570 Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Ci/proeidoB. 



Jjcngth j5^, breadth r^^ of an inch. 



The shell varies from ovate globose to ovate oblong : when 

 young it is pale, rose-coloured, and quite smooth. 



Mr. Dillwyn observes that Gmelin's C. carnea appears to be no- 

 thing more than C sulcata in its immature state. The C. carnea 

 may at once be distinguished from C. sulcata and from all the 

 other striated Cowries, by its broad mouth and thin texture, and by 

 the back being quite destitute of any groove, and never spotted. 



I have a specimen which exactly agrees with Lamarck's des- 

 cription and figure of C. ovulata, which appears to be a worn 

 state of this shell ; it differs only in having the appearance of being 

 more solid. It may be the worn or young C. aperta. 



Blainville, in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, has de- 

 scribed from Duclos a species under the name of C. rosea, thus ; 

 *' Tres petite coquille, buUee, presque globuleuse, et d'une tres 

 jolie couleur rose." It may be this shell, but tres petite can 

 scarcely be applied to it. The only other rose-coloured Cowry 

 that I know is C. quadrimaculata. 



107. Cjjprwa triticea. — Wheat Cowry. 



" Coquille a peine plus grosse que la precedente [Cypraea 

 rosea] et d'un brun vineux partout." 



"Cypraea trh'icea. Dufresiie" Blainville, Did. Set. Nat.xliu.^5' 



Inhabits the West Indies. 



I only know this shell by the above short notice. 



108. Cyprcea australis. — New Holland Cowry. 



Tests, ovata, albida, tenui, maculis 5. v. 6, pallide carneis 

 pictS, ; extremitatibus roseis ; striis longitudinalibus tenuibus, 

 laevibus ; linea dorsali lata, vix impress^; apertura lineari, postice 

 isubproducta ; dentibus zequalibus. 



1. Incompleta. Testa dorso laevigata polita. 



Cypraea australis. Lamarck, Hist. Anim. sans vert. vii. 404. 



2. Junior. Testa polita rosea. 



Inhabits New Holland, common, MacLeay. Sandwich Islands, 

 Capt. Lord Byron. Mus. Brit., nost. &c. 



Shell ovate, white, thin, with rose-coloured ends, and the back 



