80 CONUS. 



C. SCABRIUSCULUS, Chemn. PL 25, fig. 29. 



Shell striate throughout, sometimes minutely granular ; chest- 

 nut or chocolate-color, with large white maculations on spire and 

 below the shoulder, as well as around the middle of the body- 

 whorl ; base of body-whorl tinged with purple ; aperture tinged 

 with purple. Length, 1-1*5 inches. 



Caroline Is., Philippines* Australia, N. Caledonia. 



C.fabula, Sowb., is a synonym. 



C. TENDINEUS, Hwass. PI. 25, fig. 30. 



Shell striate, sometimes granular throughout; violaceous 

 chestnut, under an olive-brown thin epidermis, with large oblong 

 white spots, arranged in two series on the body-whorl, one series 

 below the shoulder, the other below the middle, base also white 

 or violaceous ; aperture tinged with violet. 



Length, 2-2*5 inches. /. Bourbon, Mauritius, Annaa. 



C. TEREBRA, Born. PL 25, figs. 31-33. 



Shell striated throughout ; pale yellowish or ash-color, indis- 

 tinctly two-banded, often somewhat tinged with violet at the 

 base ; aperture white or slightly violaceous. 

 Length, 1*75-4 inches. 



Red Sea, Nicobar Is., Ceylon, Isl. of Bourbon, 

 Philippines, N. Australia, New Caledonia, 



Fiji Islands. 



C. ccelebs, Hinds (fig. 32), is a young specimen, and C. Thomasi, 

 Sowb. (fig. 33), differs only in the spire being somewhat shorter 

 than usual. 



C. CAILLIAUDI, Kiener. PL 25, fig. 34. 



Shell narrow, smooth, with low spire and undulated or slightly 

 tuberculated shoulder; yellowish, encircled throughout by narrow 

 chestnut lines. Length, 2 inches. Habitat unknown. 



C. NUSSATELLA, Linn. PL 25, fig. 35. 



Shell closely striated, the striae minutely granular ; yellowish 

 white, clouded irregularly with orange-brown or light purple- 

 brown, with numerous chestnut spots on the stria-. 

 Length, l*5-2*25 inches. 



Red Sea, E. Africa, Ceylon, Java, Philippines, 



N. Australia. N. Caledonia, Polynesia. 





