CYPRAEA. 457 



Cypraea, No. 22. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 139. 

 Petiver Gaz. t. 97- f. 21. Martini, i. t. 27. f. 278, 279. 



Inhabits the East Indies. Humphreys. 



Shell rather more than an inch long, and about half as broad, 

 of a light olive green, mottled all over the back with rusty 

 brown, and sometimes marked with two obsolete paler bands. 

 The margin and base are white or paler flesh colour, and 

 thickly coated with enamel ; inside violet. The shells from 

 which this description is taken were procured from Mr. 

 Humphreys under the name of C. virescens, which in Cal- 

 lone's Catalogue is said to be the Linnaean C. Err ones, and 

 they answer to Dr. Solander's as well as Born's descriptions, 

 except that the solitary dorsal spot noticed by Linnaeus is 

 wanting, and according to the observations both of Solander 

 and Lamarck, this is occasionally found in the same species. 

 Born has erroneously referred to Martini, f. 294, 295. but 

 his description was obviously taken from the present shell, 



pyrum. 42. Shell ovate, yellowish, mottled with 

 pale brown spots, and marked with two paler 

 bands ; base and margin saffron colour. 



Cypraea Pyrum. Gmelin, p. 3411. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 69. 

 Cypraea flaveola. Bom Mus. p. 1Q0. 

 Cypraea maculosa. Gmelin, p. 3412. 

 Cypraea ochracea. Solander's MS S. Portland Catalogue. 

 Cypraea Siciliana. Ulysses's Travels, p. 455. 

 Cypraea rufa. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 92. 

 Cypraea, No. 16. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 138. 

 Bonanni Rec. 3. f. 259, and Kirch, f. 258. Gualter, t. 

 14. f. E. Martini, i. t. 26. f. 267 and 268. 



Inhabits the coasts of Sicily. Bonanni. Africa and Malaga. 

 Martini. 



Shell about an inch and a half long, and rather less than half 

 as broad, ovate, and somewhat pear-shaped; the back is 

 mottled with mixt shades of light brown and yellow, and 

 marked with two paler transverse bands ; the sides and base 

 are of a dark ochre or saffron colour, and the inside pale 

 violet. Bonanni's figure, on which Gmelin's C. maculosa 

 depends, is very bad, but the description leaves no doubt that 

 it was intended for this species ; and C. variolosa, and C. 

 fulva of Gmelin, and C. cinnamomaa of Olivi, are probably 

 only Varieties of the same. 



