CONUS. 69 



C. ROSSITERI, Brazier. 



Shell turbinated, thin, shining, transversely finely striated 

 under the lens, longitudinally blotched with chestnut-brown, white 

 and light blue ; spire slightly convex, apex pointed ; whorls seven 

 to eight, upper edge of basal whorl splashed with white arrow- 

 shaped spots, alternating with dark square chestnut spots ; very 

 finely striated between the sutures, a dark interrupted chestnut 

 band across the centre of the shell, below the band faint whitish 

 spots ; base ridged, tipped with white, with a dark red band above 

 the white ; lip thin, slightly flexuous, edged with brown ; interior 

 of aperture white and brown. Length, -66 inch. 



Botany Bay, N. S. Wales. 



The above is the full description of this unfigured species ; it 

 is probably an immature shell. I have not seen it. 



C. ALGOENSIS, Sowb. PL 22, fig. 52. 



Shell thin, smooth, chestnut-brown, with one or two bands of 

 longitudinal white markings ; spire articulated with white and 

 brown. Length, 1 inch. 



Algoa Bay, So. Africa. 

 C. FUCATUS, Reeve. PL 22, fig. 53. 



Shell conically turbinated, smooth or obsoletely peculiarly 

 indented, ridged at the base ; spire conspicuously striately 

 grooved, intermediate ridges granulated, apex raised, sharp ; ash- 

 olive, spire marbled with white. Length, '8 inch. 



Philippines. 

 C. LACHRYMOSUS, Reeve. PL 22, fig. 54. 



Oblong-conical, slightly ventricose, rather thin, smooth, con- 

 tracted and ridged towards the base ; spire striately grooved, 

 sharp at the apex ; fulvous orange, encircled by interrupted lines 

 of darker color, white in the middle and on the upper edge, 

 painted longitudinally wfth promiscuously waved orange-brown 

 streaks, spire stained and variegated with the same color. 



Length, 1-25 inches. 



Habitat unknown. 



A doubtful species, described from the Cumingian collection. 



C. ANEMONE, Lamarck. PL 22, figs. 55-61. 



.Shell very variable in form, short and robust, with short spire, 

 or longer and more slender, with elevated spire ; spire and body- 



