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Yellow variously banded with green, bronze, or 



brown. 

 Orange to orange scarlet, becoming darker at the 



aperture. 

 Dark brown to almost black, sometimes blotched 



with yellow or white. 

 Black or very dark brown, almost imiform color. 



On the Lower Keys there is a form with yellow 

 ground and a brown revolving band, also a broken 

 band and flames of bluish. From Miami southward 

 there is a race of Liguus with such remarkably 

 varied patterns I am unable to describe it. The 

 ground color may be golden through a number of 

 shades to purplish brown. This is often banded 

 with very dark brown, or it may have a wide semi- 

 transparent belt which seems to be laid over the 

 other colors. In places this has a greenish tint, 

 in others it is more nearly blue. The whole shell 

 has irregular vertical or sub-vertical markings, 

 flames and zigzags of whitish yellow or some shade 

 of pale brown and there may be narrow, revolving 

 brown lines. A handful of these beauties is simply 

 stunning, the assemblage of color is almost un- 

 believable. Among these chief color patterns 



