GeuHs Cyprcxa. 219 



As it is only four months since this was described, it may 

 not be amiss to transcribe the particulars. "C. testa ovata, 

 antice subprolongata, dorso convexiusculo, lilacino, tribus 

 brunneis fasciis decorato, fascia centrali distinctiore et 

 latiore, lateribus albis parcipunctatis, extremitalibus imma- 

 culatis, dentibus parvulis, albis, basi alba nitente. Long. 18 

 mm., lat. 1 1 mm. Habitat ? " 



"A very pretty addition to the known species of cowry, 

 albeit of small size, the disposition of the brown bands on 

 the lilac ground is a little like the arrangement in C. san- 

 giiinolenta (Gmelin), the shape and upper surface slightly 

 recall C. macula (Adams), though the underside has a per- 

 fectly different disposition of teeth, C, macula being allied 

 more to th^fimbriata section of the genus. Nothing at all 

 nearly resembling this cowry is to be found in the National 

 Collection, or in the latest monograph (that of Mr. Raymond 

 Roberts). With this shell I have associated the name of my 

 late friend Mr. Jonathan Rashleigh, Junr., of Menabilly, Corn- 

 wall, who died December, 1872, aged only 27. His collec- 

 tion of Cyprsea was extremely large and perfect, and had 

 he lived he would have made great mark in a science to 

 which he was profoundly attached. 



Of this unique shell I am glad to be able to give a 

 photographic representation (fig. 3). I consider it now nearer 

 to C. tabescens than inacnla^ or any of \he Jimbriata section, 

 but differing as much from the stunted form of tabescens 

 on the one hand, as C. teres does from the smaller, more 

 elongate variety. 



C. stolida (L.). Type, Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. xiv., 

 f. 6y^, 67^. Sowb., T. C, pi. XXX., f. 327, 329. 



{a) moniontha (var. nov.), (fig. 4). Dorsal surface rounded, 

 not humped, with one rounded blotch only, and occasionally 

 this is absent, sides streaked and speckled, teeth not so 

 prolonged, white. Length in largest specimen i^ inch. 

 This is intermediate between the type and C. brevidentata 

 (Sowb.). A common form, almost a sub-species. 



