366 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cj/prceidcB. 



convexis, distantibus, apice sub-incrassatis ; liiica, dorsali latius- 

 cul^, impressa, albida ; basi planulata, submarginatH ; aperturi 

 linear! ; dentibus subaequalibus. 



Inhabits California. 



Shell ovate, veiitricoso, purplish brown ; the longitudinal striae 

 are distant and convex ; their ends are slightly thickened in the 

 middle of the back, where there is a broad, whitish, impressed 

 dorsal line. The base is rather flat, and slightly margined on the 

 outer lip; the aperture is linear; the teeth of the inner lip 11, of 

 the outer 16, nearly similar, small. 



Length -^*^, diameter ^^5-, of an inch. 



This species is very like the preceding, but differs in always 

 being of a darker colour, the dorsal line being narrower, and the 

 ends of the longitudinal lines not being so distinctly thickened, 

 nor the margin so much expanded. I was first shewn the shell by 

 Mrs. Mawe, but I have since received several specimens from 

 California. 



96. Cyprcea Europcca. — Europaean Cowry. 



Testa ovata, ventricosa, fusc^, trimaculata ; striis longitudinali- 

 bus laevihus ; liiiea dorsali nulla ; apertura linear!, postice subpro- 

 ducta ; dentibus aequalibus. 



Cypraea Pediculus (Europaea). Linn. Syst. Nat. 1180. Penn. 

 Brit. Zool. iv. t. 115. Dacosta, Brit. Conch. 32. Donovan, 

 Brit. Shells, ii. t. 43. Montagu, Test. Brit. 200. Maton &{ Racket, 

 Liimean Trans, viii, 120. l^urton, Conchological Dictionary, 35. 



Cypraja arctica. " Solander's MSS." Dillwyn. 



Cypraea coccinella. Lamarck, Ann. Mas. xvi. 104. Jlist. 

 Anim. sans vert. vii. 404. 



Cypraea Europaa. Montagu, Test. Brit. iii. 88. Dillwyn, 

 R.S. i. 467. 



Icon. iJster, Anim. Angl. t. 3. f. 17. — Lister, Conch, t. 707. f. 

 57.— Martini, i. t. 29. f. 309.— Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. t. 70. f. 82. 

 — Dacosta, Brit. Conch, t. ii. f. 6. republished in Pultency, Ilist. 

 Dorset, t. 6. — Donovan, Brit. Shells, ii. t. 43. — Turton, Conch. 

 Diet. f. 14. 15.— Ency. Method. Vers, t. 356. f. 1. b. 



