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Its habitat was given by Gaskoin as Australia ; Angas 

 localized it more definitely at Kangaroo Island and Port 

 Adelaide Creek ; Beddome extended it to Tasmania ; and 

 Pritchard and Gatliff recorded it from Victoria. 



Taken on the beach, Kangaroo Island, Gulf St. Vincent 

 and Spencer Gulf, Fowler Bay (Tate), and Albany 3. 

 Dredged alive in Gulf St. Vincent, 7 fathoms 6, 17 fathoms 3. 

 One is a facsimile of Sowerby's fig. 289, a small ventricose form 

 from Miss Saul's collection; others match fig. 533, "Mr 

 Hugh Owen's beautiful shell from South Australia." 



Cypraea angustata, Gmelin, var. pulicaria, Reeve 



Cypraea pulicaria, Reeve: Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 23; 

 Conch. Icon., vol. iii., 1846, pi. xvii., Sp. 84; Gaskoin: Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 97; Sowerby: Thes. Conch., 1870, p. 31, No. 

 105, pi. xxviii., figs. 290, 291; Tryon : Man. Conch., vol. vii., 

 1885, p. 189, pi. xvi., figs. 59, 60; Tate and May: Proc. Linn. 

 Soc., vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 445; Hidalgo: Mon. Cyp. Viv., 1907, 

 p. 480; Verco : Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., vol. xxxvi., 1912, 

 p. 210; Hedley: Journ. Roy. Soc. W. Austr., vol. i., 1916, p. 199. 



Its habitat was unknown to Reeve and Gaskoin; 

 Sowerby and Tryon give it as Australia; Tate and May 

 deny Tasmania, as affirmed by Paetel; Hidalgo rightly cites 

 Geographe Bay. It has not been recorded from Victoria. 

 E. H. Matthews has 5 worn examples from Corny Point. 



Dredged in Gulf St. Vincent or Spencer Gulf, 3; one 

 has the articulated, cross bands, and sparse large dots along 

 the sides and over the dorsum; a second has the sparse 

 large dots on the sides and dorsum, and the articulated bands 

 on the left base and side, but on the dorsuih the middle 

 two bands have their spots joined by narrow brown bars, 

 while the spots of the anterior and posterior bands become 

 blotches, and the whole surface is finely peppered and reticu- 

 lated brown. Forty miles west of Eucla, in 100 to 116 

 fathoms, 1 was dredged alive; 80 miles west, in 80 fathoms, 

 1 alive, and in 100 fathoms, 2 alive, up to 20 mm. ; and 

 90 miles west, in 100 fathoms, 4 alive, the largest 23*5 mm. 

 long without spots of any kind, one 21 mm. with many spots 

 on the thickened outer lip alone, one of 19 mm. with spots 

 scattered sparsely over the dorsum and sides, none on the 

 base or outer lip, one 19 mm. with spots scattered sparsely 

 over the dorsum, sides, and thickened outer lip. 



Esperance 3, one with the middle two rows of spots 

 joined by a brown bar and so grading into G. bicolor, but 

 with the numerous side dots coming well over the dorsum. 

 Albany 2, up to 21*5 mm. x 12 x 9*5, typical in shape and 

 ornament, with four equidistant cross bands of articulated 

 squarish brown spots, and numerous smaller rounded dots on 



