DESCRIPTION. 151 



PLATE XIV. 



Fig. 1. Cyprtea Aralica, 

 Shell subturbinate^ marked with Oriental cha- 

 racters ; longitudinal stripe simple. 

 Lister Condi, tab. 659. 



Specimen above bliieish-white spots, between 

 them tawny ; confluent brown and purple spots on 

 the thickened sides, within pale violet, lips some- 

 what rounded ; teeth brown. 



This second variety of the C. Arahica is so very 

 different from the first, that it might without im- 

 propriety constitute a separate species. The form 

 of the first is longer and narrower, more length- 

 ened at the base, depressed and not elevated upon 

 the back, lips perfectly flat, or slightly concave and 

 immaculate, with pale chesnut teeth ; in the se- 

 cond the lips are rather convex, and on the colu- 

 mella there is a large brown, tawny, or cinereous 

 spot; teeth dark brown. The characteristic mark- 

 ing is much more distinct in the former than the 

 latter, and less interrupted by reticulated lines, 

 Inhabits India. 



