448 CYPR^A. 



Shell usually about three inches and a half long, and two and a 

 quarter broad ; ovate, solid, with a wide somewhat dilated 

 base, and the back much raised : the colour is blackish brown, 

 becoming rather paler upwards, and marked with dingy pur- 

 plish spots. Young shells are shaded with brown, and vari- 

 ously marked with triangular spots and bands, which remain 

 after the aperture is matured, and till they are concealed by 

 the overspreading of the last coat of enamel. 



vitellus. 21. Shell ovate, sub-ventricose, livid, 

 with white spots ; and the sides finely striated. 



Cypraea Vitellus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1 176. Martini, i. p. 



327. t. 23. f. 228, and (decorticated) 229- Born Mus. 



p. 181. Schroeter Einl. i. p. 109- Gmelin, p. 3407. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 63. Lamarck Ann. du Mus, xvi. 



p. 89- 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 254. Lister Conch, t. 693. 



f. 40. Gualter, t. 13. f.T, V. Knorr, vi. t. 20. f. 3. 



Favanne, t. 30. f. 1 2. Encyc. Method, t. 354. f. 6. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Straights of 

 Sunda. Lister. Holalihoe, Island of St. Oma. Martini. 

 Shell from one inch and a half to two inches and a half long, 

 and about half as broad ; the colour is a pale greenish livid 

 brown, with round white spots, and marked with fine some- 

 what dotted striae, particularly on one side. The base is 

 white, and the inside blue. 

 The shell figured in the Universal Conchology, t. 96, under the 

 name of C. subfuscula, a good deal resembles C. Vitellus, 

 but is larger, and the base is fawn-coloured. Martyn has not 

 given any description, and I have been unable to procure a 

 specimen. 



MUS. 22. Shell ovate, gibbous, whitish, mottled 

 with cinereous ; dorsal line white, and edged 

 with black spots ; teeth brown. 



Cypraea Mus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1176. Martini, i. p. 

 325. t. 23. f. 222 and 223. Born Mus. p. 182. Schroe- 

 ter Einl. i. p. 1 10. Gmelin, p. 3407. Schreibers Conch. 

 p. 63. Lamarck in Ann. du Mus. xv. p. 451. 



Rumphius, t. 39. f. S. Petiver Amb. t. 16. f. 4. Argen- 

 ville, t. 18. f. E. Seba, iii. t. 76. f.33 and 34. Knorr, 

 iii. t. 12. f. 3. Favanne, t. 30. f. A. Enc. Method. 

 t. 354. f. 1. 



