﻿oLivA. 
  Panama 
  Shells. 
  277 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Unknown 
  ; 
  Linnseus, 
  1758. 
  

  

  Brazil 
  ; 
  Linnaeus, 
  1767 
  : 
  also 
  Grmelin: 
  also 
  Turton 
  : 
  

  

  also 
  Say 
  in 
  Catal. 
  of 
  his 
  Mus. 
  

   West 
  Indies 
  and 
  coasts 
  of 
  South 
  America 
  ; 
  Dillwyn. 
  

   "West 
  Indies; 
  Wood. 
  

  

  Seas 
  of 
  South 
  America 
  ; 
  shores 
  of 
  Brazil 
  ; 
  Lamarck 
  : 
  

   also 
  Roux 
  : 
  also 
  Potiez 
  and 
  Michaud 
  : 
  also 
  

   Kiister. 
  

   " 
  L'Olive 
  de 
  Panama;" 
  Lamarck 
  : 
  also 
  Blainville. 
  

   South 
  America 
  ; 
  Rav(niel 
  in 
  Catalogue. 
  

   Panama; 
  Cuming! 
  Reeve. 
  

   Panama 
  ; 
  Jay 
  : 
  also 
  Woodward. 
  

   Mazatlan 
  ; 
  Melche,rs 
  ! 
  Menke. 
  

  

  La 
  Paz, 
  Lower 
  California 
  ; 
  Lt. 
  Green 
  ! 
  Grould 
  Mss. 
  

   Bay 
  of 
  Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

  

  Linnaeus, 
  Dillwyn, 
  Wood, 
  and 
  Lamarck 
  are 
  obviously 
  in 
  

   an 
  error, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  successively 
  copied 
  from 
  the 
  former. 
  

   But 
  the 
  coinmon 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  species, 
  which 
  we 
  find 
  in 
  most 
  

   of 
  the 
  old 
  authors, 
  indicates 
  the 
  true 
  habitat. 
  

  

  Unfortunately 
  none 
  of 
  my 
  rambles 
  were 
  rewarded 
  with 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  in 
  any 
  condition. 
  Two 
  or 
  three 
  were 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  

   fruit 
  shanty 
  among 
  other 
  shells, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  inhabit 
  the 
  vi- 
  

   cinity 
  of 
  Panama. 
  

  

  Two 
  intensely 
  colored 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  Mus. 
  Amh., 
  from 
  

   an 
  unknown 
  habitat, 
  are 
  4f 
  in. 
  long 
  and 
  2 
  in. 
  wide. 
  

  

  37. 
  OliFa 
  8eaui§ti*iata. 
  

  

  St/nont/mi/. 
  

  

  Oliva 
  semistriata 
  Gray, 
  Zool. 
  Beech. 
  Voj. 
  pi. 
  36. 
  f. 
  10. 
  1839. 
  

  

  Siebold, 
  Wiegm. 
  Archiv. 
  p. 
  210. 
  1839. 
  

  

  Reeve 
  Conch. 
  Icon. 
  pi. 
  23. 
  f. 
  61. 
  Oct. 
  1850. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  " 
  Moving 
  about 
  by 
  hundreds, 
  with 
  great 
  rapidity, 
  

   in 
  the 
  wet 
  sand 
  ;" 
  Cuming 
  I 
  Reeve. 
  

  

  