134 EOCENE MOLLUSCA. 
Among the fossil Cypreeze found in the Paris basin, is one belonging to the present 
section, which Lamarck considered to be identical with the recent Cyp. pediculus, but 
which, M. Deshayes, in his ‘ Description des coquilles fossiles,’ &c., has shown to be 
distinct, and has named C. Lamarchii.. Mr. Webster (/oc. cit.) has recorded a fossil 
cowry as occurring at Highgate, and at Stubbington, which he also refers to C. pediculus. 
i have not met with any Cyprza belonging to this section, either from Stubbington or 
Bracklesham Bay ; but it is not improbable that the Highgate specimen mentioned by 
Mr. Webster belonged to the present species, which, however, is more globose than 
C. Lamarckii, with a wider aperture, and more numerous transverse lines. 
Size.—Axis, rather more than 3-10ths of an inch; diameter, 3-10ths of an inch. 
Localities.—W hetstone, near Barnet; Primrose-hill. 
No. 78. Cypra#a Prestwicuul. F. £. Edwards. Tab. XVII, fig. 2a—e. 
C. testa parva, ovato-oblongd, ventricosd, antice attenuatd, canaliculatd, viv emarginatd, 
transversim lineata ; lineis numerosis, tenuibus, irregularipus, sulco dorsali, sub-mediano, 
obscuro, interruptis ; aperturd angustd, lineari ; labro involuto. 
Shell small, ovately oblong, ventricose, attenuated towards the anterior extremity, 
with a short canal, slightly notched in front, and covered with transverse ridges, 
interrupted on the back by an obscure, nearly medial sulcus; ridges slender, sharp- 
edged, numerous (18 to 20), irregular ; aperture linear, narrow ; outer lip incurved. 
This Cyprzea is not so pyriform as C. platystoma ; the apex is not so elevated, the 
transverse ridges are less regular and not so numerous, particularly over the outer lip ; 
and the aperture is linear without any posterior curve. The more globose form, the 
elongated aperture, and the posterior canal of C. WVetherell, distinguish it from that 
species. 
I am indebted for this cowry to Mr. Prestwich, to whom I have dedicated it. 
Stze.—Axis, rather more than + of an inch; diameter, 2-10ths of an inch. 
Locality.—Basingstoke. 
Genus 2Ist. OvuLA. Bruguiere. 1792. 
AMPHIPERAS, Gronovius, 1781. 
Lictum, Humphrey, 1797. 
Cypuoma, Bolten, 1798. 
OvuLa, Lamarck ; Cuvier; Ferrussac; Deshayes; G. B. Sowerby; Se. 
Ovutus, Montf., 1810. 
Catpurnus, Montf., 1810. 
Uttimus, Montf., 1810. 
