28 CONUS. 



C. LAMBERTI, Souverbie. PL 7, fig. 30. 



Shell smooth ; orange-brown, with large subtriangular white 

 patches, mostly arranged so as to indicate three broad bands. 



Length, 107 mill. 



New Caledonia. 

 C. NEBULOSUS, Solander. PL 7, figs. 31-34. 



Spire concavely elevated, tuberculate, closely striate ; nebu- 

 lously painted with orange-brown, chestnut or chocolate and 

 white, the latter forming usually an interrupted and irregular 

 central band, besides being miscellaneously disposed on other 

 parts of the surface ; encircled by close narrow brown lines, 

 which are sometimes slightly raised. Length, 1-5-2-25 inches. 

 Went Indies and the adjoining shores of N. and S. America. 



The variations of this beautiful species in the shades and pat- 

 tern of coloring are almost endless. It is the C. leucostictus, 

 Gmelin, of Crosse, and includes also the C. Barbadensis of 

 Reeve, riot Hwass, C. solidus, Chemn., and C. cedo-nulli, Hwass 

 (figs. 32-34). The latter has usually been considered a distinct 

 species, but its characters of narrower shoulder and spotted 

 lines have no distinctive value. 



C. TAYLORIANUS, E. A. Smith. PL 7, fig. 35. 



Spire coronate, body-whorl with punctate revolving grooves ; 

 very dark chocolate, with a few white patches. 



Length, 20 mill. 



Australia ? 

 C. BRUNNEUS, Gray. PL 7, figs. 36, 37. 



Spire short conical, tuberculate; chestnut-brown, lineated with 

 chocolate, with sometimes longitudinal white maculations form- 

 ing a broad central interrupted band, and a few additional 

 maculations on other portions of the surface ; base subgranularly 

 striate. Length, 1-75 inches. 



W. Coast of Cent. America, Galapagos Is. 



Rather closely related to varieties of C. nebylosu*. The uni- 

 formly brown-colored specimens = C. diadema, Sowb. (fig. 3G). 



C. GLADIATOR, Brod. PL 8. fig. 38. 



Spire rather depressed, tuberculate and striate; chocolate- 

 brown, variegated with white, disposed in longitudinal streaks, 

 with an irregular white band, and more or less distinct revolving 



