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length, are of a greyish-yellowish or yellowish-brown colour. 

 There may be no dots whatever, or only a few brown dots 

 about the right border, or many scattered all over the surface 

 irregularly, or some of these may be arranged in three trans- 

 verse rows, or besides other scattered sparse dots, there may 

 be two or three obscure transverse bands of brown blotches. 

 They are narrower and more cylindrical than the C . piperata, 

 Solander, though probably only a variant. 



Cyprsea umbilicata, Sowerby ; var. armeniaea, n. v. 

 PI. x, figs. 1-3. 



1825, Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, G. B., Catalogue of Shells 

 in collection of Earl of Tankerville, Appendix, p. xxx., No. 2260, 

 pi. iv. and v. : Type locality unknown. 



1826, Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, G. B., Zool. Jour., 1826. 

 vol. ii., p. 494. 



1828, Wood. Supp. Index, Test., 1828, p. 9, pi. iii., fig. 13, 

 hob. unknown. 



1828, Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, Gray, Zool. Jour., vol. iv., 

 p. 77, and Sowerby, G. B., p. 221. 



1837, Cyprcea pantherina, Solander MSS., var. umbilicata, 

 Sowerby, Conch. Illus. Cyprcea, p. 2, No. 5, fig. 169. 



1844, Cyprcea tigrina, Lamarck, Deshayes, Anim. S. Vert. 

 (2nd Edition, Deshayes, etc.), vol. x., p. 504. 



1845, Cyprcea pantherina, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 

 iii., Sp. 7. 



1848, Cyprovula umbilicata, Sowerby, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 London, pp. 124, 125. 



18G7, Cyprovula umbilicata, Sowerby, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 London, p. 205. 



1872, Cyprcnovula umbilicata, Sowerbv, Brazier, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, London, 1872, p. 86. 



1880, Crprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, Cox, Proc Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., 1879, p. 386. 



1880, Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerbv, Thes. Conch., vol. iv., 

 p. 21, Sp. 61, pi. vii., figs. 42-44. 



1883, Luponia umbilicata, Sowerby, Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W.. vol. vii., p. 117. 



1885. Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, Tryon, Man. Conch., vol. 

 vii., p. 181. 



1898, Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, Beddome, Proc Linn. 

 Soc, N.S.AV, vol. xxii., 1897, pp. 564-568, pi. xx., figs. 1, 2. 



1900. Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby, Pritchard and Gatliff, 

 Proc Roy. Soc, Victoria, vol. xii. (New Series), part 2, p. 187. 



1901, Cyprcnovula umbilicata, Sowerby, Tate and May, Proc 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 374. 



Cypraea umbilicata, Sowerby 

 This species was erected upon a shell in the collection 

 of the Earl of Tankerville, and was described and figured in 



