502 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cyprceidce. 



Cypraea spurca. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1 1 79 ? Gmelin, 3416. Dill. 

 zcyn, R. S. 462, not Born. 



Cypraea n. 37. Schroeter, Einl. j. 144. 



Cypraea acicularis. Gmelin, 3421. (1). Schr eider's Conch. 

 t. 79. 



Cypraea flaveola. Lamarck, Ann. Mus. xvi. 97. (1.), Hist. 

 vij. 394. 



Icon. Martini, j. t. 31. f. 335. (1.) Ency. Method, 356. f. 14. 



1. Junior. Testa ovata, purpurascens. 



Bulla Cypraea. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1185. not Dillwyn, Sfc. 



2. Incompletes Testa subglobosa albida, ilavido-punctata. 

 Cypraea squalida. Gmelin, 3420. (3.) 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 686. f. 33. (3.) 



3. Decortica. Testa pallide violacea, albido-marginata. 

 (3. Elliptica. Testa ovato-elliptica. 



Inhabits Mediterranean Sea, Linnceus. Must. Brit. Nost. 2. 

 Mus. Edwards. 



Shell ovate, white; back ornamented with yellowish fulvous 

 spots, which are often surrounded with a whitish circle ; the 

 margin thickened on both sides, especially a little behind the 

 centre of the shell ; the upper part denticulated all round ; the 

 pits brown ; the base convex, white, sometimes with a few scat- 

 tered brown spots near the edge, especially on the columella side ; 

 aperture rather wide ; teeth nearly similar, large, distinct, with 

 the grooves slightly produced towards the edge ; columella front 

 very slightly concave, smoothish ; inside violet purple. Axis 

 ■|§, diameter T 7 ^ of an inch. Far. 0. Axis i£, diameter ^ of an 

 inch. 



Obs. This shell differs considerably from C. Jlaveola of 

 Linnajus, with which Lamarck has confounded it. It varies con- 

 siderably in shape from oblong-elliptical, to subglobose, before the 

 thickening of the margin is complete. Gmelin has confounded a 

 young ventricose specimen with his C. squalida, which is young 

 C. Lynx. 



72. Cyprwa Jlaveola. — The yellowish Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata, luteo-fusca, punctis ocellisque albidis 



