CYPE^A.— Plate VIII. 



Testa junior. 



Tesla junior palUde fulvescem, fasciis quaternis carneolk 



cingulata. 

 Younger sbell pale fulvous, encircled with four camelion 



bands. 



Lamakck, Ann. du mus. p. 452. 



Cypraa achatina, Solander MSS. DlUwjti. 



Cyprtea carneola, Martj'n. 

 Hah. Island of Annaa, Pacific Ocean (found on the reefs) ; 



Cuming. 



Lamarck appears to have published this species under 

 the above title before Dr. Solanders's manuscript name was 

 recorded by Dillwyn. The shell is a tndy solid mass of 

 enamel, the sides of which are profusely striated with a 

 number of extremely fine scratch-hke striae. The obser- 

 vations on the arrangement of the colours ia the preceding 

 species apply specially to this. 



Species 29. (Pig. a. and. b. Mus. Saul.) 



CypejEA sulcidentata. Cypr. testa ovatd, crassissima, 

 laterihus turgidis, basi convexd, apertiird angustd, den- 

 tibus elongatis, valde prominentlbus, interstiisprofunde 

 excavatis; dorso ctsruleo-dnereo, fasciis quaternis fm- 

 cescentihus sididistantibus ornato, laier'ibtm granuhso- 

 ai'enaceis, baMfumeo-albicante. 



The geooved-toothed Cowky. Shell ovate, very thick, 

 sides swollen, convex at the base, aperture narrow, 

 teeth elongated, interstices deeply excavated; base 

 blueish ash-colour, ornamented with four rather dis- 

 tant pale brown bands, sides brown gi-anulously are- 

 naceous, base smoky-white. 



Geay, Zool. Jom-nal, vol. 1. p. 148. f. 5. 



Hab. South Seas. 



The deeply excavated interstices of the teeth which are 

 like those of the Cyprma leucodon, amply distinguish this 

 species from the Cypraa arenosa to which it so closely ap- 

 proximates in general appearance ; the colours are of a 

 duUer brown, and the base is of a duU smoky white. Ano- 

 ther peculiarity by which it differs from that species is, 

 that the sandy border round the sides does not rise in striae 

 but subsides in sediment-like gi'anules. 



Species 30. (Mus. Brit.) 



CwUMh. GUTTATA. Cypr.testd,oblongo-ovatd,subpyriformi, 

 laleribus marline recurvis, basi depressiusculd, aperturd 

 sinuosd, dentibus parvis, in liris per basem contimtatis, 

 liris subirregularibus, rngiferis, hie illic btfurcatis, 

 supra marginem et ad latera exorientibus ; columelld 

 Icevi; dorso Jlavescente-fusco, guttis albis vari/e magni- 

 tndinu asperso, hiatu dorsali latiiisculo, dentibus liris- 

 que vivide crocato-rufis 



The spotted Cowry. Shell oblong-ovate, somewhat 

 pyriform, sides recurved round the margin, base 

 rather depressed, aperture sinuous, teeth small, con- 

 tinued across the base in ridges, ridges rather irregu- 

 lar, wrinkled, bifiu-cated here aud there, passing over 

 the margin arid rising upon the sides ; back yeUow- 

 ish-brown, sprinkled with white spots of various sizes, 

 dorsal hiatus rather wide, teeth and ridges rich saf- 

 fi-on-red. 



Gray, Zool. Journal, vol. 1. p. 511. pi. 18. f. 1 and 2. 



Eab. ? 



This very rare and remarkable shell is the largest species 

 of that division of the genus to which the Cypraa erosa 

 and Lamarckii belong. Its chief peculiarity consists in the 

 teeth extending across the base ki bright saffron-red ridges, 

 each of which passes over the edge and a little way up the 

 side, terminating in a point ; they have a somewhat irre- 

 gidar wrinkled appearance, and are here and there forked. 

 The white spots on the back are extremely variable in size, 

 and, as in the Cypraa nitellus, have the appearance of a 

 miniature firmament of stars of different degi-ees of magni- 

 tude. The back of the shell is not, however, so highly 

 enamelled as in that species, nor are the spots of the same 

 round definite character. 



1 have seen three specimens of the Cyprma guttata, one, 

 fi-om which the accompanying figure is taken, in the Bri- 

 tish Museum, one in the Leyden Museum, and one in Mr. 

 Norris's collection, at Preston. There are also two which 

 I have not had the pleasure of seeing ; one lately received 

 from Amsterdam, in the collection of Mr. Dennison of 

 Liverpool, and another (I am told) in that of Mr. John- 

 ston, of Berwick-on-Tweed. It appears to have been well- 

 known to Martini, as it is figured by that author in the first 

 volume of his " Conehylien Cabinet," PI. 25. f. 252. and 

 253., published in 1769, under the title of " Arg-us flat-m 

 tenuis ocellis lacteis." 



