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paid at the sale of his shells, the sum of £3 3s. is entered 

 against C. umbilicata, Sowerby. 



Angas in 1867 recorded the dredging, in deep water 

 2 miles off the coast of New South Wales, a little south of 

 Wollongong, of several living specimens, somewhat smaller 

 and paler in colour than the ordinary Tasmanian examples. 



Sowerby in his Thesaurus gives figures of Miss Saul's 

 specimen, which is possibly the before-mentioned individual, 

 offered to her by Mr. Gunn for £30, and which subsequently 

 realized that sum : and also of one of those mentioned by 

 Mr. Angas as being dredged by Admiral Loring off Wol- 

 longong. 



Dr. Cox in 1880 created a variety, alba, for a shell 

 obtained at Circular Head, Tasmania, pure white, and 

 quite devoid of all the usual characteristic spots and colour- 

 ation. 



John Brazier in 1883 recorded typical examples found 

 by Mr. Bailey at Cape Schanck and Portland, on the Vic- 

 torian coast. 



C. E. Beddome, in an exhaustive note, refers to an 

 individual found by Dr. A. E. Cox at Port Stephens, New 

 South Wales, only 2^ in. long, lighter in colour than the 

 Tasmanian shells, covered with light chestnut spots, base 

 white, but not so highly enamelled as the southern forms 

 found here (in Tasmania). He reproduces it (fig. 2, pi. xx.). 



When out in the Federal trawler "Endeavour" in March, 

 1912, three large cowries, with a deep umbilicus, were 

 obtained. Two of them were immature and very slightly 

 coloured, but the third was mature, and resembled somewhat 

 Cyprcea umbilicata, Sowerby. I have regarded it as a 

 variety of this species, and named it Cyprcr.a armeniaca (from 

 armeniaca, an apricot), because of the beautiful apricot-yellow 

 colour of its base. Should other examples be found and 

 establish its right to a specific distinction its name will stand, 

 as I know of no other species so called. 



Cypraea umbilicata, Sowerby ; var. armeniaca, n. v. 



Shell solid, globular, very smooth and glazed. It has 

 a well-marked umbilicus in which the volutions are plain ; 

 obsolete, narrow, flat, spiral bands occur on the right side of 

 the dorsum. The base is convex. The aperture moderately 

 wide, slightly dilated anteriorly, and then narrowing into a 

 canal 8 mm. long ; posteriorly very curved round the posterior 

 part of the whorl and turning up behind and ending in a 

 well-marked notch. The outer lip is bent in at a right angle, 

 slightly convexly flattened, thick, with 38 rather small teeth, 



