118 Panama Shells. 



131. Triton vestitiis. 



/Synonymy. 



Triton vestitus Hinds in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 21. Feb. 1844. 



- Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 20. f. 101. Aug. 1844. 



- Hinds in Voy. Sulph. Moll. pi. 4. f. 1. 2. 1844. 



Station. Among the rocks on the shore ; Hinds ! copied by 

 Reeve. 



Our specimens were obtained under stones near low water 

 mark. 

 Habitat. Real Llejos, Gulf of Nicoya, and Bay of Honda ; 



Hinds ! copied by Reeve. 

 Taboga ; C. B. A. ! 

 We obtained 4 specimens of this beautiful species. 



TRITON VESTITUS ? VAR. SENIOR. We found also near 

 Panama a shell which differs but little from the preceding. It 

 is not so deeply colored, and is lengthened by the addition of 

 another whorl, and consequently it has an additional varix. 

 The sculpture of the lower whorls is less prominent ; and the 

 shell is distorted. 



132. Ranella caelata. 



Synonymy. 



Ranclla ccelata Brod. in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 179. Oct. 1832. 



Mull. Synop. Nov. Test. Viv. p. 100. May 1836. 

 Sowb. Conch. 111. No. 8. pi. 85. f. 8. 1841. 



Reeve Conch. Syst. pi. 241. f. 8. 1842. 



semiyranosa Kiener (non Lam.) p. 19. pi. 11. f. 2. 



ca'Jafa Lam. An. sans Vert. IX. 554. No. 21. (Desh. 



Ed.) - 1843. 



Lam. An. sans Vert. III. Pt. 2. p. 697. No. 



21. (Desh. ed. tert.) - 1844. 



Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 3. f. 10. July 1844. 



According to Deshayes and to Reeve, Kiener has fallen into 

 an error in confounding with this species the R. semigranosa of 



