462 CYPR^A. 



Larva of C. erosa, and of C. gangranosa, which are there 

 confounded together. 



flaveola. 51. Shell yellowish with white dots ; 

 margin thickened and jagged, white, with 

 obsolete scattered brown spots. 



Cypraea flaveola. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1179. Gmelin, p. 

 3416. 



Inhabits 



Born supposed C. Pyrum to be this species, but it does not 

 correspond with the Linnaean character, and other authors 

 have with greater probability stated their opinions, that the 

 shell described by Linnaeus was a Variety of C. erosa. 



spurca. 52. Shell ovate, yellowish, with darker 

 spots ; margin slightly thickened, and its 

 upper edge crenulated, and dotted with 

 brown. 



Cyproea spurca. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1179. Gmelin, p. 



3416. 

 Cypraea acicularis. Gmelin, p. 3421. Schreibers Conch. 



i. p. 79. 

 Cypraea flaveola. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 97. 

 Cypraea, No. 37. Schroeter Einleitung, i. p. 144. 

 Martini, i. t. 31. f. 335. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean Sea. Linnceus. 



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

 with a very narrow margin, of which the upper edge is every 

 where crenulated, and dotted with brown ; the base and in- 

 side are white. Gmelin's C. acicularis answers so well to 

 the description of this species in the Systema Naturae that I 

 have no doubt of its being the same. Born's C. spurca, (t. 

 8. f. 14.) which is C. oblonga of Gmelin, is very obviously 

 a young shell belonging to some other species. Lamarck 

 has quoted Born's figure, and also Enc. Meth. t. 355. f. 9- 

 for his C. Turdus, which may probably be rather a young 

 shell of C. Vanelli. 



stolida. 53. Shell oblong-ovate, umbilicated, sub- 

 glaucous, with a large square ferruginous 

 spot on the back. 



Cypraea stolida. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1180. Born Mus. p. 

 19. t. 8. f. 15. Chemnitz, xi. p. 41. 1. 180. f. 1743 and 

 1744. Lamarck Ann, du Mus, xvi. p. 95. 



