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rather weak teeth, the strongest anterior; outer lip with about 

 twenty teeth, also strongest anteriorly and fading out posterior- 

 ly; upper margin of outer lip projecting; surface of shell entirely 

 smooth, with traces on the back of a color pattern of white spots 

 of varying size on a dark ground. Length of shell 60, width 44, 

 thickness 39 mm. 



This splendid cowry is about the size of C. Henekeni, but 

 more globose and with no traces of dorsal tubercles, nor lateral 

 corrugations, with a different color pattern, and with the apex of 

 the spire visible. 



I take the liberty of naming this species in honor of Arch- 

 bishop Nouel of Santo Domingo, whom I had the honor of meeting 

 in his beautiful and historic Cathedral. 



Locality. — (Exp'd '16) Bluff 1, Cercado de Mao. 



Cyprcea spurca Linne 

 Plate 19, Figure 6 



Cyprcea spurca Linne, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, page 724, 1758. 



Cyprcea spurca Reeve, Conch. Icon., 3, pi. 14, fig. 68, 1845. 



Cyprcea spurca Gabb, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. 15, p. 235, 1873. 



Cyprcea spurca Dall and Simpson, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 20, pt. 

 1, page 420, 1900. 



I can find no points of difference between the fossils and re- 

 cent specimens from the Antilles of C. spurca. 



Localities. — (Exp'd '16) Bluff 1, Cercado de Mao; Zone 

 I, Rio Cana at Caimito. (Rare). 



Cyprcea spurcoides Gabb 

 Plate 19, Figures 7, 8,9 

 Cyprcea spurcoides Gabb, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. 15, p. 235, 1873. 

 Gabb remarks that the cremulations are more numerous on 

 the inner than the outer lip of spurcoides, but his metatypes show 

 the reverse. This unfigured species has not been reported out- 

 side of Santo Domingo. 



Localities. — (Exp'd '16) Bluff 1, Cerado de Mao; Zone D, 

 Rio Gurabo at Los Ouemados. 



