146 Monograph on the Ci/prceidce, by Mr. Gray. 



convexa; marginibus incrassatis rotundatis, pallide cinereis, punc- 

 tulis nigris notatis ; apertura sub cinerea, dentibus albis. 



Cypraea cinerea. Gmelin 3402! Schreiber's Conch, j. 58. 

 Lamarck Ann. Mus. xvi. 90 ! Hist. vii. 386. Dillwyn JR. S. 

 451! 



Cypraea cincta. Solander's Mss. 



Cypraea n. 6. Schroeter Einl.j. 134. 



Porcellana trifasciata. Mus. Gevers. 402. 



Cypraea sordida. Lamar k Ann. Mus. xvi. 91 ! Hist. vii. 

 387. 



Cypraea VanelH Junior. Dillwyn R. S. 443 ! 



Icon. Lister Conch. 667. f. 11 ! 668. f. 13. a. b. ? 670. f. 16 ! 

 Gualtier t. 16. f. 16. H. M. Martini t. 25. f. 254. 255 ! too blue. 



Q.fulva. Testa pallide fulva; marginibus albis. 



y. decorticata. Testa pallide rufofusca obscure trifaciata ; basi 

 marginibusque albis. 



Inhabits the West Indian Ocean, Barbadoes, Jamaica, Lister. 

 Mus. Brit. J. Sowerb. Nost. 



Shell ovate, or ovate elliptical, -grayish, with three obscure broad 

 darker bands ; the margin thickened, rounded, pale brownish 

 grey, ornamented with scattered irregular very small black specks ; 

 base white, convex ; aperture rather narrow, reddish gray, espe- 

 cially in the centre of the inner lip; teeth small, distant, blunt, 

 white; columella smooth, front concave, innermost part slightly 

 denticulated ; spire small, convex, mostly covered ; inside white : 

 axis -J-l, diameter ~ of an inch. 



Varies very much ; lstly, in shape, being ovate, ventricose, or 

 ovate elliptical, and even subcylinchical. 2ndly, in colour, being 

 pale grayish, fulvous, or brown, but always pale ; where worn pale 

 reddish brown, dull ; and 3rdly, in size, from f to 2 inches long. 



I have a half fossilized specimen of this species, which is white, 

 semi-pellucid ; dug out 40 feet below the surface on the coast 

 of (Honduras?) fiom amongst Tupha, given me by Mr. G. B. 

 Sowerby. 



This species has been very much confused. Lamarck formed 

 two from it, and Dillwyn bad it twice over with the same synoni- 

 ma, and again as a variety of C. Carneola. 



