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Show 1867.] MR. G. F. ANGAS O N AUSTRALIAN MOLLUSCA. 205 115. CONUS GRAYI. Conus grayi, Reeve, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 179; Conch. Icon. pl. 46. f. 258. A somewhat elongated shell, smooth above, ridged below, and handsomely painted with two rows of large waved blackish spots. This species is of very rare occurrence. Under rocks at Middle Harbour at low spring tide. Length 11 lines. Suborder ROSTRIFERA. Fam. CYPRJEID^E. 116. CYPROVULA UMBILICATA. Cyprcea umbilicata, Sow. in Tank. Cat. 2260. Cyprovula umbilicata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 125. Several living specimens of this rare shell were dredged in deep water, at a distance of two miles off the coast of New South Wales, a little to the southwards of Wollongong, by Commodore Loring, C.B., when commanding H.M.S. ' Iris.' They are somewhat smaller and paler in colour than the ordinary Tasmanian examples. Length of the New South Wales specimens 3 inches. 117. CYPRCEA VITELLUS. Cyprcea vitellus, Linn.; Lister, Conch, pl. 693. f. 40. This species, so abundant throughout the Indo-Pacific molluscan province, is rarely met with in Port Jackson. The few that have been obtained alive in Wooloomooloo Bay and at Coorunulla beach are rich in colour and moderately large. Length of largest Coorunulla specimen 2 inches 3 lines. 118. CYPRCEA CAPUT-SERPENTIS. Cyprcea caput-serpentis, Linn.; Lister, Conch, pis. 701, 702. f. 49, 50. Like C. vitellus, this species, although one of the most abundant within the tropics, is rare in Port Jackson, only three or four specimens having been found at Manly Beach and Long Bay, which may be considered its furthest southern limit. The young shells are ash-coloured, with a dark central band. Length 1\ inch. 119. CYPRCEA ASELLUS. Cyprcea asellus, Linn.; Encyc. Me'th. pl. 356. f. 5. Several specimens of this species were dredged in Port Jackson Harbour by the late Fred. Strange. I obtained three examples myself at Long Bay, between Port Jackson and Botany Heads. They are larger and the bands more deeply coloured than those from Ceylon. Length 9 lines. 120. CYPR.EA CLANDESTINA. Cyprcea clandestine!, Linn.; Wood, Ind. Tes. pl. 3. f. 17. C. moniliaris, Lam. |