492 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the C^prceidce. 



Cypraea tabescens. jS. Dillzoi/n, R. S. 463. 



Icon. Lister Conch, t. 678, f. 25. Martini, j. t. 28. f. 296, 297. 



Inhabits, Indian Ocean, Madagascar. Lister. Amboyna, 

 Rumphius. Mus. Brit. Nost. 



Shell ovate oblong, white, with three obscure double bands ; 

 the back crowded with minute fulvous specks, and often oma- 

 niented with an irregular square brown spot in the centre ; the 

 spire concave, covered j the base convex, reddish ; the margin 

 thickened, gibbous, rounded, nodulose, reddish, spotted with larg- 

 ish round black spots; the mouth is wide, reddish orange j teeth 

 whitish, those of the inner lip are small, close, extended over the 

 lip, except those of the front part which are larger, and more dis- 

 tant ; the teeth of the outer lip large, rather distant, extended over 

 the lip nearly to the margin, forming prominent ribs ; the columella 

 flattish, plaited, especially in front ; inside purplish white. Axis 

 i^, diameter J^ of an inch. 



When this common but pretty shell is young, the margin is 

 scarcely thickened, and then it is C. draccena of Born, and from 

 its often having the square dorsal spot it is the C. stolida of 

 most authors, but not of Linnaeus. When it is worn the three 

 articulated double bands are most distinctly exhibited on a blue 

 ground. 



60. Cyprwa moneta. — The Money Cowry. 



Testa ovata, albido-lutescens, dorso linca flava circumdato, 

 marginibus incrassatis, supra tumidis, nodosis, subtus planulatis, 

 tuberculatis. 



Cypraea moneta. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1178. Martini j. 404. 

 Born. Mus. 187. Schroeter. Einl.^. 120. Gmclin 3414. Schrei- 

 ber^s Conch, j. 72. Lamarck Ann. Mus. xvi. 102, Hist. vii. 401. 

 Dillwyn R. S. 458. 



Icon. Bonanni Rec. & Kirch iii. f. 233. Lister. Conch, t. 

 709. f. 59! Rumphius Amb. t. 39. f. C. Petiver's Amb. t. 16. 

 f. 14, Gaz.t. 9768! Gaultier i. 14. f. 3, 4, 5. Argenville, t. 

 18. f. K. KnojT. iv. t. 14, f. 4. Favanne t. 29, f. G. Martini 

 j. t. 31, f. 337, 338, (and 339 cut open.) Born. Vign. 73. f. c. 

 Eticijc. Method, t. 356, f 3. 



