CASSIS. Panama Shells. 103 



Unknown ; Kiener. 

 Acapulco ; Reeve. 

 Panama ; C. B. A. ! 

 7 specimens were found. Bonanni is undoubtedly in error. 



ill. Cassis coarctata. 



Synonymy. 



Cassis coarctata Sowb. Tank. Catal. No. 1826. p. 21. 1825. 



Buccinum coarctatum Wood. Ind. Test. Supp. pi. 4. f. 5. 1828. 



Cassis coarctata Valenc. in Humb. Rec. Obs. II. 313. 1833. 



Kiener Iconog. p. 19. pi. 8. f. 15. 



Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 40. No. 



27. Desh. Ed. 1844. 



Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 6. f. 14. Aug. 1848. 



Station. In crevices of rocks ; Cuming ! Eeeve. 



Habitat. "We believe it to be a New Zealand shell;" 



Sowerby. 



Unknown ; Wood. 



Acapulco ; Humboldt & Bonpland ! Valenciennes. 

 The shores of Peru, at Acapulco ; Kiener. 

 The shores of Peru, at Acapulco ; Deshayes. 

 Gallapago Is. ; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 Mazatlan ; Melchers ! Menke. 

 Peru, Acapulco ; Jay. 



Lower California ; Major Rich ! Gould MSS. 

 San Juan, in Lower California ; Lt. Green ! Gould 



MSS. also Museum of Essex Inst. 

 Taboga ; C. B. A. ! 



We obtained one dead, but nearly perfect specimen. 

 In copying Kiener's statement, Deshayes has partly, and 

 Dr. Jay has wholly, dropped its absurdity. It does not, how- 

 ever, appear obvious, whether Kiener intended to name two 

 habitats, or to say that Acapulco is in Peru ! Compare, how- 

 ever, his description of the habitat of Dolium ringens above. 



