Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Ci/prmdoc. 497 



thickened, depressed, and rather rounded on the edge, dark ash- 

 coloured, clouded with pale lines ; the base flattish, dark ash-co- 

 loured, with a pale reddish spot on the centre of the inner lip ; 

 aperture wide, especially in front, where the lips shelve inwards ; 

 tt'eth dark brown, of the inner lip small, blunt, distant, rarely ex- 

 ceeding six or eight in number, there generally being none 

 on the centre of the lip; teeth of the outer lip small, distant; 

 the columella smooth, front part flat; inside brownish ash-coIour» 

 Axis i^, diameter l| of an inch. 



This shell, which is usually called the Leopard or the Bloody 

 Stab, has very little affinity to any described species of the genus, 

 it resembles C. stercoruria in some respect, with regard to its co- 

 louring, but not in general form, or in the structure of its aperture. 

 When young, it is ovate, rather gibbous in the centre of its back, 

 of a pale ash-colour, ornamented with transversed waved darker 

 lines, having in some places the appearance of three longitudinal 

 bands formed of arrow-shaped spots ; the spire is concave, and just 

 over the posterior groove on the side of the spire is a large dark 

 brown blotch, which is partly visible in the full grown shell ; the 

 margin is slightly thickened, pale ash^coloured, clouded with 

 darker irregular spot. 



■65. Ci/prcea angiistata. — The narrow Cowry. 



Testa ovata, bruneo-rufescens, basi albida ; marginibus subin- 

 crassatis, albidis, nigro-punctatis ; labro supra marginato ; colu- 

 mella concava, plicata. 



Cypraea angustata. Gmelln 3421. (1.) Schreibers Conch.'}. 77. 



Cypraea n. 62. Sckroeier Einl. }. 150. 



Icon. Gaultier. t. 13, f. 22 (1). Bad. Zool. Journ. t. f. 



Inhabits. New Holland. 



Mus. Brit. Dom. Children. Nost. 



Shell ovate, reddish brown, or rarely pale brown ; the spire 

 prominent, covered ; the base convex, white; the margin slightly 

 thickened, rounded, with small, rouiul, black, spots; that of the 

 inner lip rounded, only slightly extended ; and that of the outer 

 rather sharply edged, with the extremities generally dark; the 

 aperture rather large ; teeth equal, small, close ; columella rather 



