Mr. Gray's Monograph an the Cvprceidoe. 383 



Cypraea cribraria. Lin, Sys. Nat. 1176! Born. Mus. 186. 

 Schroet. Eint. j. 119. Gmelin 1434. Schreiber^s Conch, j. 74. 

 Lamarck Ann. Mus. xvi. 94. Hist. vii. 391. Dillwyn R. S. 458. 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 693. f. 42 ! Petiver's Gaz. i. S. f. 3. 

 Argenville t. 18. f. k. Regenfuss j. t. 12. f. 74. Favanne t. 29, 

 f. 13. 14. Martini 1. 1. 31. 336. Encijc. Method. 355. f. 5. 



Inhabits China. Humphreys. 



Shell oblong ovate, white, or yellowish-white, covered with a 

 pale fulvous brown coat perforated with numerous large, nearly 

 equal, round holes, which show the white ground colour of the 

 shell, and leave a straight lateral dorsal line ; spire small, concave, 

 covered ; base rather convex, white ; edge sharply margined on 

 the outer side and the extremities ; the outer lip mostly ornamented 

 with a few small yellow spots on the upper part; aperture rather 

 large ; teeth of the inner lip rather distant, small, narrow, except 

 the tvio or three anterior ones, which are rather distant ; those of 

 the outer lip large, blunt, distant, slightly extended over the shelv- 

 ing outer lip ; columella scarcely concave, plaited ; inside white. 

 Axis ii, diameter 3?^ of an inch. 



This shell varies greatly in the colour of the outer coat from yel- 

 low to reddish-brown ; and also in size. 



47. Cyprceafimbriata. — The fringed Cowry. 



Test^ oblongo-ovati albido-cserulescente ; fasciis quinque ob- 

 scuris fuscis interruptis ornata ; basi alba planulata ; labro submar- 

 ginato, minute punctate; extremitatibus violaceo bimaculatis. 



Cypraea n. 14. Sdiroeter. Einl. j. 237. 



Cypraea fimbriata. Gmelin 3423? Schrciber's Conch, t. 79. 

 DillKijn R, S. 465. 



" Cypraea tenella. Solander^s Mss.'^ Dillwyn. 



Icon. Martini j. 26. f. 263! 



Inhabits. Mus. Nost. 



Shell oblong ovate, blueish-vvhile, with five obscure, pale, nar- 

 row, yellowish interrupted bands, four of which are arranged in 

 pairs ,■ spire flat, covered ; base white, rather flat ; edge roundly- 

 margined on the outer side and extremities, M'hich have each two 

 violet spots ; aperture rather wide and concave in front, wiiite,- 



