272 Panama Shells. VENERID.L 



443. Cytherea affinis. 



Synonymy. 



Cytherea, affinis Sowb. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. p. 45. Mar. 1835. 



Hanley Supp. Wood Ind. Test. pi. 15. f. 27. 1845 ? 



- Sowb.Thes. Conch. p. 630.No. 62. pi. 132. f. 101. 1851. 



Station. Sandy mud at a depth of 10 fathoms ; Cuming I 

 Sowerby. 



Habitat. Panama and Xipixapi ; Cuming ! Sowerby. 



Panama ; C. B. A. ! 

 10 specimens were found on the beach west of Panama. 



444. Cytherea aurantiaca. 



/Synonymy. 



Cytherea aurcmtiaca Sowb. Gen. pi. . f. 3. 1824 ? 



Reeve Conch. Syst. pi. 69, f. 3. Sept. 1841, 



- aurantia Hanley Supp. Wood Ind. Test. pi. 15. f. 20. 1845 I 

 aurantiaca Jay Catal. p. 35. Dec. 1850, 



- aurantia Sowb. Thes. Conch, p. 628. No. 58. pi. 132. 



f. 97 bis. - - 1851, 



Station. Unknown. 



Habitat. Unknown ; Sowerby : also Hanley. 



Gulf of Nicoya ; Jay. 



Mazatlan ; Lt. Green ! Mus. Essex Inst. : also 

 Gould MSS. 



Taboga ; C. B. A. I 

 We collected 3 specimens of this beautiful shell. 



445. Cytherea consanguinea. Nov. sp. 



Shell obovate, subcordate, with the ventral margin well 

 excurved : very pale straw color, with numerous yellowish 

 brown linear rays, which are more or less interrupted, and 

 which usually terminate before reaching the margin : smooth 

 and shining, with the lines of growth very minute : beaks pro- 



