CYPR.EA. Panama Shells. 33 



Cyprcca arabicula Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 534. No. 54. Desh. 



Ed. 1844. 



Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 13. f. 60. Dec. 1845. 



One of our specimens, which is large and very deeply col- 

 ored, has the dark brown dorsal lines so confluent, as to re- 

 semble C. reticulata. It is 1.37 inch long. 



Station. Under stones; Cuming! Reeve. 



Our specimens were under stones, which were from about 

 eight to twenty inches in diameter, at and just below the 

 low water mark of the neap tides. 



Habitat. Western shores of Mexico, at Acapulco ; Hum- 



boldt & Bonpland ! Lamarlc. 

 South Seas; Wood. 



Acapulco; Humboldt & Bonpland ! Valenciennes. 

 Brazil ; Ravenel in Catalogue. 

 St. Elena and Real Llejos ; Sowerby. 

 Mexico ; Gray. 



Western shores of Mexico, near Acapulco ; Kiener. 

 St. Elena ; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 Mazatlan ; Melchers ! Menke. 

 St. Elena ; Jay. 

 Panama ; C. B. A ! 

 We collected 7 specimens on the reef. 



7. Cyprsea cervinetta. 



Synonymy. 



Cyprcea exanthema var. a. Gray in Zool. Journ. I. 139. - 1825. 



var. |8, " " " 1825. 

 cervinetta Kiener Iconog. p. 74. pi. 6. f. 1. 2. 



Desh. in Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 547. 



No. 71. 1844. 



exanih'ma Hinds in Voy Sulph. p. 6 - - - 1845. 



cervus var. Reeve Conch. Icon. Nov. 1844. 



Mr. Reeve regards this species as merely a variety of C. cer- 

 vus, and has well described its peculiarities of color. But the 



