140 SPECIFIC 



immaculate, with pale chesnut teeth ; in the second 

 the lips are rather convex, and on the columella 

 there is a large brown, tawny, or cinereous spot ; 

 teeth dark brown. The characteristic marking is 

 much more distinct in the former than the latter, 

 and less interrupted by reticulated lines. 

 Inhabits India. 



Fig. 2. C. Caput serpentis. 



Shell triangularly gibbous, rather obtuse at the 

 base. 



Lister Conch. Tab. 702. Fig. 50. 



Specimen brown, spotted with white on the 

 upper part, a pale fulvous spot at each extremity, 

 beneath white. 



Inhabits the Mauritius. 



Fig. 3. C. lurida. 



Shell rather turbinate, lurid, slightly banded; 

 extremities yellow, with two black spots. 



Lister Conch. Tab. 671. Fig. 17. 



Specimen beneath white; above obscurely 

 marked with two pale cinereous bands. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean and Atlantic. 



This species stands in the first section of the 



