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the western end of the South Australian coast, and is found 
as far north as Rottnest. It is taken alive on the beach at 
Albany, and also in 100 fathoms, so that it-has a wide range 
of depth. 
Cypraea angustata, Gmelin. 
Cypraca angustata, Gmelin: Syst. Nat., 1790, p. 8421, No. 
40; Sowerby: Conch. Illus., 1836, fig. 105; Cat. Cyp., 1837, p. 10, 
No. 99; Kiener: Coq. Viv., vol. 1, 1845, p. 48, No. 86, pl. xxxv., 
figs. 2, 2a; Reeve: Conch. Icon., vol. iii., 1846, pl. xvii., fig. 91; 
Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 170; Sowerby: hes. Conch., 
1870, p. 30, No. 101, pl. xxviii., figs. 296, 297; Ten. Woods: Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Tas., 1878 (1877), p. 35; Brazier: Proe. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. Wales, vol. v., 1881 (1880), p. 499; Adcock: Handlist Aq. 
Moll. S. Austr., 1893, p. 5, No. 156; Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S. Wales, yol. xxii., 1898, p. 568, pl. xxi., figs. 1-8; Pritchard 
and Gatliff: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic., vol. xii. (N.S.), 1900 (1899), 
p. 181; Hedley and May: Records Austr. Mus., vol. vii., No. 2, 
1908, p. 111; Hedley: Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1909, p. 361; 
Shaw: Proc. Mal. Soc. Lond., vol. viii., 1909, p. 306. 
Gmelin gives hab.(?); Sowerby, in 1837,%South Africa ; 
Kiener, Indian seas and shores of New Holland; Angas gives 
Guichen Bay, South Australia, and adds, ‘‘It is a Tasmanian 
species, not extending into the South Australian gulfs, where 
several allied species have their habitat’’; Ten. Woods gives 
“common’’ in Tasmania; Brazier questions the locality of 
a specimen from Moreton Bay, or the identification of the 
shell. But Hedley cites it from Queensland; and Hedley and 
May record it from 100 fathoms off Cape Pillar, Tasmania. 
Sowerby, in his Thesaurus, ventures the opinion that 
comptoni, declivis, piperita, and bicolor are all varieties of 
angustata; while Beddome creates the varieties swbcarnea, 
Ancey, mayi, and albata. Pritchard and Gatliff discuss this 
question fully, and declare all to be varieties. JI have no 
hesitation in supporting these authors and in confirming 
Sowerby’s further suspicion as to the varietal position of (’. 
pulicaria, Reeve. GC. angustata, Gmelin, the typical ventri- 
cose form, is not very common in South Australia, but is 
most so in the eastern part, as MacDonnell Bay, where occurs 
the very elegant form figured by Reeve, pl. xvil., fig. 91, 
covered with a bluish-white enamel. It is found, however, 
along the whole coastline of South Australia to the west, as 
far as explored, and at Albany up to 245 mm. in length. 
Like all its varieties it may have several transverse ridges. 
C. angustata, Gmelin, var. comptoni, Gray. 
_ Oypraea compton, Gray: Voy. ‘Fly,’ ii., App., 1847, p. 356, 
pl. i., f. 83; Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 170; Brazier: Proc. 
Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 85; Ten. Woods: Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1878 
(1877), p. 35; Adcock : Handlist Aq. Moll. S. Austr., 1898, p. 5, 
