502 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Ci/prceidcc. 



Cypraea spurca. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1X79} Gmelin, 2416. Dill- 

 Ki/n, R. S. 462, not Born. 



Cypraea n. 37. Schroder, EM. j. 144. 



Cypraea acicularis. Gmelin, 3421. (1). Schreiber's Conch. 

 t. 79. 



Cypraea flaveola. Lamarck^ Jnn. Mus. xvi, 97. (1.), Hist. 

 Tfij. 394. 



Icon. Martini, j. t. 31. f. 335. (1 .) Ency. Method, 356. f. 14. 



1. Junior. Testa ovata, purpurascens. 



Bulla Cypraea. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1185. not Dillwyn, Sfc. • 



2. Incompleta. Testa subglobosa albida, tlavido-punctata. 

 Cypraea squalida. Gmelin, 3420. (3.) 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 686. f. 33. (3.) 



3. Decoriica. Testa pallide violaceaj albido-marginata. 

 /3. Elliptica. Testa ovato-elliptica. 



Inhabits Mediterranean Sea, Linnwus. Must. Brit. Nost. 2. 

 Mus. Edwards. 



Shell ovate, white ; back ornamented with yellowish fulvous 

 spots, which are often surrounded with a whitish circle ; the 

 margin thickened on both sides, especially a little behind the 

 centre of the shell ; the upper part denticulated all round ; the 

 pits brown ; the base convex, white, sometimes with a few scat- 

 tered brown spots near the edge, especially on the columella side ; 

 aperture rather wide ; teeth nearly similar, large, distinct, with 

 the grooves slightly produced towards the edge ; columella front 

 very slightly concave, smoothish ; inside violet purple. Axis 

 ■i§, diameter -^ of an inch. Var. fi. Axis i^, diameter -j^ of an 

 inch. 



Obs. This shell diflfers considerably from C. flaveola of 

 Linnaeus, with which Lamarck has confounded it. It varies con- 

 siderably in shape from oblong-elliptical, to subglobose, before the 

 thickening of the margin is complete. Gmelin has confounded a 

 young ventricose specimen with his C. squalida, which is young 

 C. Lynx. 



72. Cyprwa flaveola. — The yellowish Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata, lutco-fusca, punctis ocellisquc ulbldis 



