Mr. (jt ray's Monograph on the Cyprceidce. 389 



numerous brown specks, and larger spots of the same colour, 

 shewing obscurely the four interrupted bands of the under coat ; 

 the spire convex, covered ; the base convex, purplish white, with 

 a few scattered small round blackish spots ; the margin livid pur- 

 ple with numerous small round black spots, thickened, rounded, 

 and slightly extended at the extremities ; which have a large 

 blackish spot on the upper part of each of them ; mouth rather 

 large, orange coloured : teeth whitish, those of the inner lip large, 

 blunt, distant, all of nearly an equal size ; columella rather concave ; 

 its whole length, especially in front, smooth ; the teeth of the 

 outer lip large, rather closer than those of the inner, pale ; inside 

 purple ; axis J.i, diameter T 8 ^ of an inch. 



When the outer coat of this most distinct species is worn off, 

 the shell is whitish blue, with four bands ; the first which is near 

 the spire, is formed of oblique transverse bands ; the second is 

 narrow and articulated, and the two next broader, formed of 

 arrow-shaped spots ; the base is nearly of the same colour as in 

 the perfect shell. 



Not being aware when I named the plate referred to above, 

 that the shell there figured was the full grown of C. zonula of 

 Chemnitz, I called it C. maculata, 



54. Cyprwa picta. — The painted Cowry. 



Testa ovato-oblonga, subumbilicata, albida, obscure trifaseiata, 

 punctis maculisque fuscis nebulata ; basi albido-puipurea ; mar- 

 ginibus livido-purpureis, nigro maculatis ; apertura albida ; labii 

 dentibus minutis, inaaqualibus ; columella laevi. 



Icon. Zool. Journal, lab. 7, f. 10. 



2. Decorticuta. Testa albido-purpurea, fulvo trifaseiata ; mar- 

 ginibus luridis, nigro maculatis. 



Inhabits African sea. Mus. Nost. J. Sowerby. 



Shell ovate oblong, whitish, with three obscure brown bands, 

 and the back ornamented with numerous pale, bright brown, 

 specks, and scattered large spots; the spire concave, covered; the 

 base rather convex, purplish white ; the margin livid purple, 

 ornamented with a few scattered large round purple brown spots, 

 thickened, rounded, slightly extended at the extremities, which 



