cypraea. 451 



Lister Conch, t. 680. f. 7. Martini, i. t. 28. f. 283, 284. 



Inhabits the coasts of the Maldives. Martini. 



Shell about ten lines long, and six broad ; the colour on the 

 upper part is livid, or pale greenish yellow, dotted with fer- 

 ruginous, and marked with obsolete transverse bands, on 

 which are a few irregular pale purplish blotches : the base, 

 margin, and extremities are yellow, with large dark purple 

 spots. Young and decorticated shells have their backs with- 

 out any spots, and of a rich bluish brown colour. This spe- 

 cies has been erroneously placed by Gmeliu in the umbilicat- 

 ed division, and Schreibers has most strangely arranged it as 

 a variety of C. asellus. 



cinerea. 27. Shell ovate-oblong, cinereous, with 

 two pale bands, and irregularly dotted with 

 black, particularly about the margin. 



Cypraea cinerea. Gmelin, p. 3402. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 58. 

 Cypraea, No. 6. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 134. 

 Lister Conch, t. 667- f. 11, and t. 670. f. 16. Gualter, t. 

 16. f. M. Martini, i. t. 25. f. 254 and 255. 



Inhabits the coasts of Barbadoes and Jamaica. Lister. 



Shell generally an inch, or an inch and a quarter long, and half as 

 broad ; cinereous, or testaceous, with two paler bluish trans- 

 verse bands, and marked somewhat like Mocho, with irregular 

 scattered black dots, which are generally remarkably cluster- 

 ed together about the margin ; the base is nearly white, with 

 the interstices of the teeth blackish. Martini's figures are 

 not well done, but his description leaves no doubt that they 

 belong to this species, and most of the other figures above 

 referred to are taken from shells which have hardly arrived 

 at maturity. 



Isabella. 28. Shell-sub-cylindrical, with dotted 

 longitudinal lines, and yellow extremities. 



Cypraea Isabella. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1177- Martini, i. 



p. 357. t. 27. f. 275. Bom Mus. p. 183. Schroeter 



Einl. i. p. 113. Gmelin, p. 3409. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 65. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 94. 

 Lister Conch, t. 660. f. 4. Rumphius, t. 39- f. G. Petiver 



Amb. t. 16. f. 16. Argenville, t. 18. f. P. Knorr, iv. 



t. 9. f. 5. Enc. Method, t. 355. f. 6. 

 Inhabits the coast of Madagascar and the Mauritius. Listen 

 Amboyna. Rumphius. 



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