CYPRAA. 197 
C. pediculus of Lamarck (Argeny.— Lister, Conch.—Gualt. 
15, P.—Martini, f. 310, 311.) 
C. Europea of Montagu (Gualt. 15, R.—Lister, Angl.—Mar- 
tini, f. 8309—Ginanni and Barrelier, probably, but badly done). 
Adanson’s figure looks so like the latter, that one would na- 
turally refer it there, but it was probably designed for Napo- 
lina, a very closely allied Senegal shell, which of late has been 
separated from it. 
Both the West Indian (Reeve, Conch. Ic. vol. ui. Cyp. f. 138) 
and the European (Donov. Brit. Shells, pl. 43) forms are pre- 
served in the Linnean cabinet. 
Had not the C. sulcata of Dillwyn included several other dis- 
tinct species (carnea, pulex, oryza) one might have preferred 
bestowing that appellation upon the former variety, since, 
assuredly, two most essentially different Cowries have been 
irremediably confused by Linneus. Since, however, that 
form (“Indica”) takes precedence of the rest in the specifica- 
tion of both varieties and localities, it is perhaps expedient to 
follow Reeve in ascribing the name pediculus to it, rather than 
fabricate a new appellation for that abundant shell. It must 
be remembered, however, that the characteristic spots are not 
particularised in the ‘Museum Ulrice, where the expression 
“ssepe,” in allusion to the dorsal furrow, and the choice of 
synonyms (Rump.—Gualt. 14, f. P-—Arg.) insinuate a like con- 
fusion of species. 
Cvprxa wucleus, 
The name that follows the reference to Rumphius corrects 
the misprint of 36, in the twelfth edition, in place of 39, as it 
previously stood in the earlier edition of the same work, and in 
the ‘Museum Ulrice.’ “ Lister, c. 8, t. 2, f. 3,” means, as we 
learn from the substitution of “610, f. 61” in the revised copy, 
the second page of engravings, in plate 3, of the eighth chapter : 
the figure referred to, however, is C. Madagascariensis, an 
allied shell which suits not the “subrostrata” of the descrip- 
tion: t. 2 would be annulus, which exhibits not the slightest 
specific affinity to this shell. The rest of the synonymy, 
