GASTROPODA. 31 
(Krauss). Very common in the Red Sea and on many 
Indian and Indo-Pacific coasts. I have not met with it 
among South African shells. 
CyPR#A CAPENSIS, Gray, Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 320, fig. 
306.—Port Elizabeth. Confined to the South-African coast. 
CyPREA EDENTULA, Sowerby, Conch. Illustr. No. 102, 
fig. 26; Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 320, figs. 313, 314.—Port 
Elizabeth. Confined to the South African coast. 
CYPREA ALGOENSIS, Gray, Sowerby, Conch. Illust. 
No. 101, fig. 26; Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 320, figs. 311, 312. 
—This species is very rare in Algoa Bay. 
CyPR#A SIMILIS, Gray, Sowerby, Conch. Illust. No. 103, 
fig. 27; Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 320, figs. 300, 30]. Var. 
C. castanea (Higgins), Thes. Conch. vol. iy. pl. 320, figs. 
302, 303.—I have only seen one specimen in perfect con- 
dition of this species, but bleached ones turn up occasion- 
ally. I am convinced that C. castanea (Higgins) is the 
same species. 
CYPREA AMPHITHALES, Melvill, Mem. Manchester Lit. 
and Phil. Soc. 1888, Ser. 4, vol. i. p- 221; pl. 2, fig. 19.— 
Port Elizabeth (very rare). 
CYPRHA FUSCO-DENTATA, Gray, Sowerby, Conch. Illust. 
No. 103, fig. 27; Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 320, figs. 298, 299. 
—Worn specimens are not uncommon at Port Elizabeth, but 
the shell is seldom found perfect. 
CYPRHA CRUENTA, Gmelin, Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 314, 
fig. 385.=C. variolaria (Lamarck).—This species, common 
on the coast of Mauritius, and on various Indian and Indo- 
Pacific shores, has, as far as I know, only been found dead at 
Port Elizabeth. 
CYPRHA CAPUT-SERPENTIS, Linn., Thes. Conch. vol. iv. 
pl. 304, figs. 72, 73. This very common species is but rarely 
found on the South-African coast. 
CYPR#A FIMBRIATA, Gmelin, Thes. Conch. vol. iv. pl. 323, 
figs. 390, 291.—Natal coast (Krauss), Port Elizabeth 
(Bairstow). Widely distributed from Mauritius to the Sand- 
wich Islands, Japan, Borneo, and Australia. 
