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have small reddish-brown spots on each margin, and others 
in addition may be dusted with very minute brownish specks. 
Some have the cream colour slightly tinged with brown, 
and yet without dots or bands, or have dots only, or faint 
transverse brown bands in addition. Others may be browner 
still, with faint brown bands, marginal dots fairly many and 
distinct or absent, and so merge into (. subcarnea. 
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Cypraeca piperita, Gray: Zool. Journ., vol. i, 1825, p. 498; 
Sowerby: Conch. Illus., Cyp. Cat., 1837, No. 100, fig. 24, 1832; 
Menke: Moll. Noy.-Holl., 1843, p. 30; Reeve: Conch. Icon., vol. 
ili., 1846, pl. xvii., Sp. 87; Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 
170, and 1367, . 206; Sowerby: Thes. Conch., vol. iv., 1870, 
p. 31, No. 104, hes, 285, 286; Ten. Woods: Proc. Roy Soc. Tas., 
1878 (1877), p. 85; Tryon: Man. Conch., vol. vii., 1885, p. 189; 
Adcock: Handlist Aq. Moll. S. aAustr., 1893.-pr-S5p"No.~ 158; 
Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxil., 1898, p. 574, 
yl. xxi., figs. 17, 18; Pritchard and Gatliff: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 
N.S), vol. xii., 1900 (1899), p. 184; Tate and May: Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 374; Hedley: Proc. Roy. 
Soc. W- Austr., vol. i., p. 199; Hedley: Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. 
Wales, vol. li., Supp., i918, p. M. 70. 
Sowerby, in 1870, first suggested its conspecifity with 
C. angustata, and Pritchard and Gatliff supported him. 
Woods, Beddome, and Tate and May kept them separate. 
Hedley unites them, and my examples completely intergrade. 
Gray gives its habitat as New Holland; Sowerby as 
New South Wales; Menke as Western Australia; Angas as 
Port Lincoln and Port Jackson; Ten. Woods as Tasmania; 
Pritchard and Gatliff as Victoria. 
Taken on the beach at Normanville and American River, 
Kangaroo Island. Dredged alive in Backstairs Passage in 
13, 15, 18, 20, and 23 fathoms; in Gulf St. Vincent in 5 
fathoms; in Investigator Strait, 13, 15, and 17 fathoms; 
and dead but fresh in 25 fathoms off Beachport; also on the 
beach at Esperance 1, and at Albany 4. 
var. Keno bite KE, 
Cypraea bicolor, Gaskoin: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1848, p. 91, 92; 
Angas: Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 170; Sowerby: Thes. Conch., 
vol. iv., 1870, p. 31, No. 104, figs. 288, 289, 583; Tryon: Man. 
Conch., vol. vii., 1885, p. 189; Adcock: Handlist Aq. Moll. S. 
Austr., 1893, p. 5, No. 159; Beddome: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 
Wales, vol. xxii., 1898, p. 576; Pritchard and Gatliff: Proc. Roy. 
Soc. Vict. (N.S.), vol. xii., 1900 (1899), p. 184; Tate and May: 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Waies, vol. xxvi., 1901, p. 374. 
Sowerby, in 1870, made it a variety of (. piperita, 
Gray; Tryon, Pritchard and Gatliff, and Tate and May cor- 
rectly concur. 

