74 CANCELLARIA. 



the uppermost sharp and prominent; fulvous brown, lighter 

 within the aperture. Length, 1'5 inches. 



China Sea. 



I have not seen this species, but the figure is too close to C. 

 bulbulus. 



C. LACTEA, Desh. PI. 3, fig. 51. 



White, smooth, thin, translucent, columella three-plaited ; 

 cream-colored. Length, 22 mill. 



Hob. unknown. 

 C. L^VIGATA, Sowb. PI. 3, fig. 52. 



Rather solid, whorls narrowly obtusely angled at the upper 

 part, obsoletely plicate on the spire and angle, otherwise smooth ; 

 whitish, obscurely tinged with flesh-brown, blotched with chest- 

 nut on the shoulder ; plaits three, prominent. 



Length, 1-1-25 inches. New South Wales. 



Possibly identical with the preceding species. 



Subsection MEHICA, H. and A. Adams. 



C. ASPERELLA, Lam. PI. 4, figs. 53, 50-52, 54 ; PI. 3, fig. 53. 



Thick, imperforate, everywhere granosely reticulated, very 

 narrowly angulated at the suture ; whitish, banded with orange- 

 brown or entirely brown or chocolate-colored ; columella three- 

 plaited. Length, 1'25-1'75 inches. 



China, Japan, Philippines. 



A variety of this species was first described by Sowerby as 

 C. elegans (fig. 53), a name preoccupied by Deshayes for a fossil 

 species of the Paris basin, and therefore changed by Crosse to 

 C. Reeveana ; however, C. Sinensis, Reeve (fig. 50), representing- 

 a not fully developed shell, has priority over the latter name. 

 Kobelt has described vars. subsinensis (fig. 51), with less im- 

 pressed suture, and laticosta (fig. 52), with more distant ribs 

 and umbilical region more strongly defined. Another variety, 

 connecting the form Sinensis with the' type is C. melanostoma, 

 Sowb. (fig. 54). 



C. BIFASCIATA, Desh. PI. 4, fig. 55. 



Whorls very narrowly shouldered, densely decussated ; orange- 

 brown, with two whitish bands. Length, 1 '25-1 '5 inches. 



Straits of Macassar. 



