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have small reddish-brown spots on each margin, and others 

 in addition may be dusted with very minute brownish specks. 

 Some have the cream colour slightly tinged with brown, 

 and yet without dots or bands, or have dots only, or faint 

 transverse brown bands in addition. Others may be browner 

 still, with faint brown bands, marginal dots fairly many and 

 distinct or absent, and so merge into G. subcarnea. 



Cypraea angustata, Gmelin. var piperita, Gray. 



Cypraea piperita, Gray: Zool. Journ., vol. i, 1825, p. 498 

 Sowerby: Conch. Illus., Cyp. Cat., 1837, No. 100, fig. 24, 1832 

 Menke: Moll. Nov.-Holl., 1843, p. 30; Reeve: Conch. Icon., vol 

 iii., 1846, pi. xvii., Sp. 87; Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p 

 170, and 1867, p. 206; Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. iv., 1870 

 p. 31, No. 104, figs. 285, 286; Ten. Woods: Proc. Roy Soc. Tas. 

 1878 (1877), p. 35; Tryon : Man. Conch., vol. vii., 1885, p. 189 

 Adcock: Handlist Aq. Moll. S. Austr., 1893, p. 5, No. 158 

 Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 574 

 pi. xxi., figs. 17, 18; Pritchard and Gatliff: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict 

 <N.S.), vol. xii., 1900 (1899), p. 184; Tate and May: Proc. Linn 

 Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 374; Hedlev : Proc. Rov 

 Soc. W. Austr., vol. i., p. 199; Hedley: Proc. Rov. Soc. N.S. 

 Wales, vol. li., Supp., 1918, p. M. 70. 



Sowerby, in 1870, first suggested its conspecifity with 

 C. angustata , and Pritchard and Gatliff supported him. 

 Woods, Beddome, and Tate and May kept them separate. 

 Hedley unites them, and my examples completely intergrade. 



Gray gives its habitat as New Holland; Sowerby as 

 New South Wales ; Menke as Western Australia ; Angas as 

 Port Lincoln and Port Jackson; Ten. Woods as Tasmania; 

 Pritchard and Gatliff as Victoria. 



Taken on the beach at Normanville and American River, 

 Kangaroo Island. Dredged alive in Backstairs Passage in 

 13, 15, 18, 20, and 23 fathoms; in Gulf St. Vincent in 5 

 fathoms; in Investigator Strait, 13, 15, and 17 fathoms; 

 and dead but fresh in 25 fathoms off Beachport ; also on the 

 beach at Esperance 1, and at Albany 4. 



Cypraea angustata, Gmelin, var. bicolor, G^skoin. 



Cypraea bicolor, Gaskoin : Proc. Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 91, 92; 

 Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 170; Sowerby: Thes. Conch., 

 vol. iv., 1870, p. 31, No. 104, figs. 288, 289, 533; Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. vii., 1885, p. 189; Adcock: Handlist Aq. Moll. S. 

 Austr., 1893, p. 5, No. 159; Beddome: Proc Linn. Soc N.S. 

 Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 576; Pritchard and Gatliff: Proc Rov. 

 Soc. Vict. (N.S.), vol. xii., 1900 (1899). p. 184; Tate and May: 

 Proc Linn. Soc N.S. Wales, vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 374. 



Sowerby, in 1870, made it a variety of C piperita, 

 Gray; Tryon, Pritchard and Gatliff, and Tate and May cor- 

 rectly concur. 



