Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Ci/prmidce. 373 



Inhabits Atlantic Ocean. Lisbon, Lamarck. Mus. Brit. 

 J. Sowerby, Nost. 



Shell oblong ovate, white, ornamented with three or four inter- 

 rupted chesnut-brown bands, with irregular edges, which give out 

 many thin zigzag lines, bent towards the outer lip ; base white, 

 spotted with brown, rather convex, slightly margined on the edge 

 of the outer side, with generally a dark spot on the upper part 

 of each extremity of the mouth ; aperture scarcely dilated in 

 front; teeth of the inner lip small, except in front, where there 

 are three large ; those of the outer lip distinct and blunt : colu- 

 mella smooth; spire concave, or umbilicated, rarely covered overj 

 inside brownish-white ; axis |§, diameter -j^ of an inch. 



35. Cyproea ziczag. — The Zigzag Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata, umbilicata, cinereo-albida, pallide, sub- 

 fasciat^, lineis flavescentibus transversim undulatis picta ; extre- 

 mitatibus fusco-punctato-fasciatis ; basi lateribusque luteis, fusco- 

 punctatis. 



Cypra;a ziczag. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1177, Schroeter Ein. j. 116. 

 Gmelin 3410. Schrieber^s Conch, j. 67. Lamarck. Hist. vii. 

 394. Billwyn, B. S. 454. 



Cypraea undata. Lamarck Ann- Mus. xvi. 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 66. f. 5! Petiver^s Gaz. t. 12, f. 7. 

 Jrgen-oille t. 18. f. R. Martini t. 23. f. 224, 225. Encyc. 

 Method, t. 356. f. 8. a. b. ! 



2. Incompleta ? Testa luteo-fusco maculis albidis sagittatis 

 fasciati. 



Inhabits East Indian Seas. Humphreys. Mas. Brit. ^. 

 Sowerby, Nost. 2. Mus. Mawe. 



Shell oblong-ovatc, greyish-white, ornamented with three ob- 

 scure yellowish bands, sometimes very much interrupted, thj space 

 between the bands marked with waved yellowish lines of various 

 breadths ; close to each end of the last whorle there is a row of 

 small brown spots ; the base yellowish, spotted with brown, rather 

 convex ; the edge slightly thickened and margined, especially on 

 the outer side, and often ornamented with two small brown spots 

 on the upper part of each extremity of the mouth ; aperture uar- 



