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at each side of the two canals. The margins 
irregular spots. The margin on the Gninheliae cues’ ee Pan’ 
fined while the labial margin is quite pronounced. The oaaate are 
yite thickly and strongly produced but are shorter in proportion- 
ate length than the canais of the species to which I compared C 
jisetae earlier; there is in fact a greater similarity to the @anals 
of 6. midwayensis than to the canals of C. cicercula. The aperture 
of the shell is rather narrow and curved towards the posterior 
canale The color of the base and the teeth is creamy/tan. The 
labial teeth are more strongly produced than those on the columellar 
side. On both sides of the aperture the teeth appear to be more 
strongly produced near the canals than near the center of the shell. 
Kilburn remarks that in his paratype specimen the columellar teeth 
are restricted to the columella edge but this is not evident in the 
specimen here figured or to such an extreme degree in Kilburn's 
holotype. This specimen has 21 teeth on its columellar side. The 
type specimens have 22. It also has the same number of labial teeth 
as the paratype (23), 3 fewer than the holotype. There is a wide 
concave fossula present and a pronounced fossular ridge which has 
three rather indistinct denticles. Four were reported by Kilburn 
in the holotype but the paratype was edentulate. 
I feel quite privileged to have been able to examine a specimen of 
this small and very little known species. One suspects that it is 
a species that we will know quite little about for a long time to 
come, since little collecting of any kind is done from the waters 
that this species apparently inhabits. Those of you interested in 
further reading are directed to Kilburn's well-written original 
description. Color photographs of C. lisetae may be found in the 
second edition of COWRIES by Jerry G. Wallis (1979), page 253. 
The specimen illustrated and discussed here is in the collection of 
Mr, and Mrs. P. Maltese, Chamblee, Georgia. 

Cypraea lisetae Kilburn, 1975. lL. 127mm 
ex pisce off southern Mogambique 
Photograph by Robert H. Janowsky 
et 
WHAT'S IN A NAME ? 
amed after the god- 
Because of their great beauty the Cypraea were n 
dess of love and beauty. Her home was on Cyprus, thus she had = 
surname "Gypria." She was "Venus" to Romans, "Aphrodite" to Greeks. 
ef. Bullfinch, Poirier, Webster 
