Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/501

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475 APPENDIX. There are t?o other specimens of this shell in the Museum whiclt do not agree with any that Lamarck describes; olle of these being fourteen-tenths of an inch long, and one inch hi?h, is double the size of Captain King'8 specimen; its habitation is not marked. but the other specimen is from Ceylon. 10. CYTHRRB& KINGll, (n. 8.) ?adiata, ?adi? fiavi?antib? ; iusul& lanccolato?o?lat? ; ?qbell ovate, heart-shaped, whlto or pale brown, with darker brown ray?, each formed of several narrow lines, the umbone? white, the edge quite entire; the lnnule hnceolal? he?rt,-sl?ped, defined, the centre rather prominent; inside white, the hinge m?i? rather broad. This ?hell is very like C?/tAer?a !?ta, but differ? from it in markings, az well a? it? outline, which is more orbicular. The specimen given to the Museum by Captain King, is one inch and eight-tenths of an inch high; but ther? is another specimen the collection, from the Tankerville cabinet (No. ?8), which twice that size. Cyther?a Gibbia, La? H?t. v. Icon. (?Aesm. vii. t. 39. f. 415. 416. 1?. PB?mCOL.? ZUBK.? ? Cardinto rubrum ? Montague. ?his shell agrees in general form, teeth, and colour, with the d?#m rubrum of Montagu, but it is larger. It wa? found imbedded in the sew-weed and spongy-like substance that covers the 13. CaAMA LmBVL?, Lard. Hi?t. vi. 95. This shell may, perhaps, be a variety of CAama gr?Aofdes. 14? ?RtDAOXA GIGAS, /,am. H?ft. vi. pt. 1. 105. Chama Gigas, Cone/. $yft. Nat. i. lco?. (,?Aemn, vii.t. 49, f. 49?. Ency, M?tA. pl.,9?. f. I.