DESCRIPTION. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 764. Fig. 13. 
Specimen white, with bluish, red, and yellow 
clouds, and transverse interrupted chesnut lines; 
aperture bluish, base marked with obsolete oblique 
strige ; spire acute, smooth, spotted, finely striated 
transversely. 
Inhabits India, Africa, and South America. 
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PLATE XIV. 
Fig. 1. Cypr^a Arabica. 
Shell subturbinate, marked with Oriental cha- 
racters; longitudinal stripe simple. 
Lister Conch. Tab. 659. 
Specimen above with bluish-white spots, between 
them tawny ; confluent brown and purple spots on 
the thickened sides, within pale violet, lips some- 
what rounded ; teeth brown. 
This second variety of the C. Arabica is so very 
different from the first, that it might without im- 
propriety constitute a separate species. The form 
of the first is longer and narrower, more lengthened 
at the base, depressed and not elevated' upon the 
back, lips perfectly flat, or slightly concave and 
