THE 



ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 



June, 1824. 



Art. XIX. Monograph on the Ci/prcBidce^ a Family/ of 

 Testaceous MoUusca. Bj/ Mi. John Edward Gray. 



[Continued from page 80.] 



6. Ct/prcea stercoraria ; var. Ratius: its synonymes continued. 

 Icon. List. Conch. 680, f. 35 (3)! Gualtier i. 15, f. F. 

 Ency. Method. 351, f . 4 ! 



1. Junior. 



Cypraea fasciata. Chemnitz x. 100, Gmelin 3406. Schreiber^s 

 Conch, t. 61. 



Cypraea gibba. Gmelin 3403. 



Icon. List, Conch, t. 663, f. 7. Chemnitz x, t. 144, f. 1334. 



2. Decorticata. 



Cyprasa cauterlata. Chemnitz x. 100, t. 144, f. 1332. 

 Cypraea, Chemnitz x. 100, t. 144, f. 1333. 



3. Distorta, lateribus tuberculatis. 

 Icon. Born. Mus. t. 8, f. 1. 



Inhabits West Indian Seas, African Ocean, and Jamaica ; 

 Lamarck, Lister: Coast of Guinea, Schroeter. Mus. Brit. J. 

 Sowerb. Nost. 



Shell ovate, ventricose, rather gibbose, pale yellowish, spotted 

 and clouded with fulvous brown, and with a black brown spot at 

 the side of the spire, marked with a rather irregular pale dorsal line, 

 base flat, livid brown, sides thickened, rather produced at the ex- 

 tremities, especially the hinder ones, rather angular ; livid, spot- 

 ted with blackish brown ; aperture dilated and concave in front, 



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