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No. 157; Henn: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xx., 1896, 



p. 520; Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, 



p. 568, pi. xxi., figs. 15, 16; Hedley : Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, vol. li. (1917), 1918, M. 70. 



Habitat. — Gray gives Port Essington; Angas, Port Lin- 

 coln, Gulf St. Vincent, and Port Adelaide Creek; Brazier, 

 Twofold Bay, New South Wales, Cape Riche, King George 

 Sound, and nortli coast of Tasmania; Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 Victoria. It is more common along the South Australian 

 coast than the typical C. angustata. It is found alive in 

 rock pools, and has been dredged alive up to 14 fathoms. It 

 may be 21 mm. x 12"5 x 9*5, or reach 27 x 16*5, as at St. 

 Francis Island. Several have been taken at Albany up to 

 20 mm., but none on the western coast of Western Australia. 



C. angustata, Gmelin, var. declivis, Sowerby. 



Cypraea declivis, Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. iv., 1870, p. 

 31, No. 103, figs. 287, 328*, 329*; Bedodme : Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 571, pi. xxi., figs. 12-14; Pritchard and 

 Gatliff: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict,, vol. xii. (N.S.), (1899), 1900, p. 184. 



Habitat. — Sowerby gives Tasmania; Pritchard and Gat- 

 liff, Victoria. The plump ventricose form, with crowded 

 large dark-brown spots along the columellar side, smaller 

 lighter peppered spots all over the dorsum, is found at 

 MacDonnell Bay, 2, 25 mm. x 18 x 13'5; the narrow form, 

 Esperance Bay, 1. 



Cypraea angustata, Gm., var. mayi, C. E. Beddome: Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 570, pi. xxi., figs. 4, 

 5, 6, 7. 



Taken at MacDonnell Bay; at Sleaford Bay, 5, up to 



26 mm. x 17 x 13'5, and down to 16*5 mm. x 12 x 8*25; 



also at Venus Bay, up to 29 mm. x 19 x 14*5; at Albany, 



7, up to 25 mm. 



Cypraea angustata, Gm., var. subcarnea, Ancey, C. E. 

 Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxi., 1896, part 3, 

 p. 467; also op. cit., vol. xxii., 1898, p. 571, pi. xxi., figs. 8, 9, 10. 



Habitat. — Tasmania (Beddome); Victoria (Pritchard and 

 Gatliff). This is quite rare in South Australia, but is taken 

 in MacDonnell Bay and Lacepede Bay; and on© was found 

 at Esperance, in Western Australia. 



Cypraea angustata, Gm., var. albata, C. E. Beddome: Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 571, pi. xxi., figs, 

 11, 11a. 



His type locality is Derwent River, Tasmania; but he 

 reports a specimen from South Australia. There is a narrow 

 pur© white form like an albino— C. comptoni, Gray — from 

 MacDonnell Bay and Gulf St. Vincent ; also a cream-coloured 

 plumper form without spots or dorsal bands. Others may 



