OLIVA. Panama Shells. 53 



Habitat. Unknown ; Linnaeus, 175S. 



Brazil ; Linnaeus, 1767 : also Gmelin: also Turton : 



also Say in Catal. of his Mus. 



West Indies and coasts of South America ; Dillwyn. 

 West Indies; Wood. 



Seas of South America ; shores of Brazil ; Lamarck : 

 also Roux : also Potiez and Michaud : also 

 Kiister. 



" L'Olive de Panama;" Lamarck: also Blainville. 

 South America ; Ravenel in Catalogue. 

 Panama; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 Panama ; Jay : also Woodward. 

 Mazatlan ; Melchers ! Menke. 

 La Paz, Lower California ; Lt. Green ! Grould Mss. 

 Bay of Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



Linnaeus, Dillwyn, Wood, and Lamarck are obviously in 

 an error, which has been successively copied from the former. 

 But the common name of the species, which we find in most 

 of the old authors, indicates the true habitat. 



Unfortunately none of my rambles were rewarded with a 

 specimen in any condition. Two or three were seen in the 

 fruit shanty among other shells, all of which inhabit the vi- 

 cinity of Panama. 



Two intensely colored specimens in the Mus. Amh., from 

 an unknown habitat, are 4f in. long and 2 in. wide. 



37. OSIva s 



Synonymy. 



Oliva semistriata Gray, Zool. Beech. Voy. pi. 36. f. 10. 1839. 



Siebold, Wiegm. Aivhiv. p. 210. 1839. 



Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 23. f. 01. Oct. 1850. 



Station. " Moving about by hundreds, with great rapidity, 

 in the wet sand ;" Cuminir ! Reeve. 



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