TURBO. Panama Shells. 195 

 261. Turbo Buschii. 



Synonymy. 



Trochus Buschii Phil. Abbild. I. pi. 3. f. 3. 4. Jan. 1844. 

 - Kiist. Conch. Cab. pi. 32. f. 1. 1849 

 inermis Kiener Iconog. pi. 14. f. 2. 1851. 



According to Dr. Pbilippi, this species is commonly mistaken 

 for T. inermis. Kiener has figured the Panama shell as T. 

 inermis, and a very different species as T. Busehii; v. pi. 31. f. 1, 

 On account of the solid calcareous operculnm, we have removed 

 the species into Turbo. 



Station. On or under stones between the low water mark of 

 the neap tides and that of the spring tides. 



Habitat, Panama ; Philippi. 



Panama ; E. Jewett ! Gould MSS. 



Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



We collected 180 specimens on the reef. 

 Dr. Philippi cites Von dem Busch as authority for the 

 habitat, but not, we suppose, as original testimony. 



282. Turtoo (?) phasianella. Nov. sp. ? 



Shell ovate conoid : color various, mostly red or brown, some- 

 times uniform, frequently in dark flammules on a light ground, 

 sometimes with spiral darker stripes or series of spots : surface 

 covered with strong spiral striae : apex subacute : spire conoid, 

 with the outlines mojderately curvilinear : whorls five, convex ? 

 with a distinct suture : aperture broad ovate, subeffuse : labrum 

 thin : umbilicus very small. 



Mean divergence about 64 ; length .16 inch ; breadth .11 

 inch ; length of spire .08 inch. 



Operculum calcareous, very thick and solid. But for the 

 want of a polished surface, this species would have been referred 

 to Phasianella. It may be a Trochus. It may be Littorina 

 phasianella Phil, in Zeitschr. Malak. 1848. p. 149. 



