CYPE^A.— Plate IX. 



side with a ricli blackish-brown blotch, base with a 

 warm niddy olive tinge, teeth lake-brown, inner 

 midcUe teeth sometimes bifurcated, flowing partially 

 over the base. 



Gray, Zool. Journal, vol. i. p. 143. 



Hah. Red Sea. 



Although there is so close an approximation between 

 tlu' painting of the back of this species and the Cypraa 

 Jnridn, they are eminently distinct at the base. The teeth of 

 the Cypraa pulchra are of a em'ious half-obsolete character, 

 and peculiarly coloured, and the middle of the inner row 

 are extended in lines a little way over the base, wliich just 

 at that point has a slight concave depression. 



The name pulchella, originally given to this species by 

 Mr. Gray, at page 143 of the ' Zoological Joui'ual,' vol. i. 

 liaving been pre-occiipied by Mr. Swainson, it was altered 

 to pulclira at page 379 of the same volume. 



Species 35. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Cypr^a ebtiena. Cypr. testa depresso-ovatd, turguJa, 

 antice contracts, marginibm sul/obscure foveolafis, aper- 

 turd latinsadd, antice dilatatd, dentihm brevibus,for- 

 tibiis, subdistantibus ; extm undiqtte churned, intm 

 fidvo-fuscescente. 



The ivoby Cowrey. Shell depressly ovate, swollen, 

 contracted anteriorly, margins somewhat obscurely 

 pitted, apertm-e rather wide, dilated anteriorly, teeth 

 short ; strong, rather distant ; outside ivory-white, 

 inside fulvous brown. 



Barnes, Annals Lyceum Nat. Hist., New York, vol. i. 

 p. 133. pi. 9. f 2. 



Hub. Philippine Islands ; Cuming. 



This shell has so much the form of the Cyprma Lamarckii 

 that it has been regarded as a white variety of that species. 

 It is, however, constantly distinct, a piu-e highly polished 

 ivory white shell, fulvous brown mthin. 



