Monograph of Cyprcea. 77 



Inhabits the Red Sea, Mauritius, Capt. Marryat. 



This variety, of which I have seen several specimens, especially in the 

 collections of Mrs, Mawe and Mr. Broderip, is of a most beautiful pale 

 whitish fulvous with three darker bands ; outer edge and extremities pale 

 yellowish brown; teeth like those of the type Onyx; inside rose coloured 

 or purplish. It is evidently a variety of this species. 



31*. Cyprcea umhilicata. 



Testa oblongo-ovata, antice acuminata, postice subrostrata, umhili- 

 cata, pallide fusco-maculata ; basi convexo; marginibus rotundatis, 

 albidis, fusco maculatis. 



Cypraea umhilicata. Sowerby, app. Tank. Cat. 30, No. 2260, not 

 Solander. 



Icon. Sowerby, I. c. t. 7. JFood's Cat. app. t. 3,f. 13. 



Inhabits. ? Mus. Brit. 



Shell oblong ovate, anterior extremity attenuated and elongated, hinder 

 rather beaked ; spire deeply concave ; centre of the body whorls ventri- 

 cose, pale brownish, brovra spotted; base rounded whitish; margin 

 rounded, whitish brown, spotted. Mouth rather vdder in front; teeth 

 rather large, nearly equal, those of the inner lip short; front of the colu- 

 mella flat, without any distinct concavity. 



Axis 31, diameter 2^ of an inch. 



The only specimen known of this shell is now in the British Museum. 

 It has many characters which would lead to a belief that it is a monstrous 

 variety of C. tigris, and indeed more specimens are wanted to firmly 

 establish its right to be considered as a species. 



The form of the columella has induced me to place this species in the 

 present section. This may have been altered by the same cause which 

 produced the sunk form of the spire. 



33. Cyprcea pyr if ormis, add. 



Testa decorticata. 



Inhabits New Holland. Capt. P. P. King. Mus. Brit. 



35. Cyprcea ziczac, add. 

 Cypraea misella. Perry^s Conch. 



