Mi\ Gray's Monograph on the Cyprmidce. 373 



Inhabits Atlantic Ocean. Lisbon, Lamarck. Mus. Brit. 

 J. Sowerby, Nost. 



Shell oblong ovate, white, ornamented with three or four inter- 

 rupted chesnut-brown bands, with irregular edges, which give out 

 many thin zigzag lines, bent towards the outer lip ; base white, 

 spotted with brown, rather convex, slightly margined on the edge 

 of the outer side, with generally a dark spot on the upper part 

 of each extremity of the mouth ; aperture scarcely dilated in 

 front; teeth of the inner lip small, except in front, where there 

 are three large ; those of the outer lip distinct and blunt : colu- 

 mella smooth; spire concave, or umbilicated, rarely covered over; 

 inside brownish-white ; axis \%, diameter -^ of an inch. 



35. Cyprcea ziczag. — The Zigzag Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata, umbilicata, cinereo-albida, pallide, sub- 

 fascial, lineis flavescentibus transversim undulatis picta ; extre- 

 mitatibus fusco-punctato-fasciatis ; basi lateribusque luteis, fuspo- 

 punctatis. 



Cypraea ziczag. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1177. Schroeter Ein. j. 116. 

 Gmelin 3410. Schrieber's Conch, j. 67. Lamarck. Hist. vii. 

 394. Dillwyn, B. S. 454. 



Cypraea undata. Lamarck Ann. Mus. xvi. 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 66. f. 5! Petiver's Gaz. 1. 12, f. 7. 

 Jrgenville t. 18. f. R. Martini t. 23. f. 224, 225. Encyc. 

 Method, t. 356. f. 8. a. b. ! 



2. Incompleta ? Testa luteo-fusco maculis albidis sagittatis 

 fasciata. 



Inhabits East Indian Seas. Humphreys. Mus. Brit. J. 

 Sowerby, Nost. 2. Mus. Mawe. 



Shell oblong-ovate, greyish-white, ornamented with three ob- 

 scure yellowish bands, sometimes very much interrupted, th a space 

 between the bands marked with waved yellowish lines of various 

 breadths ; close to each end of the last whorle there is a row of 

 small brown spots ; the base yellowish, spotted with brown, rather 

 convex ; the edge slightly thickened and margined, especially on 

 the outer side, and often ornamented with two small brown spots 

 on the upper part of each extremity of the mouth ; aperture par- 



