108 STROMBUS. 



round the upper part, tubercles rounded, obtuse ; orange- 

 brown, aperture similar in color, becoming deeper within. 



Length, 8-10 inches. 



West Indies. 



A rare shell, closely related to, perhaps a variety of S. gigas. 



S. GALEATUS, Swainson. PI. 1, fig. 6. 



Yellowish white, under an olive-brown epidermis ; aperture 

 whitish, the lip and columella tinged with orange-brown. 



Length, 8-10 inches. 



Panama to Mazatlan, Aca.pulco. 



It is S. galea, Wood, and S. crenatus, Sowb. 



S. COSTATUS, Gmelin. PI. 1, figs. 7, 8. 



Indistinctly banded and marbled with chestnut and white 

 under a yellowish-brown epidermis ; aperture whitish, tinged 

 with light orange or pink. Length, 5-6 inches. 



West Indies. 



Better known under the subsequent!} 7 published name of S. 

 accipritrinus, Lam. S. inermis, Swains, (fig. 8), is merely a 

 state of the species with less-developed spines. S. latus, Ginel. 

 (=dilatatuSj Lam., not Swains.) is probably the same form. 



S. BUBONIUS, Lam. PL 2, fig. 11. 



Spire with coarse impressed spiral striae, shortly tuberculate 

 at the sutures ; body-whorl with a shoulder-row of short spines 

 or tubercles, with usually two somewhat obsolete inferior rows 

 of knobs, and coarse revolving riblets; orange-brown or pink- 

 brown, marbled with white, under a brown epidermis, aperture 

 white, tinged with light brown on the lips and columella. 



Length, 4 inches. 



Senegal and Cape Verd Island*. 



It is S. fasciatus, Gmelin, not Born, S. coronatus, Defrance. 

 It is a fossil of the Mediterranean region. 



S. INTEGER, Swainson. PI. 2, fig. 12. 



Shell ventricose, solid, white; spire elongated, conical ; last 

 whorl nodulose behind; lip thick, rounded, white. 



The above is the original description, and reference is made to 

 Lister, pi. 856. This represents an immature shell, rather diffi- 

 cult to identify, and which all the monographers have agreed to 



