538 Edwards— Descriptions of Cyprea and Marginella. 
wider, and the callus at each extremity is thicker and more promi- 
nent than in C. angystoma. A Cyprea is found in the lower Oli- 
gocene formation at Latdorf (C.spherica, Phil.), to which our English 
shell also presents a close resemblance; but in the German species 
the shell is more attenuated in front, and does not present the spoon- 
shaped depression which characterises C. cavata; it is besides much 
smaller. 
Size: In the figured specimen, in the direction of the axis, 1 in. 
11-12ths; diameter, 1 in. and 5-12ths; but a specimen from Hunting 
Bridge has attained a length of 2 in. and 1-12th. 
Localities: Hunting Bridge and Bramshaw in the New Forest 
(Mus. Edw.). 
2. CypR#A ALATA (F. E. Edwards); Plate XIV. fig. 4 a, b. 
C. testa ovato globosa, antice attenuata, levi: spird omnino 
obtecta; apertura latiuscula, arcuata, antice paulo effusa, ad 
basin emarginata; labro regulariter arcuato, in medio com- 
presso, postice producto, edentulo? labio dentato-plicato. 
Shell oviform, ventricose, smooth, presenting on the posterior 
portion of the lower surface a few sharp, irregular, transverse eleva- 
ted lines, a character generally indicative of an immature state : the 
spire is entirely concealed. The aperture is moderately wide, curved, 
a little effuse in front, and broadly but not deeply notched at the 
base. The outer lip is regularly curved, somewhat flattened on the 
inner surface, and prolonged and much bent at the posterior ex- 
tremity, where it forms, as it were, a wing-like enlargement, from 
which the specific name is taken. ‘The specimen under description 
does not present any trace of teeth on the outer lip; but it may be 
an immature specimen, and I hesitate therefore to rely on its eden- 
tulous condition as a specific character. ‘The inner lip presents a 
series of irregular pliciform teeth, which become almost obsolete to- 
wards the posterior extremity. 
In general character and appearance this Cypr@a presents a re- 
semblance to C. Levesquet (Desh.); but, judging from the figure 
given by Deshayes, it is more globose than that shell, and not so 
much attenuated in front: the aperture, also, is more curved and 
wider, and the outer lip is altogether edentulous. 
This remarkably fine Cowry forms part of Mr. Wetherell’s valua- 
ble collection. 
Size: In the direction of the axis to the end of the outer lip, 2 in.; 
diameter, 1 in. and 4-12ths. | 
Locality : Highgate, where it was obtained from the cutting for 
the Highgate and Edgeware Railway (Mus. Weth.). 
3. CyPRHA ORTHOCHEILA (F. E. Edwards) ; Plate XIV. fig. 2 a, b. 
C. testa ovata, ventricosa, antice attenuata, levi: spira obtecta ; 
apertura elongata, latiuscula, recta, ad basin paulo effusa, 
postice subcanaliculata ; marginibus regulariter dentatis, denti- 
