C Y P R iE A. 



Plate III. 



Species 7. (Mus. Saul.) 



C\PB,EA PANTHEMNA. Cypr. testd milpyriformi-ovatd, 

 venhicosittscula, exiremitatibus subattermatis, apertura, 

 antice pauhdiim Idmite, dentlhm pan'msculis, praci- 

 pm columellaribus ; alhkld, fia w riifove inqidnatd, dorso 

 guttis nigricante-fmcis, interdum coeruleo-nebulatis aut 

 iutense castaneis, profuse picto, lined dorsoli ferrugineo- 

 rufd, lateribus sape rnfo aut v'wlaceo tinctis. 



The panther Cowry. Shell somewhat pyrifonnly ovate, 

 rather ventricose, extremities slightly attenuated, aper- 

 ture a Uttly gaping at the anterior end, teeth rather 

 small, especially the columeUar ; whitish, besmeared 

 with red and yellow, back profusely painted with 

 intensely chesnut or ljlackish-bro\vu spots, sometimes 

 clouded \vith blue, dorsal line rusty red, sides often 

 tinged with red or violet. 



Testa junior. 



Testa junior cinereo-viridescens, fulvo rufoque nebulata. 



Younger shell ashy green, mottled with red and yellow. 

 SoLANDER, DUlwyn, Cat. of Shells, v. 1. p. -t-iO. 

 Cyprate guttata and tigrina, Lamarck. 

 Monstrosity. Cypraa tmibilicata, Sowerby. 



Hab. Eed Sea. 



This shell, which has been received in extraordinary 

 abundance fi'om the Red Sea, varies in colour from a pale 

 sickly white to a very deep chesnut red, profusely adorned 

 wth small blackish-brown spots clouded with blue. 



The shell, described and iigured by Mi. Sowerby in the 

 TankervOle Catalogue, under thename of Cypraa umbilicala, 

 has been subsequently acknowledged a monstrosity. 



The name tigrina, given to this species by Lamarck, 

 would certainly have been adopted had it not been pre- 

 viously used, though erroneously, by GmeKn. The names 

 given to shells by Dr. Solander are of no authority unless 

 adopted and printed by any subsequent natiu-alist ; 

 although they appear in a manuscript to which all the 

 world may have access, yet, they have never been strictly 

 published. 



Species 8. (Mus. Saul.) 



Cyprjia Aegus. Cypr. testd ovato-ohlongd,suhcylindraced, 

 medio leviter contractd, aperturd subangustd, dentibus 

 mediocris, mcmerosis ; lacteo-fuseescente, dorso trifas- 

 ciatOj/asciis latis, diametrorum variorum auuulis de/or- 



mibus fulvo-fmcescentibus, plus minmve nmnerosis, quo- 

 rum noimulUs impleiis, promiscue picto, bad maculis 

 quaternls mgricante-casfa?wis ornatd, quarum duabus 

 columellaribus multo tnajorihui ; dentibus fusco-mar- 

 ginatis. 

 The Aegus Cowry. Shell ovately oblong, somewhat 

 cyUndiical, slightly contracted in the middle, aperture 

 rather narrow, teeth middling, nimierous ; pale mUky 

 brown, back three-banded, bands broad, promiscu- 

 ously painted with a greater or less number of mis- 

 shapen fulvous brown rings of different diameters, 

 some of which ai-e filled in, base ornamented with 

 four large blackish chesimt spots, two on each side 

 the aperture, of which the colimieUar are much the 

 larger ; teeth edged with bro^vn. 

 Testa juvenis. 

 Testa juvenis fiiluescente-fusca, fasciis plurimis angustis, ma- 

 culis castaneis perpaucis irregularibus interrupfm, cin- 

 gulata. 

 Young shell pale fidvous brown, ench'cled with several 

 narrow bands, interrupted with a very few ii'regular 

 chesnut blotches. 



LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat. (12th edit.) p. 1173. 

 Hab. Ceylon, &c. 



It is difficult to conceive from what peculiar modifica- 

 tion of the mantle, this shell receives its curious deposite 

 of rings. They are of very m'egular size, and much more 

 numerous in some specimens than in others, one here and 

 there being filled up with coloui'. I have t\vo or thi'ee 

 very young examples of this species in the Bulla ibrni 

 collected by Mr. Cuming, but never remember to have seen' 

 it in the stage of gi'owth, before the rings are diffused. 



The Cypraa Argus is well named after the hundred-eyed 

 Ai-estorides, although its imaginary eyes vary in different 

 specimens from one to at least five hundred in number. 



Species 9. (Fig. a. Mus. Saul, Fig. b. Mus. Cuming.) 



Cypr.ea testudinaeia. Cypr. testa elongato-ovatd, sub- 

 cylindraced, crassd, extremitatem versus utrinque declivi- 

 bus, aperturd angustd, dentibus parviusculis, mmwrosis ; 

 lacteo-fuseescente, dorso fulvo castaneoque nebulato et 

 inaculato, punctulls albis furfuraceis profuse adsperso, 

 basi incarnato-fuscd. 



November 1845. 



