, the last two rather swollen, subcarinate below 

 the middle, the last whorl about one- third the total length. 

 Columella obliquely truncate, with a thin callous above. 

 Aperture oblique, semioval, bluish inside; peristome simple, 

 unexpanded. 



Length 44, diam. 17 mm. ; aperture 16 mm. long, 8 wide 

 (Pfr.). 



West Africa: Cape Palmas (Haines coll.) ; Prince Island 

 (J. Wilson) ; Grand Bassam (C. de Paiva). 



Columna hainesi PFR., Malak. Bl., iii, 1856, p. 256; 

 Monogr., iv, 571; vi, 188; viii, 252. TRYON, Amer. Journ. 

 of Conch., ii, p. 297, pi. 20, f. 2. GIRARD, Jornal Sci. Math., 

 Phys. e Nat., Lisboa, iii, 1893, p. 110. 



The figures represent specimens in coll. A. N. S. P. The 

 protoconch in these shells is exactly like that of C. columna 

 in shape, of the same dark reddish-brown color, which gives 

 place to oblique stripes and then, at or near the end of the 

 fourth whorl, to the adult color-pattern of irregular, oblique 

 stripes on a yellow ground, the stripes slender or forked at 

 the upper fourth of the last whorl, hence narrow and numer- 

 ous on the subsutural region. The surface is smooth, except 

 for some faint ripples along growth lines, and a few spirals 

 run along the subsutural depression. There is no callous 

 flange upon the columella, which is less sinuous within than 

 in C. columna. No ' 'false-umbilicus" can be seen in a basal 

 view. The columella is very narrow, and varies a good deal 

 in curvature. 



Length 40, diam. 16, length of aperture 15 mm. 



Length 37, diam 14.5, length of aperture 15 mm. ; whorls 



These shells are labelled "Prince I." and "Cape Palmas. 

 The type was from the Haines collection, New York City. 



