190 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
Cvyprvxea stesae. 
In the proposed new edition of his ‘Systema,’ the illustrious 
Swede has inserted the following addition to his published de- 
scription ‘Supra flavicans, fasciis albis luteo undulatis.” The 
C. undata of Lamarck has been confused by some writers with 
this very different Cowry, probably on account of the expression 
“‘ovi passerini magnitudine” (rather an uncertain standard, 
being applied alike to annulus and asellus), the size of the 
irrecognisable. figure in Bonanni, and the markings upon the 
shells delineated by Seba; the latter, however, are represented 
as not larger than ziczac proper, and, moreover, do not form part 
of the original synonymy. Whether Linneeus regarded that 
shell as a variety may be uncertain (both species are preserved 
in his collection) ; but the “‘ subtus lutea, punctis fuscis” of the 
‘Systema,’ and the “Noscitur basi lutea punctis nigris mini- 
mis” of the ‘ Museum Ulrice,’ clearly evidence that the Cowry 
(Sow. Conch. Ll. Cyp. f. 133) sonamed by Lamarck and Reeve 
was the typical and original ziczac. Had Linneus designed 
undata, he would scarcely have passed over its representation 
(Arg. pl. 21, N) in awork so habitually, if not invariably, re- 
ferred to by him as Argenville’s ‘ Conchyliologie.’ In his re- 
vised copy he has substituted 661 (which exhibits the species) 
for his former circuitous, though necessary, method of referring 
to the earlier edition of Lister. ‘The cited figure of Petiver, 
likewise, has been generally quoted for this shell: it is not, 
however, a very accurate delineation. 
Cyprxa Hivundo. 
As Petiver’s figure is by no means a very characteristic one, 
and the obscure bandlike painting is not indicated among the 
details of the ‘Museum Ulrice,’ the additional synonym of 
“Mart. Syst. t. 28, f, 282” in the revised ‘Systema,’ and the 
fact that the Cyprea hirundo of authors (Reeve, Conch. Icon. 
Cyp. f. 104) is present in the Linnean cabinet, where it solely 
answers to the definition of the species, are not without value 
