22 DR. p. p. CARPENTER ON THE SIIELTvS OF PANAMA. 



342. Cahjpfr(ea llvnrpiis, C. B. A(\ . =i Crucibulum spinosum, jnn, 

 (not Galerus irnf/vis, IJrocL). 



313. Crepithila cerilhiicola. Most of the specimens are the young 

 of C. onyx, JM. 340 ; but a few are of G. incurva, M. 331). 



344. Crepidula echinus^=G. aculeata, M. 334. 



345. Crepidula excavata, M. 33/. 



34G. Crepidula 1 hepatica=^C. onyx, M. 340. 



317. Crepidula incurva, M. 339. A very interesting series of 

 specimens; of which two or three are probably the tw>sted form of 

 C. onyx. One tray contains specimens adhering to other shells. 

 One, fixed diagonally on a Catliostoma, takes exactly the arrow- 

 headed sculpture of the var. Cat. imhricata, Brod. Another, grown 

 diagonally on Pisania gemmata, has the general asj)ect of a Chiton. 

 One, fixed on the back of its neighbour which has grown on a Cal- 

 liostoma, has the granular interru])tions of the ribs transmitted 

 throuyh the first specimen. The same is true of one which has 

 grown on another which was planted on a Pisania. One specimen, 

 which had established itself on a Calliostoma, and began with normal 

 ribs, is losing these at the margin, adopting the sculpture of the 

 Trochid. An extremely twisted specimen in the tray of separate 

 shells has a bifid deck. A young one had edged itself into the apical 

 part of the deck, as into a maternal pouch ; so the old one made a 

 fresh deck over it. 



348. Crepidula lessonii. Most of the specimens are of C. nivea, 

 var., M. 341. Two shells, which have the apex perfect, display the 

 characteristic nuclear riblets. One dark-coloured specimen may be 

 a hybrid, and another (though too much worn for confident atHlia- 

 tiou) aj)pears to be C. nnguiforniis. Among the duplicates, all the 

 specimens which were perfect at the apex ])rcsented the niveoid 

 nucleus, though white ; but generally the riblets were more or less 

 worn off. 



349. Crepidula squama. These are the flat form (mostly dead 

 and worn) of C. nivea, M. 341. Some of them pass into lessonii. 

 Some are highly coloured, and may be the young of C. onyx ; one 

 even of C. incurva. One of the young shells in })hial appears to be 

 C. onyx ; but whenever the apex is perfect, it presents the typical 

 riblets : v. Maz. Cat. in loco. 



3.50. Crepidula unguifornns. The apex being hidden in dead 

 shells, which I was not at liberty to break away, I could only exa- 

 mine one specimen, which appeared to be a C. nivea, var., as sup- 

 posed in Maz. Cat. p. 28.5. Of the loose specimens, scarcely any 

 are sufficiently perfect at the apex to speak with confidence. Most 

 of them, however, have the characteristic painting of the variety 

 squama ; and all may belong to the common species {C. nivea), ex- 

 cept one which is a true C. unguiformis, M. 342, on the back of 

 another sliell, and a few which are prol)ably C. onyx, var. Ot tl^e 

 d'!j)licates, wliicli I was at liberty to extract from tlie dead shells, 



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