68 Panama Shells. PURPURID^E. 



Station. Dredged as solitary shells in from 3 to 14 fathoms 

 among mud ; Hinds ! 



Habitat. Panama, and G-ulf of Fonseca ; Hinds ! 

 Panama ; Jay. 

 Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



We obtained only 1 dead specimen. 



58. Hiiccinum distorting. 



Synonymy. 



Bucclnum distortum Bligb. Catal. No. 64. (not described.) May 1822. 



Wood Ind. Test. Supp. pi. 4. f. 7. 1828. 



Kieuer Iconog. p. 43. pi. 18. f. 64, 65. 



Pollia distorta Gray in Zool. Beech. Voy. p. 112. 1839. 



Columbclla triumphalis Duel, in Chenu. 111. Conch, pi. 5. f. 13-16. 1843. 

 Buccinum distortum Desh. in Lam. An. sans Vert. X. p. 192. 



No. 70. 1844. 



Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 11. f. 86. Dec. 1846. 



Kiener has figured as the young of this species, f. 65, a 

 variety in which the revolution of the whorls is more oblique, 

 and which, when full grown, has the last whorl only mode- 

 rately shouldered, like the young of the common type. We 

 obtained only two specimens of this variety. Deshayes has 

 well described the varying characters of this remarkable 

 species. 



The epidermis is thick, rather coarse and brown, and en- 

 tirely conceals the color of the shell. 



Station. We found this species in the crevices of rocks, be- 

 tween the low water mark of the neap tides and 

 that of the spring tides. 



Habitat. Unknown; Wood. 



New Holland ; Kiener. 

 Chili ; Deshayes : also Jay. 

 St. Elena ; Cuming ! Reeve. 



