DESCRIPTION. 139 



Lister Conch. Tab. 764. Fig. 13. 



Specimen white, with bluish, red, and yellow 

 clouds, and transverse interrupted chesnut lines; 

 aperture bluish, base marked with obsolete oblique 

 striae ; spire acute, smooth, spotted, finely striated 

 transversely. 



Inhabits India, Africa, and South America. 



PLATE XIV. 



Fig. 1. Cypr^ea Arabica. 



Shell subturbinate, marked with Oriental cha- 

 racters ; longitudinal stripe simple. 



Lister Conch. Tab. 659. 



Specimen above with bluish-white spots, between 

 them taviTiy ; confluent brown and purple spots on 

 the thickened sides, within pale violet, lips some- 

 what rounded ; teeth brown. 



This second variety of the C. Arabica is so very 

 different from the first, that it might without im- 

 propriety constitute a separate species. The form 

 of the first is longer and narrower, more lengthened 

 at the base, depressed and not elevated upon the 

 back, lips perfectly fiat, or slightly concave and 



