570 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cj/prcsidce, 



Length ^^, breadth ^-^ of an inch. 



The shell varies from ovate globose to ovate oblong : when 

 young it is pale, rose-coloured, and quite sraqoth. 



Mr. Dillwyn observes that Graelin's C carnea appears to be no- 

 thing more than C. sulcata in its immature state. The C. carnea 

 may at once be distinguished from C. sulcata and from all the 

 other striated Cowries, by its broad mouth and thin texture, and by 

 the back being quite destitute of any groove, and never spotted. 



I have a specimen which exactly agrees with Lamarck's des- 

 cription and figure of C ovulatay which appears to be a worn 

 state of this shell ; it differs only in having the appearance of beiOg 

 more solid. It may be the worn or young C, aperta. 



Blainville, in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, has de» 

 scribed from Duclos a species under the name of C» rosea^ thus ; 

 ^' Tres petite coquille, bullee, presque globuleuse, et d'une tres 

 jolie couleur rose." It may be this shell, but tres petite can 

 scarcely be applied to it. The only other rose-coloured Cowry 

 that I know is C. quadrimaculata, 



107. Cj/prcea triticea, — Wheat Cowry. 



" Coquille a peine plus grosse que la precedente [Cypraea 

 rosea] et d'un brun vineux partout." 



''Cypraea triticea. Dw/re^we," Blainville^ T)ict.Sci.Nat.^Y\\\,^5* 



Inhabits the West Indies. 



I only know this shell by the above short notice, 



108. CyprcBa australis. — New Holland Cowry. 



Testa ovata, albida, tenui, maculis 5. v. 6. pallide carneis 

 picta ; extremitatibus roseis ; striis longitudinalibus tenuibus, 

 laevibus ; line^ dorsali lata, vix impress^; apertura lineari, postice 

 subproducta ; dentibus aequalibus. 



1. Incompleta. Testa dorso Ispvigata politi. 



Cypraea australis. Lamarck^ Hist, Anim, sans vert, vii. 404. 



2. Junior. Testa polita rosea. 



Inhabits New Holland, common, MacLeay, Sandwich Islands, 

 Capt, Lord Byron. Mus. Brit., nost. &c. 



Shell ovate, vvhite,^ thin, with rose-coloured ends, and the back 



