322 HABITAT OF CYPEJEA CITETXA OF GEAT, 



each side of the telsoD, and on the rami of the appendages of the 

 sixth segment ; a conspicuous white longitudinal band on each 

 side of the dorsum. 



Log. Moreton Bay, on sand banks. 



Habitat or Cyprcea citrina of Geat. 



Br J. Beaziee, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



There appears to be some doubt about the correct habitat of 

 this species. When first described by Gray he gave the locality as 

 Madagascar. Eeeve in his Monograph of the genus makes no 

 mention of any locality. Sowerby in his Conchological Illustra- 

 tions and Thes. Conch, gives Madagascar. Through the kindness 

 of Mr. J. P. Bailey of Victoria, I am enabled to give a true and 

 correct locality of this rare species. In the month of May of 

 this year, Mr. Bailey bought a large quantity of shells from a 

 Chinaman, who obtained them while pearling at the Kowley 

 Shoals, on the North- west Coast of Australia ; and in the lot 

 Avere a large quantity of veiy fine Cifprcca Mauritiana, reticulata, 

 ci/lindrica, suhcylindrica, lielvola, pmitherina, and one example of 

 citrina. 



LtPONIA citeixa. 



Cyprcea citrina. Gray, (non Kiener) Zoological Journal, vol. i., 

 p. 509, No. 79, (1825), vol. iv., p. 8G (1828); Conch. Illust., pi. 2, 

 sp. 48, fig. 9. Eeeve, Conch. Icon. pi. 16, species 78, (1815). 

 Jay's Catalogue of Shells, p. 388, No. 10,111, (1850). Sowerby, 

 Thes. Conch., pi. 25, fig. 218-219 (1870). Pa?te], Catalog der 

 Conchylien-Sammlung, p. 7,52, (1873). 



Hob. — ? fJReeve)', Madagascar /'(xr^// and >S'o{r('';'iy) ; Eowley 

 Shoals, North-west Coast of Australia (Bailey). 



Tlie specimen described by Gray was from the collection of 

 Mr. Humphrey who had it under the name of the Small faJ&c 



