THE 



ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 



June, 1824. 



Art. XIX. Monograph on the Cyprceidce, a Family of 

 Testaceous Mollusca. By Mr. John Edwaed Gray. 



[Continued from page 80.] 



6. Cyprcea stercoraria ; var. Ratlus: its synonymes continued. 

 Icon. List. Conch. 680, f. 35 (3)! Gualtier t. 15, f. F. 

 Ency. Method. 351, f. 4! 



1. Junior. 



Cypraa fasciata. Chemnitz x. 100, Gmelin 3406. Schreiber's 

 Conch, t. 61. 



Cypraa gibba. Gmelin 3403. 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 663, f. 7. Chemnitz x, t. 144, f. 1334. 



2. Decorticata. 



Cyprasa cauteriata. Chemnitz x. 100, t. 144, f. 1332. 

 Cypraa, Chemnitzx. 100, t. 144, f. 1333. 



3. Distorta, lateribus tuberculatis. 

 Icon. Born. Mus. t. 8, f. 1. 



Inhabits West Indian Seas, African Ocean, and Jamaica; 

 Lamarck, Lister: Coast of Guinea, Schroeter. Mus. Brit. J. 

 Sowerb. Nost. 



Shell ovate, ventricose, rather gibbose, pale yellowish, spotted 

 and clouded with fulvous brown, and with a black brown spot at 

 the side of the spire, marked with a rather irregular pale dorsal line, 

 base flat, livid brown, sides thickened, rather produced at the ex- 

 tremities, especially the hinder ones, rather angular ; livid, spot- 

 ted with blackish brown j aperture dilated and concave iu front, 



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