Mr. Gray's Monograph an the Cvprceidce. 383 



Cypraea cribraria. Lin. Sys. Nat. 1176! Born. Mus. 186. 

 Schroet. Einl. }. 119. Gmelin 1434. Schreiber^s Conch, j. 74. 

 Lamarck Ann. Mus. xvi. 94. Hist. vii. 391. Dillwyn R. S. 458. 



Icon. List. Conch, t. 695. f. 42 ! Petiver's Gaz. t. 8. f. 3. 

 Argenville t. 18. f. k. Rcgenfuss j. t. 12. f. 74. Favanne t. 29, 

 f. 13. 14. Martini 1. 1. 31. 336. Encyc. Method. 355. f. 5. 



Inhabits China. Humphrei/s. 



Shell oblong ovate, white, or yellowish-white, covered with a 

 pale fulvous brown coat perforated with numerous large, nearly 

 equal, round holes, Avhich show the white ground colour of the 

 shell, and leave a straight lateral dorsal line ; spire small, concave, 

 covered ; base rather convex, white ; edge sharply margined on 

 the outer side and the extremities ; the outer lip mostly ornamented 

 with a few small yellow spots on the upper part ; aperture rather 

 large ; teeth of the inner lip rather distant, small, narrow, except 

 the tvio or three anterior ones, which are rather distant ; those of 

 the outer lip large, blunt, distant, slightly extended over the shelv- 

 ing outer lip ; columella scarcely concave, plaited ; inside white. 

 Axis li, diameter .^-^ of an inch. 



This shell varies greatly in the colour of the outer coat from yel- 

 low to reddish-brown ; and also in size. 



47. Cyprxajimbriata. — The fringed Cowry. 



Testa oblongo-ovata albido-casrulescente ; fasciis quinque ob- 

 scuris fuscis interruptis ornata ; basialba planulata ; labro submar- 

 ginato, minute punctato; extremitatibus violaceo bimaculatis. 



Cypraea n. 14. Schroeter. Einl. j. 237. 



Cypraea fnnbriata. Gmelin 3423? Schreiber^s Conch, t. 79. 

 Dillicjjn R. S. 465. 



" Cypraea tenella. Solander^s ill^.v." Dillwyn. 



Icon. Martini j. 26. f. 263'. 



Inhabits. Mus. Nost. 



Shell oblong ovate, blueish-white, with five obscure, pale, nar- 

 row, yellowish interrupted bands, four of which are arranged ia 

 pairs ; spire flat, covered ; base white, rather flat ; edge roundly 

 margined on the outer side and extremities, which have each two 

 violet spots ; aperture rather wide and concave in front, white, 



