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18. Cyprcea Carneola. 



Testa oblongo-elliptica, pallide fusca, fasciis quatuor incarnatis 

 ornata; basi subcylindrica ; lateribus subincrassatis, arenoso-cine- 

 reis, apertura dentibusque violaceis. 



Cypraea Carneola, Lin. Syst. Nat. 1174! Martini j. 366. 

 Schroeter Einl.j, 100. Born. Mus. 176. Gmelin 3400. Schreiber's 

 Conch. 56. Lamarck Ann. Mus. xv. 454. Hist. 384. Dillwyn 

 R. S. 442. 



Cyprasa crassa, Gmelin 3421 (?) 



Icon. Lister Conch, t. 664. f. 8 ! (2) Rumphius 38. f. K. 

 Petiver Gaz t. 80. f. 8. Gualtier t. 30. f. H. Jrgenville t. 18. 

 f.O. Knorr vi. t. 17. f. 4. Favanne t. 29. f.b. 5. Martini 1. t.28. 

 f. 287. 288 ! Born. Mus. t. 8. f. 2. 



2. Incompleta. Testa sub marginata, Lister Conch t. 665. f. 9. 



Inhab. East Indian Ocean, Humphreys ? Amboyna, Rumphius? 

 Asia, Linneus. Madagascar, Lister. Mus. Brit. Sowerb. Nost. 



Shell, oblong elliptical, pale brown, with four broadish dark 

 flesh coloured bands ; margin thickened, sub-angular, mottled, 

 sandy, grey; base pale, whitish,- brown, sub-cylindrical, shelving- 

 outwards ; aperture rather wide, scarcely wider in front ; teeth 

 blunt, violet ; columella plaited, front rather concave ; spire hid; 

 inside white ; axis 2 inches, diameter 1 | of an inch. 



It varies greatly in size but keeps pretty constant to shape. 



Dillwyn has considered C. sordida of Lamarck as a variety of 

 this instead of as the type of C. cinerea. 



19. Cyprcea arenosa. 



Testa ovalo-ovata, sub-ventricosa, pallide fusca, quadrifasciata ; 

 basi convexa ; marginibus incrassatis, angulatis, supra arenoso-ci- 

 nereis, apertura dentibusque minutis, albis. 



Inhabits ? Mus. Sowerb. 



Shell ovate, rather depressed, pale, whitish brown, with four 

 rather broad brown bands ; the margin thickened, produced, an- 

 gular; beneath convex, light brown; above flat, extending greatly 

 over the back, pale grayish with sandy mottled lines ; base con- 

 vex, shelving towards the edge, and the aperture white ; aperture 

 rather narrow ; teeth small, white ; columella plaited, front deeply 



