CYPRiEA. 



Plate IV. 



Species 10. (Mus. Saul.) 



Cypr/Ea Scottii. Ci/pr. testa ohiongo-naviformi, extremi- 

 tatibus contradis et erecto-recurvis, aperturi angustd, 

 sinuatd, dentibus parvis, numerosis, interioribm plus 

 minusve oisoktis, exteiiorihis, qnormn nonmdlis medi- 

 ants hipartitis, brevilms ; dorso cinereo-ccerulescente, 

 flavesceiite-fusco promiscue macnlato et nebulato, bast 

 laterilmque piceo-fitscis. 

 Scott's Cowry. Shell oljlong-boat-sliaped, extremities 

 contracted and erectly rccurvitd, apertm-e narrow, sinii- 

 ated, teeth small, numerous, the inner more or less 

 obsolete, the outer, some of the middle of which are 

 bipartite, short ; back pale ashy blue, promiscuously 

 blotched and clouded with yellowish brown, base and 

 sides dark pitchy brown. 



Variety /3. 



Testa brevior, dorso gihboso-eJevato, maculis omnino nebnla- 



tis ; dentibus exterioribus basem super framcurrentibus. 



Shell shorter, back gibbously elevated, -ndth the spots 



wholly clouded into each other ; outer teeth running 



across the base. 



Testa junior. 

 Testa junior cceruleo-lactea, obscure fasciata, macnlis Jlaves- 



cente-fuscis liic ilUc ornata, colmnelltF bad alhicante. 

 Younger shell blueish mUky colour, obscurely banded, or- 

 namented here and there with pale yellowish-brown 

 blotches ; base of the columella whitish. 

 Testa juvenis. 

 Testa juvenis uniusmodi lacteo-aurantia, columella bad nivea. 

 ■Young shell imifonn milky orange colour, base of the co- 

 hunella snowy white. 

 Broderip, Zool. Journal, vol. v. p. 330. pi. 14. f. 1. 



and 2. 

 C\jpraa Friendii, Gray. 

 Hob. Swan Eiver, New Holland. Variety j3. Port Lincoln, 

 New Holland. 

 This vei-y striking species was introduced about foiu-teen 

 years since, by Mr. Broderip, in the Zoological Jom-nal, 

 from two eroded specimens, brought by the Rev. Arch- 

 deacon Scott, from Aagia, in the Island of Java. Since 

 then, several examples in the finest possible condition have 

 been received from Swan Eiver, New Holland, with a very 



characteristic variety fi'om Port Lincoln of the same conti- 

 tinent ; and I am now enabled to give an amended de- 

 scription of it in different states of growth. The shell in 

 its first Bulla, or rather Cymba, fonn, is of an uniform 

 piu-e clear milky orange colour, it then assumes a blueish 

 tinge disposed in obscure bands, and begins to show a few 

 bright tortoise-shell browTi blotches, which rapidly accu- 

 mulate, as exhibited in the adult, long before there is any 

 indication of teeth. This is an arrangement different to 

 that of most Cowries, in which the teeth are chiefly de- 

 veloped before the last layer of colouring matter is depo- 

 sited. The sides and base then become thickened with an 

 extremely rich pitchy brown coating of enamel, and the 

 extremities compressed and turned upwards. 



The variety from Port Lincoln differs most conspicuously 

 both in form and colour ; it is much shorter, the back is 

 swollen and elevated almost into a hump, the extremities 

 are blunted, and the outer teeth, which in the Swan Eiver 

 variety are scarcely more than marginal, extend across the 

 base, especially the anterior portion, in gi-ooved prominent 

 ridges. The inner teeth of this species are very obscure ; 

 indeed, the columella is mostly edentulate. 



The young of this species and several others will be fi- 

 gured together at the close of the monograph. 



Species 11. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Cypr^a aurantium. Cypr. testa oblongo-ovatd, ventri- 

 cosd, immacidatd, dorso dentibus interstitiisque vivide 

 mrantiis, basi lateribus et extremitatibus lacteis. 



The orange Cowry. Shell oblong-ovate, ventricose, 

 unspotted, back, teeth, and interstices bright orange, 

 base, sides, and extremities milk-white. 

 Testa junior. 



Testa junior columella vivide aurantid. 



Younger shell with the columella bright orange. 

 Martyn, Universal Conchology, vol. 2. f. 59. 

 L' Orange, Favanne. 

 Cyprtea aurora, Solander, MSS. Chemnitz. 



Eab, Taheite, Pacific Islands. 



The history of this rare and beautiful species has been 

 so often described, that it orJy remains to call attention 

 to an interesting example in the British Museum, not quite 



November 1845. 



