Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cj/prceidce. 493 



2 Incomplcta. Testa ovato-oblonga, albida, obscure trifasciata ; 

 spira plana ; subtus sulcata. 



3. Decorticata. Testa caerulea, margiiiibus albis. 



Icon. Martini y t. 31. f. 339. 



Inhabits Mediterranean, Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Indian Seas. 

 Gmelin. Mus. Brit. Nost. 



Shell ovate, white, or whitish yellow ; the back ovate, sur- 

 rounded by a yellow ring close to the edge of the margin ; spire 

 flat, covered ; the margin thickened and extended, but rounded 

 at the edges, and produced at the upper part into four tubercles, 

 which are nearly as high as the centre of the back, giving the shell 

 the appearance of a trussed fowl, which it is often called ; the base 

 white, flattish, with seven or eight tubercles on the side of the 

 mouth ; mouth rather wide ; teeth rather large, and close, nearly 

 equal on both lips ; columella flat, even ; inside white, with 

 three purple bands. Axis -~, diameter ^ of an inch. 



When this common shell is young, it is oblong-ovatc, with a 

 flat spire ; white, with three obscure purplish bands, and the base 

 is flat, and the teeth are extended rib-like over the lips. 



It is distinguished from the next two by the tubercles en the 

 margin and base. 



61. Cyprwa obveluta, — The Thick-Cloathed Cowry. 



Testa ovata sub depressa, dorso ca^rulescente, linea flavi\ circum- 

 dato ; marginibus incrassatis, albido-cinereis, lajvisslniis, tumidis, 

 dorso elevatioribus; subtus convexiusculis subsulcatis. 



Cypraia obvelata. Lamarck. Ann. Mus. xvi. 102. ! Hist. vii. 

 401. 



Cypra-a moneta. Var. Dilhoyn JR. S. 459. 



Icon, iliarf we j. t. 24. f. 239,240? Zool. Journ. i. 



2. Incomplcta. Testa dorso ca;rulcscente, marginibus palii- 

 dc carneis, incrassatis, depressis. 



(i. yUellus. Testa lutea polita, marginibus sub-dcprcssis. 



Inhahils Sea of New Holland. Lamarck. Mus. J. Sowerby. 

 2. Mus. Dom.M. J. Maugcr. /3. Mus. Dom. 3/ru;c'. 



Shell ovate, ratiier flepresscd ; tlie back blueish white, lanceo- 

 late, surrounded by u rathir broad, yellow line, placed close to tno 



Vor.. I. 2 1. 



