BUCCINUM. Panama Shells. 71 



The name originally given to this species by Kiener had 

 been preoccupied by Brocchi in 1814 for a fossil species. 



Station. Probably below extreme low water mark. Our 

 specimens were collected at low water mark, 

 where they were occupied by hermit crabs. 



Habitat. The South Sea, on the shores of California ; Edoux ! 



Kiener. 



Seas of California ; Deshayes. 

 St. Elena ; [? Curaing !] Reeve. 

 Mazatlan ; Melchers ! Menke. 

 San Bias; Dr. J. L. Burtt, U. S. N. ! Mus. Acad. 



Nat. So. Philadelphia. 

 Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



The California of the French authors is probably Lower 

 California. On the reef at Panama, we obtained 1 perfect 

 specimen, which is 2 inches long, and 5 others more or less 

 imperfect. In two large old shells the labrum is much thick- 

 ened but not deeply serrated. A magnificent specimen has 

 been presented to the Acad. Nat. So. Phil, by Dr. Burtt, who 

 found it at San Bias : it is 3| in. long. 



63. BncciiiuiBi riaag-ens. 

 Synonymy. 



Buctinum ringens Reeve (non Phil.) Conch. Icon. pi. 7. 



f - 45 - Dec. 1846. 



In the Zeitschr. Malak, 1851, p. 59, Dr. Phillippi has in- 

 advertently repeated this name for another species. 



Station. On the rocks at low water ; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 We found this species chiefly under stones about 

 the low water mark of neap tides. 



Habitat. Panama; Cuming! Reeve. 



