CYPR^A. 471 



Inhabits the coasts of Amboyna. Rumphius. Asia. Linnaus. 



Shell eight lines long, and two thirds as broad, of a more or 

 less dull yellow colour, with obsolete small ferruginous scat- 

 tered dots ; the extremities are strongly beaked, but the mar- 

 gin is only very slightly thickened on the sides. C. ovulata, 

 Enc. Meth. t. 355. f. 2. which in Lamarck's arrangement 

 follows this species, has every appearance of being a young 

 shell. 



