79 Mr. Gray's Audit ions to a 



15. C. lurida, add. 



Icon. Wood's Cat. t. 16,/. 1 1 . 

 Junior. C. leucogaster. Gmel., Syst. Nat. 3413. 

 Icon. Gualter, t. 13,/. F. 

 y. Monstrosa. 



Icon. Savigny, Mem. Coquill. Egypte, t. 6,f. 27, 1, 2, 3. 

 The animal has been described by i?mo; see Hist. Nat. de V Europe 

 Merid.'\\.2Z7. 



16. C. cinerea, add. 

 Junior. 



C. translucens, Gmel., Syst. Xat. 3404? 



Icon. Gualter, t. 16, f. G.? 



Var. subfossilis. 



Cypraea ebumea. Konig. 



Icon. Foss. Sect. p. t. fineditce.J Mus. Brit. 



16.* Cyprceaphysis. 



Testa ovata tumida, fulva, punctis fuscis nebulata; basi lateribusque 

 incrassatisalbidisimmaculatis; dentibus minutis, subobsoletis, columella 

 complanata, profunda, laevigata. 



C. physis. Brocchi, Foss. Subap. ii. 284. Bronn. Verz. Heidel. 

 Min. Kompt. 2. 



C. pyrula, Lamarck, Jinn. Mus. xvi. 105. Hist. vii. 405. 



Icon. Brocchi, I. c. t. 2.f.3. 



Inhabits, fossil, Placentin, Brocchi. Fiorenzola. Mus. Brit., nost. 



Shell ovate, tumid, rather solid, slightly attenuated in front, pale 

 fulvous, clouded with numerous small, unequal-sized, darker dots and 

 spots; spire convex, covered; base and edge white and spotless, thick- 

 ened and rounded, except at the sides of the front extremity, which are 

 slightly marginated; the mouth rather narrow, front of the outer lip 

 shelving inwards; teeth minute, close together ; those of the inner lip 

 very indistinct, only observable near the top, and at the inner part of 

 the columella, which is very deep and nearly flat, with a slight concavity 

 in front, where the grooves of the teeth are extended over it. 



Those specimens which have lost their colours are sometimes uniform 

 bay, and sometimes dirty white, according to the degree of exposure to 



