88 CONUS. 



with numerous revolving rows of minute chestnut and white 

 articulations; interior violaceous. Length^2-2'5 inches. 

 East Africa, Red Sea, Ceylon, Philippines, 



New Caledonia, Polynesia. 

 The synonymy includes C.floridus, Sowb. (fig. 81). 



C. VIOLACEUS, Reeve. PI. 28, figs. 82, 83. 



Shell subcylindrical, violaceous, with chestnut blotches, form- 

 ing three interrupted bands, and faint lines of minute chestnut 

 and white articulations. Length, 1-1*25 inches. 



Philippines, M. Annaa, etc. 



With this I unite C. obscurus, Reeve (fig. 83), and C. geo- 

 graphus, var. of Sowb. It differs from young shells of C. tulipa 

 in its more cylindrical form and in having three bands. 



C. GEOGRAPHUS, Linn. PI. 28, fig. 84 ; PI. 29, fig. 85. 



Shell thin, cylindrically inflated, with thread-like revolving 

 striae, usually nearly obsolete except at the base; spire striated 

 and coronated ; pink or violaceous white, clouded and coarsely 

 reticulated with chestnut or chocolate, usually forming two very 

 irregular bands ; aperture violaceous white. 



Length, 3-5 inches. 



E. Africa, Eed Sea, Ceylon, Philippines, 



N. Caledonia, Polynesia. 

 Var. MAPPA, Crosse. PI. 29, fig. 85. 



Shell smaller, more cylindrical, rose-color, marked^s in the 

 typical form; base of body-whorl obsolete^ grooved. The 

 name was substituted by Crosse for C. intermedius, Reeve ; the 

 latter being preoccupied by Lamarck for a fossil species. 



Section XVII. TEXTI. 

 Cylinder, Montf. Textilia, Swains. 

 C. AUREUS, Hwass. PL 29, fig. 86. 



Shell subcylindrical, with fine revolving striae; orange-brown, 

 very finely reticulated with chestnut, with larger subtriangular 

 spots of white, aggregated into masses and bands at the shoulder, 

 middle and base; there are usually a number of longitudinal 

 streaks of chestnut running over the orange-brown reticulated 

 spaces. Length, 1-5-2 inches. 



Moluccas, Philippines, New Caledonia. 





