CYPR^A. 407 



Variety D. Shell pale reddish brown, with the base and mar- 

 gin white. 

 Cypraea Pulex. Solander's MSS. 



Junior. Cypraea carnea. Gmelin, p. 3418. Schreibers 

 Conch, p. 65. 



Cypraea, No. 103. Schroeter Einleitung, p. 158. 

 Knorr, vi. t. 15. f. 7. 



Inhabits the coasts of Jamaica and Barbadoes. Lister. 



Shell sometimes rather more than half an inch long, and about 

 half as broad, of a flesh-colour, generally with more or less 

 of a greyish tint, and most commonly marked with two or 

 three black spots on each side of the dorsal groove. The 

 shells above enumerated as Varieties differ so materially in 

 their forms, that when examined separately they appear to be 

 distinct species, but they all have the dorsal groove, and there 

 are so many intermediate gradations both as to colour, form, 

 size, and spots, that I am unable to find any distinctive speci- 

 fic characters. The transverse ribs are not perfectly formed 



- till after the shell has attained its full size, and Gmelin's C. 

 carnea appears to be nothing more than the present species 

 in this immature state. Linnaeus considered all the Cypraea? 

 with transverse elevated ribs to belong to the same species, 

 and they together constitute his C. Pediculus. 



europea. 63. Shell ovate, transversely ribbed, 

 without any groove, or more than three spots 

 on the back. 



Cypraea Europea. Montagu Test. Supplement, p. 88. 

 Cypraea Pediculus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 1180. Pennant 

 Zool iv. p. 1 15. t. 70. f. 82. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 

 32. t. 2. f. 6. Donovan, ii. t. 43. Montagu Test. p. 

 200. Maton and Racket hi Lin Trans, viii. p. 120. 

 Cypraea coccinella. Lamarck Ann. du Mus. xvi. p. 104. 

 Cypraea Arctica. Solanders MSS. 

 Variety. Shell without any dorsal spots. 

 Cypraea Arctica. Montagu Test. p. 20 J. 

 Lister Anim. Ang. t. 3. f. 17, and Conch, t. 707- f. 57. 

 Martini, t. 29- f. 309. Enc. Meth. t. 356. f. 1 b. 

 Junior. Cypraea bullata. Montagu Test. p. 202. t. 6. f. 1. 

 Maton and Racket in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 121. 

 Bulla diaphana. Montagu Test. p. 225. t. 7- f. 8. Maton 

 and Racket in Lin Trans, viii. p. 126. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Britain, and other parts of the North of 



Europe. 

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



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