380 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cyprceidce. 



distinct, brown, extending like ribs nearly to the margin of the 

 outer halfway over the inner lip : front part of the columella ra- 

 ther concave, plaited. Axis iA, diameter A.. 



This very beautiful Cypraea I have only observed in the posses- 

 sion of Mrs. Mawe, to whose liberality I am indebted for permis- 

 sion to take the above description. 



Mr. Swainson having described this species a few months before 

 the publication of the species which I have called C. pulchella, it 

 is necessary that the name of the latter species should be changed. 

 I propose therefore, to call it in future Cyprwa Pulchra, the Beau- 

 tiful Cowry. 



43. Cyprcea punctata. — The Dotted Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata,umbilicata, albido-carnea, maculis inaequa- 

 Jibus fulvo-fuscis sparsis ; basi albida, fusco-lineata, semi-sulcata. 



Cypraea punctata. Lin. Mantiss 548. Gmelin 3414. Solan- 

 tier's Mss. Dillvcyn R. S. 458. 



Cypraea antomaria. Gmelin. 3412. Schreiber's Conch. 59. 



Cypraea n, 25. Schroeter Einl. j. 140. 



Cypraea Stercus Muscarum. Lamarck An. Mus. xvi. 98. Hist, 

 396. 



Icon. Martini, j, t. 28. f. 290, 291 1 Encyc. Method, t. 355 r 

 f.10. 



/3. Decolorata. Basi dentibusque albis. 



y. Maculata. Extremitatibus nigris f uscis maculatis. 



Inhabits. Mus. Brit. 



Shell oblong ovate, white, with a tinge of flesh colour, sprin-* 

 kled with irregular roundish bright fulvous brown spots, which are 

 smaller towards the sides; spire concave, covered, white with a 

 brown spot at the base ; the base scarcely thickened, whitish 

 lined with brown ; aperture narrow ; teeth minute, extended rib- 

 like over the base, nearly to the margin, edged with brown ; colu- 

 mella front rather concave, plaited, outer lip slightly shelving in T 

 wards in front. Axis ^, diameter -^ of an inch. 



The teeth and base are sometimes white ; and also the hinder 

 extremity just over the spire is sometimes convex, with two large 

 spots. 



