118 STROMBU8. ' . 



S. SIBBALDI, Sowb. PI. 6, figs. 63, 64. 



Whorls angulatcd, spirally grooved, angle- nodulous, concave 

 above it, body-whorl swollen, lips of aperture ridged; zigzagged 

 with orange-brown over a yellowish surface and lighter bands, 

 aperture while, the columellar lip partially stained deep chest- 

 nut. Length, 1-5 inches. 



Indian Ocean. 



S. deformis, Kiener (in part) and Duclos (fig. 64), to which 

 Tapparone-Canefri has given the name of S. Kieneri, is n 

 synonym. 



Section V. CANARIUM, Schum., 1817. 



S. URCKUS, Linn. PI. 6. figs. 65-67. 



Shell smooth, with tuberculated shoulder-angle, narrowly 

 spirally grooved at the base ; whitish or yellowish, banded and 

 speckled with chestnut, often tinged with chocolate at Mie base ; 

 interior of outer lip (and often the upper part of the callous 

 narrow inner lip) radiately ridged ; lip, aperture and columella 

 deep orange-brown, or chestnut, or more usually deep chocolate 

 or black. Length, l*75-2*5 inches. 



Indian Ocean, Philippines, Australia. 



This is S. ustulatum, Schum., S. incisus. Wood, S. anatellus, 

 Duclos (fig. 67). 



S. DENTATUS, Linn. PL 6, figs. 68-70 ; PL 7, figs. 67-72. 



Whorls strongly plicate, the plicae usually becoming obsolete 

 about the middle of the body-whorl, forming tubercles where 

 they cross the angle of the shoulder ; closely spirally striate, 

 but the striae usually obsolete about the middle of the body- 

 whorl ; columellar lip narrowly callous and with the interior of 

 the outer lip radiately ridged; whitish to yellowish brown, 

 generally speckled and banded with gray, light olive, orange or 

 chestnut ; columellar lip and interior orange-brown to purple- 

 chocolate. Length, 1'ft inches. 



Red Sea to Philippine*, 



New Caledonia Viti Inlands, Mauritius. 



The sculpture, like the coloring varies ; sometimes the body 

 whorl is smooth below the strong shoulder-tubercles, sometimes 

 these nr not MO strong, and continue below as flexuous plica- 



