Monograph on the Ci/prceidce, hy Mr. Gray. 147 



18. Cyprcea Carneola. 



Testa oblongo-elliptica, pallide fusca, fasciis quatuor iacarnatis 

 ornata ; basi subcylindrica ; lateribus subincrassatis, arenoso-cine- 

 reis, apertura dentibusque violaceis. 



Cypraea Carneola, Lin. Syst. Nat. 1174! Martini j. 366. 

 Schroeter Einl.'yiQO. Born. Mus. 176. Gmelin 3400. Schreiber's 

 Conch. 56. Lamarck Ann. Mus. xv. 454. Hist. 384. Dillwyn 

 R. S. 442. 



CyprJEa crassa, Gmelin 3421 (?) 



Icon. Lister Conch, i. 664. f. 8 ! (2) Rumphius 38. f. K. 

 Petiver Gaz t. 80. f. 8. Gualtier t. 30. f. H. Jrgenville t. 18. 

 f.O. Knorr \i. t. 17. f. 4. Favanne t. 29. f.b. 5. Martini 1. t. 28. 

 f. 287. 288 ! Born. Mus. t. 8. f. 2. 



2. Incompleta. Testa sub marginata, Lister Conch t. 665. f. 9. 



Inhab. East Indian Ocean, Humphreys ? Amboyna, Rumphius? 

 Asia, Linneus. Madagascar, iw/er. Mus. Brit. Sowerb. Nost. 



Shell, oblong elliptical, pale brown, with four broadish dark 

 flcsh coloured bands ; margin thickened, sub-angular, mottled, 

 sandy, grey; base pale, whitish,- brown, sub-cylindrical, shelving 

 outwards ; aperture rather Avide, scarcely wider in front ; teeth 

 blunt, violet; columella plaited, front rather concave ; spire hid; 

 inside white; axis 2 inches, diameter 1 | of an inch. 



It varies greatly in size but keeps pretty constant to shape. 



Dilhvyn has considered C. sordida of Lamarck as a variety of 

 this instead of as the type of C. cinerea. 



1 9. Cyprwa urcnosu. 



Testa ovalo-ovata, sub-ventricosa, pallide fusca, quadrifasciati ; 

 basi convexii ; marginibus incrassatis, angulatis, supra arcnoso-ci- 

 nereis, apertura dentibusque minutis, albis. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Sowerb. 



Shell ovate, rather depressed, pale, whitish brown, with four 

 rather broad brown bands ; tiie margin tliickined, produced, an- 

 gular; Ijeneath convex, liglit brown ; above Hat, extending gready 

 over the back, pale grayish with sandy mottled lines ; base con- 

 vex, blielviiig towards the edge, and the aperture white ; aperture 

 rather narrow ; teeth small, white ; columella plaited, front deeply 



