CYPE.EA. 203 



The species has a superficial reserablance to the common 

 M. echinophura, Liun., of the Upper Tertiaiy of the Siediterrauean 

 area. 



Dimensions. — Length 29 mm.; breadth 19 mm.; length of 

 aperture and canal 18 mm. 



Form, and Loc. — Eocene : Victoria. 



73225. Specimens showing stages of growth ; from Schnapper 

 Point. Purchased. 



G. 4180. An example of the neanic stage of growth ; from 

 Muddy Creek. Purchased. 



Morio, sp. 



G. 9559. Cast of a species of Morio allied to M. gradata, Tate ; 

 from the Miocene of Port Hills, Nelson, New Zealand. 



Sir James Hector Coll. 



Family CYPE^ID^. 



Genus CYPR-ffiA, Linnaeus. 



[Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 718 ; id. ed. 12, vol. i. 1767, p. 1172.] 

 Vulgusella, Jousseaume, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, t. ix. 1884, p. 90. 



Shell ovoid, Tentricose, enamelled ; spire (except in young 

 stages of growth) enveloped by the body-whorl, or covered over 

 by a thin coating; aperture narrow, extending the whole length 

 of the shell, Canaliculate at each extremity ; both inner and outer 

 margins crenulate. 



The following was selected as the type of the genus by Lamarck:^ 



2\i2)e. — Cyprcea mappa, Linnasus. 



Cypraea scalena, Tate. 



1890. Cijprcea scalena, Tate, Trans. Eoy. Soc. South Aust. vol. xiii. pt. 2, 

 p. 203. 

 i 1892. Cijpraa scalena, Tate, id. vol. xiii. siipp. pi. v. figs. 2, 2a. 



Shell oval -oblong, spire completely hidden; aperture and 

 I phenomena connected therewith very similar to that of C. suhsidua; 



i Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1799, p. 69. 



