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This smooth and elegant shell might at first sight he almost taken for an old 

 specimen of Mitra Striatula. The colour is a beautiful tawny orange diversified 

 by lighter and darker longitudinal shades. The volutions, of which there are eight 

 or nine, are slightly rounded, separated by an indistinct suture and obsoletely 

 striated transversely. The outer lip is smooth and thin, and the whole shell when 

 perfect, covered with an olive brown epidermis. Pillar with four plaits, the last 

 however scarcely apparent. New Holland. Length three inches. 



Family— CYPREAD^. 



Oval ; polished ; spire entirely concealed : aperture as long as the shell, naiTow, and open 



at each end : outer hp generally thickened and inflected. 

 Sub-Family — CvpRiEiNiE. Inner hp striated, or toothed. 

 Gemts — Cyprea. Shell always entirely smooth : the extremities of the aperture obtuse : 



the teeth marginal, and not extending over the circumference of the Ups. 



C. PULCHELLA.* PRETTY COWRY. 



Plate XXXV. 



Testa, ovata, albida, obscure fasciata, fulvo punctata, maculis dorsahbus, duobus, fulvis, 

 irregularibus signata ; lateribus albo-flavescentibus, nigro-fusco-guttatis : basi 

 convexa, striata ; striis elevatis spadiceis. 



Gray, Mon. Cyp. Zool. J. 1. p. 379. no. 42. Swainson, Phil. Mag. Ixi. 37&. Sow. Cone. 

 II. Cyprese, fig. 40. 



Shell ovate or suboblong-ovate, white, with very obscure broad purplish bands : 

 the back irregularly clouded with minute yellowish-fulvous dots, and ornamented with 

 two irregular squareish fuscous dorsal spots : sides yellowish white, with a few 

 largeish i-ound blackish brown spots, and dark brown at the ends. The spire con- 

 cave, covered ; the base convex : the teeth narrow, small, distinct, brown, extending 

 like ribs nearly to the margin half-way over the inner lip : front part of the colu- 

 mella rather concave, plaited. Axis fifteen-sixteenths of an inch, diameter five- 

 sixteenths of an inch. 



* This excellent description is extracted from the monograph of the family by Mr. Gray, from whose 

 talents and kindness I have derived much assistance in this work. 



