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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYPR^A 

 FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 



By Agnes F. Kenyon. 



Cypr.ea kaiseri, n.sp. 



Sliell more pyriform and elegantly shaped than in C. jyyyiformis, 

 more attenuated at the anterior extremity; it is also smaller, with 

 the back more i\aised; the dorsal surface cream-coloured, minutely 

 freckled with light brown specks; base white, more convex than 

 in C. pyrifoi-mis; the side spots smaller and of a darker brown; 

 spire umbilicated; there is an absence of the end blotches present 

 in both C. pyriformis and C. smithi, and it is altogether a more 

 exquisitely shaped shell; columellar teeth 15, red as in C. pyri- 

 formis, those on the lip numbering 17, sharp and white; the 

 anterior end is produced as in C. pidclidla. 



Long 21; greatest lateral breadth 13, smallest 4 mm. 



Hah. — Lagrange Bay, Western Australia (A. F. Kenyon). 



CYPRiEA WILHBLMINA, n.Sp. 



Shell with the dorsal surface of a light cream colour, spotted 

 with yellow, a few of the spots being ocellated; base ivory-white; 

 columella with 17 teeth, rather obtuse; outer lip with 18, also 

 possessing three smaller additional ones extending beyond the 18, 

 inside the channel at the posterior extremity ; anterior end 

 slightly produced. 



Long 18; later.al width 10 mm. 



Hah. — Western Australia (A. F. Kenyon). 



I have also a young specimen and three others from the same 

 locality of a more ovate form, similar in shape and dentition to 

 C. poraria, but as they have a cream-coloured, yellow-spotted 

 dorsal surface, and the base ivory-white without the faintest 

 tinge of purple, I should class them as slight varieties of C. 

 wilhehnina. 

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