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paid at the sale of his shells, the sum of £3 3s. is entered 
against C'. wmbilicata, 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 24 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, pl. 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 
Cuprea _umbilicata, Sowerby. I have regarded it as a 
variety of this species, and named it Cyprea 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 oi no other species so called. 
Cyprzea umbilicata, Sowerby ; var. armeniaca, ». v. bal Soden 
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, 
