CYPRADA. 185 
synonym of Petiver (his “small yellow speckled Barbadoes 
Cowry”’) reminds one somewhat of the shell, but has not been 
usually quoted for it. 
Cvprxa lota, 
Our author did not originally possess this shell, which, judg- 
ing from its position between Vanelli and fragilis, as well as 
from the language of the ‘Museum Ulrice,’ was an immature 
Cowry. The account in the ‘Systema’ is utterly inadequate 
for the purposes of definition; even the description in the 
‘Museum,’ although much more detailed, has not enabled natu- 
ralists, in the absence of an illustrative figure, to pronounce 
with any confident certainty upon the species. There is a 
Cyprea in the Linnean cabinet which is marked with the nu- 
merals indicative of the species (337); it possesses the very 
few characters mentioned in the ‘ Systema,’ and answers fairly 
enough to the description in the ‘Museum Ulrice :’ the speci- 
men, however, in the Dronningen Museum must be regarded as 
the original type. What it may prove I know not: that in the 
cabinet of Linneus seems merely a young spurca. 
Cvyprxa fragtlis. 
Deshayes has justly observed that a careful perusal of the 
account of this shell in the ‘Museum Ulrice’ must lead to the 
conclusion that Linneus thereby intended an immature ex- 
ample of the Cyp. Arabica. 'The cited illustration in Gualtier 
depictures that Cowry, and an analytical examination of our 
author’s cabinet (its presence in which has been expressly re- 
corded) demonstrates, that of all his specimens that shell 
(Gualt. pl. 16, Q) alone fulfils the required conditions of the 
definition. 
