Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Ci/prmdce: 367 



evils, in order that greater ones may be avoided ; and who ba- 

 lances the various powers of all the orders of existence, and their 

 mutual operation, in such a manner as to produce the greatest 

 good. 



Art. XLV. Monograph on the Cj/prceidce^ a Famihj of 

 Testaceous Mollusca. By John Edward Gray, Esq 

 M.G.S. 



[Continued from page 152.] 



27. Cypraa Tigris. 



Testa ovali-ovata, ventricosa, postice sub-umbilicata rotun- 

 data, albido-ca^rulescente, guttis nigris, majusculis, numerosis, 

 sparsis; lineadorsaliferrugineaj basi alba, convexiuscula; lateribus 

 albidis nigro-guttatis. 



Cypra:a Tigris, Lin. Si/s. Nat. 1176. Martini i. 330. Bora, 

 Mus. 182. Schroder. Einl. \. 111. Gmelin 3408. Schreiber^s 

 Conch, i. 64. Lamarck, Ann. Mus. xv. 452. llist. vii. 382. 

 Dillrsyn R. S. 449. 



Cypra;a Pardalis, Shaz3 Nat. Misc. vi. t. 193. 



Icon. Bonanni Rec. Kirch, in. f. 231, 232. Lister Conch. 

 t. 682, f. 29 ! Rumph. t. 38. f. J. Pet. Amb. Gaz. t. 96, f. 7\ 

 GauUier, t. 14, f. G. L L. t. 16, f. S. Seba, iii. t. 76. f. 7, 9, 14. 

 Knorr. vi. t. 21. f. 4. Favanne t. 30, f. L. 2. Martini i. t. 24, 

 f. 232—234 ! Born. Mus. t. 8, f. 7. Encyc. Meth. t. 353, f. 3 ! 



^.Jlammea. Testa lutea, strigata. 



Cypraia flammea, Gmelin 3408. 



Cypraea, n. 32. Schroct. Einl. i. 148. 



Valentyn. Abhandlung, t. 4, f. 30. 



y. nigrescens. Testa nigrescente, obscure nigro maculate. INIus. 

 Dora. Kdwards. 



2. Junior. Testl ovati albida, maculata. 



Cypraea fa;mina. Martini i. 333. Gmelin 3409. Schrciber's 

 Conch, i. 65. 



