Length              Width               Whorls                          

36                    15.5 mm.          11.5                 Holotype         

34                    16                    11                    Paratype

33.5                 15.5                 11                    "          

30.0                 17.0                 11                    "

22.5                 11.5                 11                    "

     Types. - Holotype, Museo Poey no. 17293, and paratypes, Mu­seum of Comparative Zoölogy no. 187476, from Playa de Morales 11 kilometers S. E. of Banes, Oriente, Cuba, collected by C. G: Aguayo, W. J. Clench and A. Quiñones in July 1945. Additional paratypes from Playa Larga, 2 kilometers N. W. of Cabo Lucrecia; Punta de Mulas (PI. 11, fig. 13) ; and Punta del Puerte, all near Banes, Oriente, Cuba.

     Remarks. - The various localities given above cover a distance of about 25 kilometers, though the species is not at all continuous along this coast. Other species occupy intervening territory.

     This is a relatively large species and is a member of the vulne­ratum complex. This complex is composed of shells that are relatively smooth and possess a coloration ranging from very pale yellowish to a rather dark brownish-red which is generally mottled or marbled with white.

     In relationship moralesi is fairly close to Cerion torrei Pilsbry and Vanatta from west of Puerto Vita, a locality about 40 kilo­meters west of Punta Lucrecia the westernmost locality at which C. moralesi was found.

     C. moralesi diffE'rs from C. torrei  by being much larger, possess­ing a more conic summit, being much smoother and by being somewhat lighter in structure.

     Mr. A. Quiñones collected a large series of C. moralesi at a dif­ferent area at Playa Morales that were much smaller than the typical series, the smallest measuring 19 mm. in length.

     This species was discovered a few years before, by Mr. Alberto Quiñones, from Banes, Oriente." (Clench & Aguayo, 1951:77-78)