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Var. gloynei Sowb. (1889). PL 21, figs. 37, 38. 



More globose, elegantly fenestrated with cream-white ; periphery 

 very obtusely carinated. Apical whorls rose. 



Var. ecarinata v. Moll. (1890). 



Nearly 6 little-convex whorls, the last not angulated ; cuticle lat- 

 ticed with white, apex rose, right margin of the aperture not in the 

 least angulated, peristome less expanded and reflexed. 



Alt. 22i diam. 32 i mill. 



Magtan; Timobo. 



C. MORELETI Pfeiffer. PL 45, figs. 45, 46. 



Imperforate, conoid-globose, rather solid ; brown-black, cov- 

 ered with a shining buff- chestnut cuticle, variously striped and zig- 

 zagly streaked. Spire sub-semi-globose, apex roseate, rather acute. 

 Whorls 4i, little convex, separated by somewhat impressed sutures, 

 the last whorl large, peculiarly flattened at the periphery, toward 

 the base angulated, beneath somewhat flattened. Aperture very 

 oblique, roundly-quadrangular, milk-white inside ; peristome black, 

 narrowly reflexed; columella straighened, suboblique, flesh-colored, 

 whitish above, (v. Moll} 



Alt. 28, greater diam. 37 mill. ; apert. width 25 J, alt. 21 2 mill. 



Boljoon, Zebu. 



A. moreleti PFK., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1848, p. 118; Conchyl. Cab. 

 p. 330, t. 130, f. 9, 10; Monogr. iii, p. 177. Cochlostyla (Axina) 

 moreleti v. MOLL., Landschn. Cebu, p. 238. 



The only published figures represent a shell from which the epi- 

 dermis had been rubbed. Mollendorff has recently described fresh 

 examples and discovered the locality, heretofore unknown. 



C. MONTFORTIANA Pfeiffer. PL 41, figs. 14, 15, 16. 



Imperforate, turbinate, thick, ponderous, blackish-rufous, covered 

 with a hydrophanous ashen-brown cuticle ; spire conoid ; apex violet- 

 purple, denuded, shining, obtuse ; whorls 4, slightly convex, the 

 last angulated, angle evanescent on the latter part of the whorl; 

 columella sloping, callous, white, subdentate at base ; aperture sub- 

 tetragonal, shining white within ; peristome narrowly reflexed, bor- 

 dered with blackish-brown. (Pfr.) 



Alt. 22, greater diam. 31, lesser 27 mill. 



Philippine Is. 



