330 Mr. Broderip’s Description of Cyprea Scottit. 
Arr. XLVI. Description of a new Cowry and other 
Testacea, brought to England by the Rev. Archdeacon Scott. 
By W. J. Broperip, Esq., F.RS., F.L.S., &c. V.P.G.S. | 
Cypr@a Scorriu.* 
C. testa ovato-oblonga, subpyriformi, gibba, pallidé ferruginea maculis 
atro-ferrugineis, subtus planulata, fusco-nigricante, intus albida; 
aperture albentis latere sinistro ut plurimum edentulo, antic crenato. 
Mus. Geol. Soc. 
Habitat in freto Sunde juxta Angiam Jave. 
Obs. testa junior albida fusco longitudinaliter strigata, strigis transver- 
sim subinterruptis. 
Long. poll. 33, Lat. 14. 
Shell ovate-oblong, inclining to pear-shaped, gibbous, pale ferrugi- 
nous with blackish spots, rather flattened beneath, where it is of a rich 
dark brown or purple-black. The interior is white and so is the aperture, 
the right side of which is closely but not very deeply toothed, while 
the left is toothless for the greatest part of its length, shewing only a few 
denticules or crenations at its anterior extremity. The posterior notch 
is wide, deep, and reflected, and the lips of its edges are very prominent. 
The Rev. Archdeacon Scott, whose name this species bears, found two 
individuals on the shore near Angia in the Island of Java, and liberally 
presented them, together with the rest of his collection to the Geological 
Society of London. The backs of these shells are so much eroded by 
the action of the atmosphere and of sea-water that only traces of the 
colour remain ; but the under part is in a fair state of preservation and 
the smooth margin of the left side of the aperture is very distinct in both. 
They are adults, and one of them is apparently of advanced age; and, 
notwithstanding their blemished state, the characters still remaining are 
sufficient to mark specific difference. 
Just as this description was going to press, Mr. Turner brought me 
another of these shells in better condition than those belonging to the 
Geological Society, and confirming the characters above given; but the 
outer or enamelled surface is rubbed through, and the interior layer of 
* Cyprea Friendii, Gray, Zool. Miscell. named and published by that author 
after he knew that the shell was here named, described, figured, and ready for 
publication,—Ed. 
