516 Ml'. Gray's Monograph on the Cj/prceida;. 



tulis elevatis sparsis exasperatis, linea dorsali impressa ; basi con- 

 vexa, semisulcata ; extremitatibus rostratis ; sub-margiiiatis. 



Cypiaea cicercula. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1181. Marthii, j. 339. 

 Jiorn. Mus. 195. Shroet. EinLj. \3% GmeUn,34l9. Schrciber^s 

 Conch. 1. 77. Lamarck, Ann. Mtis. xvi. 99. Hist. vii. 397. 

 Dillayn, R. S. 470. 



Bonanni, Rec. 3. f. 243. and Kirch, f. 242. List. Conch. 

 t. 710. 660. Ruwph. t. 39. f.K. Pet. Amb. 16. f. 21. Mar- 

 tini, j. t. 24. f. 243. 244, Born, Mus. t. 8. f. 19. Encij. Method. 

 t. 36.f. 1. 



? p. Timorensis. " Testa laeviuscula, postice non rostrata, lac- 

 tea." Lamarck. 



Cypraea cicercula. b. Lamarck. Ann, Mus. xix 99. Hist. vii. 

 397. 



Inhabits Mediterranean, Linnceus. Amboyna, Rumphius. 

 China, Humphreys. /3. Timor, Lamarck. Mus. Brit. Nost. 



Shell ovate, globose, turgid, yellowish white, marbled, and ir- 

 regularly spotted with fulvous, and roughened with many small 

 elevated scattered pustules ; the dorsal line impressed, leav- 

 ing a deep groove over each extremity, and a slight one in the 

 centre of the back; the extremities beaked aud slightly recurved, 

 and margined ; the base convex, and half ribbed-striated ; the 

 aperture narrow, linear; the columella plaited, very deep, slightly 

 concave iu front ; inside purple white. Axis j'^, diameter ^^ of 

 an inch. 



89. Cypraea Margarita. — The Pearl Cowry. 



Testa ovata-globosa, turgida, albida, polita, concentrice striata ; 

 basi convexa semi sulcata; extremilatibus rostratis. 



Cyprsea Margarita. Solandei's MSS. ? Dillvsyn, R. S. 474.? 



Rumphius, t. 39. f. N. Pet. Amb. t. 16. f. 23 ? Gualt, t. 14. 

 f. M. ? Martini, t. 24. f. 242. ? 



Inhabits Japan, Sloane. Mus. Brit. 



Shell globose, with a small produced and slightly recurved beak 

 at each end, white, polished, smooth, except towards the outer 

 edge, where it is finely and sharply concentrically striated ; base 

 slightly thickened, polished, scarcely extended to the sides; 



