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Cypkjeovula. Shell, when young, polished, inner lip simple, 

 outer lip involute, plaited, back costato-striate. 



Ovula. Shell, when young, striated, inner lip simple, smooth, 

 outer lip involute, back polished. 



CYPRvEA. 



Shell smooth, polished. . 

 *Columella front deeply concave. 



**Columella front nearly even. 

 ***Shell, edge above denticulated, columella front even. 

 ****Shell, back ribstriated or tubercled, columella front concave. 



*Cypr^:^: Vek.,93. Shell, when young, smooth, banded ; when per- 

 fect, polished, smooth, edge entire, columellar front deep, distinctly 

 concave, mostly plaited, aperture rather dilated, concave. 



Cyprcea Princeps. Testa orbiculato-ovata, gibba, albida, dorso 

 lineolisfuscis ornato, linea dorsali centrali, simplici,basiplanulato, 

 lateribus rotundatis, gibbis, pallide incarnatis, fusco-maculatis, 

 extremitatibus concentrice fusco-lineatis. 



Persian Gulph. Mus. SowQrby. 



Shell orbicular, ovate, gibbous, white, back ornamented with 

 variously curved, brown lines ; on the upper part of the sides 

 near the centre, are two somewhat square brown blotches, the 

 dorsal line is nearly central, straight ; sides rounded, gibbous, pale 

 flesh colour, with various sized brown spots, the extremities mar- 

 gined, rather produced, with several concentric brown lines, base 

 white, rounded, slightly shelving towards the mouth. Teeth 

 of the inner lip small, close ; columellar front deep ; plaits, of the 

 outer lip rather larger, more distant ; whorls partly visible, conical, 

 convex ; inside white, — axis 4, diameter 3 inches. 



1 have only seen one specimen of this beautiful shell, which is 

 called by Humphrey the Brindled Cowry from the Persian Gulph. 



It appears intermediate between the Maps and the Tigers. 



Cyprwa Mappa. 



Testa ovato-elliptica, albida vel flavescens, lineolis fulvis, guttis- 

 que albidis sparsis ornata ; linea dorsali ramosa, ; basi plana ; mar- 

 ginibus rotundatis incrassatis, guttatis ; dentibus luteis. 



n. — Testa flavescente, lineolis fulvis ornata, Knea dorsali an r 

 gusta lateral^ lateribus bruuneo-subguttatis. 



