CYPR^A. 



Plate XXII. 



(All magnified to twice their length except Kg. 122 and 124.) 



Species 120. (Mus. Cuming.) 



DYPE.i:A GooDALLi. Cypr. testa ohlongo-omtd, laterihim 

 suhmarginatis, bast depressd, dentibus pants ; nived, 

 dorso macula grandi irregulari aurantio-fiiscd piclo, 

 laterihis fusco-punctatu. 



Joodall's Coweey. Shell oblong-ovate, sides slightly 

 margined, base depressed, teeth small ; snowy white, 

 painted with a lai-ge in-egular orange-brown blotch, 

 sides dotted with brown. 



lEAY ; Sowerby, Conch. Illus. Cypraeadae. no. 76. f. 16. 



lab. Lord Hood's Island, Pacific Ocean (on the sands) ; 

 Cmning. 



A delicate snowy white shell conspicuously stained on 

 lie back with a large square irregularly reticulated bright 

 irange-brown blotch. 



Species 131. (Mus. Gaskoin.) 



!ypej;a contaminata. Cijpr. testa subpyriformi-ovatd, 

 lateribus suhmarglnatis, dodibus parvis, extremitatibus 

 subprodiietis, refiexis ; dorso canieo-ftiscescente subob- 

 sctire fasciato, minutissime pallide fusco-punctato, ma. 

 culd fused centrali, lateribus basique fusco conspicui 

 ptmctatia. . 



HE distained Coweey. Shell somewhat pyriformly 

 ovate, sides slightly margined, teeth small, extremi- 

 ties rather produced, reflexed; back fleshy brown, 

 obsciu-ely banded, dotted with pale brown, with a 

 central brown spot, base and sides conspicuously 

 dotted with dark brown. 



KAY ; Sowerby, Conch. lUus. Cypraeadae no. 96. f. 21 



red,. ? 



An interesting well-defined species in the collection of 

 [r. Gaskoin of which Air. Cuming also possesses an ex- 

 aple. 



Species 122. (Mus. Brit.) 

 (Natural size.) 



irPE^A Gaskoini. Cypr. testa snbablremato-ovatd, so- 

 Udiusculd, lateribus incrassatis, marginatis, dentibus 

 fortiusculis ; dorso fulvo-stramineo, ocelKs albidis. fus- 

 co aunulatis, parviiiscuUs, sparsim ornato, lateribus cas- 

 taneo-pmictatis, basi alba. 



Gaskoin's Coweey. Shell somewhat shortly ovate, ra- 

 ther soHd, sides thickened, margined, teeth rather 

 strong ; back yellowish straw-colour, sparingly orna- 

 mented with rather smaU white eyes, encircled ^-ith 

 pale brown rings, sides dotted with chesnut, base 

 wliite. 



Reeve, Pro. Zool. Soc. 1S16. 



IM. ? 



Tills interesting species of wliich I have seen two spe- 

 cimens, one in the British JIuseum and one in the coUec- 

 tiou of Ml-. Gaskoin, partakes of the characters of the Cy- 

 prmiB Cumingii and esontropia, bearing such a relation to 

 the former as the latter does to the C. crihraria. The sides 

 are stoutly thickened and spotted like the C. esontropia, 

 and the back is covered with the same kind of smaU clear 

 ringed eyes as the C. Cmningii. As the accompanying 

 figui-e has rather a diminutive appearance in comparison 

 with the sm-roimding species, it may be as weU to caU at- 

 tention to the circumstance of the outer figures of this 

 plate being considerably magnified, whilst the two in the 

 centre are of the natm-al size. I dedicate it with a gi-eat 

 deal of pleasure to J. S. Gaskoin Esq., a gentleman to 

 whom we are much indebted not only for the liberal use 

 of a coUection of Cypraa exhibiting abnost every imagin- 

 able variety of growth and colour of each species, but^for 

 his essential services in working out the small ribbed kinds 

 which constitute Mr. Gray's genus Trivia. 



Species 123. (Mus. Cuming.) 



CYPR.12A MARGAEITA. Cypr. testd pyrifomii-ovatd, late- 

 ribus submargiuatis et foveolatis, extremitatibus rostra- 

 tis, productis, aperturd subflexosd, angustd, dentibus 

 parvis; pallide stramined; dorso ocellis albis grandibus 

 parvisque, lined dorsali pallidd flexuosd, profuse or- 

 nato, basi churned, immacidatd. 



The pearl Coweey. Shell pyriformly ovate, sides 

 sHghtly margined and pitted, extremities beaked, pro- 

 duced, aperture rather flexuous, naiTow, teeth small ; 

 pale straw-colour, back profusely ornamented with 

 large and smaU white eyes, with a pale flexuous dor- 

 sal line, base ivory white, unspotted. 



Solandee; Gray, Zool. Journal vol. iv. p. 87. 



February 1846. 



