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Variety. (Zool. P. 1835.—C. Lupinaria. Lesson.) Pale, the 
anterior slope and lunule violet ; with concentric lines which pos- 
teriorly are lamellar, and elsewhere rounded and irregular; spines 
very long and distant.—Variety. C. Violet, smooth, except at 
the umbones and posterior side which are somewhat lamellated ; 
spines very distant, thickish, moderate in length.— W. Indies and 
S. America. 
C. Arasica. Lam. 40.—Del. t. 9. f. 4.—V. Pecruncutus. 
Dp. 184.—W. t. 7. f. 58.— Ch. f. 1963. to 70.—V. CaLiyPiGa. 
Born. t.5. f. 1. (fide Deshayes) —D. p. 186.—W. t. 8. f. 63. 
Obovate heart-shaped, very convex, thick, inequilateral, grooved 
transversely, (the grooves often becoming obsolete in the centre, ) 
extremely variable in colouring, being covered with brown angular 
markings on a pale ground, and sometimes with rays of spots on a 
paler ground ; lunule lanceolate, ill-defined.— Variety. Brown 
with scattered white spots. 1.— Red Sea. 
C. Trarmacurata. Lam. 41.—An. Venus Puryne. Gimel. 
no. 21.7 Somewhat rounded heart-shaped, the ventral edge much 
arcuated, with strong concentric striz, rayed with rich brown and 
white ; lunule and lozenge dark brown, the latter sub-cordiform oval, 
ill-defined : inside white, with a livid brown stain on each muscular 
scar and beneath the beaks. 1.—Jndian Seas? 
C.Immacurata. Lam, 42. Rounded heart-shaped, anterior 
end the shorter and more tumid, white within and without, and 
striated transversely ; lunule somewhat heart shaped. 12.— Bears 
some resemblance to List. t. 263. f. 99. (W.t. 6. f. 11.)8 
C. Pertucipa. Lam. 43. Oval, thin, pellucid, white with 
transverse fulvous letter-like lines ; beaks rufous and obliquely in- 
flected : a violet spot at the base ofits lunule. 12.—New Holland. 
C. Hepatica. Lam, 44.—Del. t. 9. f.8. Obliquely rounded, 
inequilateral, delicately striated transversely, and marked longitu- 
dinally with minute lineoles: whitish within and without, with 
livid violet stains : lunule almost obsolete. 19.— South Seas. 
C. Lucinaris. Lam. 45.— Del. t. 9. f. 2. Lenticular, sub- 
equilateral, inflected with a longitudinal groove on the anterior 
side, with raised concentric striz and minute uninterrupted longi- 
tudinal lineoles, very pale violet and rufous at the beaks: lunule 
defined by an impressed line: livid within. 14. 
C. Lunaris. Lam. 46.—Venus Lupinus. Poli. 2.t. 21. 
f.8.—Payr. Cat. no. 80. Sub-orbicular, oblique, white, with con- 
‘centric transverse striz ; beaks stained with purple ; lunule heart- 
shaped 1°.—Gulf of Tarrentum.4 
3 We have not recognized this species, but give a copy of the 
shell said by Lamare to resemble it. 
+ Philippi considers this as a variety of Lincta. 
