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MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM . 
Sow., Cardwell.'’ If these were not inisi dent ideations of the same species they 
might refer to alien specimens, but Mr. Mel. Ward brought in from Friday 
Island a typical specimen of sophia , and it may be recorded that the figure 
given by Try on (Man. Conch., vol. iv., p. 87, pi. 25, f. 57, 1882) as sophice is 
not the real species. 
Family CYPR^EIMS. 
Many more species exist in Queensland waters than were listed by 
Hedley, and a dozen are here added. In this case no attempt to determine the 
generic divisions has been made, as to a great extent these will depend upon 
animal characters : — 
Cypraea becki Gaskoin, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1835, p. 205; Reeve, Conch. 
Icon., vol. iii, pi. xxii, sp. 125, 1846. 
Cypraea caurica var. oblongata Melville, Mem. Proc. Manch, Lit. Soc. ser ix 
vol. i, p. 217, pi. 1, f. 8, 1888. 
Cypraea cicercula Linne, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 725, 1758: “M. Mediterraneo.” 
Cypraea cribraria Linne, Syst, Nat. xth ed., p. 723, 1758: no locality cited. 
Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, Conch. Illus., f. 21, p. 10, 1832: no loc. Ex 
Gray MS. 
Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 23: Conch. Icon., 
vol. iii, pi. xxii, sp. 122, Feb. 1846. 
Cypraea globulus Linne, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 725, 1758: “Asia,” ex Rumph. 
Cypraea irrorata Gray, Zool. Journ., vol. iv, p. 80, 1828: Reeve, Conch. Icon., 
vol. iii, sp. 126, Feb. 1846. 
Cypraea mappa Linne, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 718, 1758 : “0. Africa.” 
Cypraea microdon Gray, Zool. Journ., vol. iv, p. 71, 1828: Reeve, Conch. Icon., 
vol. iii, sp. 139, Feb. 1846. 
Cypraea nucleus Linne, Syst. Nat., xth ed., p. 724, 1758: “0. Indue or" ex 
Rumph. 
Cypraea subcylindrica Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. iv, p. 9, pi. xxvii, f. 269, 1870 : 
Indian Ocean, &c. 
Cypraea talpa Linne, Syst. Nat,, xth ed., p. 720, 1758: “Asia,” ex Rumph. 
Cypraea pyriformis Gray, Zool. Journ,, vol. i, p. 371, 1824: Sowerby, Conch. 
Illus., f. 23, p. 7, 1832: Ceylon. Albany Passage, Mel. Wardi, Michaelmas 
Cay. 
Some of these have already been recorded by Shirley, but his records are 
valueless, as extradimitai species from inland localities were included. 
Cypraea staphylaea and limacina. 
There has been much discussion as to the status of these two. Mr. Mel. 
Ward collected a series on the Capricorn Group and there prove to be two 
