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  Panama 
  Shells. 
  purpurid-e. 
  

  

  40. 
  Oliva 
  vciitilata. 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

  

  Voluta 
  ispidula 
  var. 
  /3 
  (pars) 
  Born. 
  Mus. 
  p. 
  216. 
  - 
  - 
  1780. 
  

  

  Martini 
  Conch. 
  II. 
  158. 
  pi. 
  46. 
  f. 
  488. 
  1773. 
  

  

  Oliva 
  venulata 
  Lam. 
  in 
  Ann. 
  Mas. 
  XVI. 
  313. 
  No. 
  13. 
  1810. 
  

  

  Lam. 
  An. 
  sans 
  Vert. 
  VII. 
  422. 
  No. 
  13. 
  Aug. 
  1 
  822. 
  

  

  Lam. 
  in 
  Encyc. 
  Meth. 
  pi. 
  361. 
  f. 
  5. 
  1824. 
  

  

  Desk, 
  in 
  Encyc. 
  MetL. 
  vers. 
  III. 
  650. 
  

  

  No. 
  12. 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  . 
  1832. 
  

  

  Pot. 
  et 
  Mich. 
  Gal. 
  Moll. 
  Mus. 
  Douai. 
  I. 
  

  

  472. 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  1838. 
  

  

  Kust. 
  Conch. 
  Cab. 
  pi. 
  6. 
  f. 
  5. 
  - 
  1840. 
  

  

  Lam. 
  An. 
  sans 
  Vert. 
  X. 
  611. 
  No. 
  13. 
  

  

  Desh. 
  Ed. 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  1854. 
  

  

  reticularis 
  var. 
  Reeve 
  Conch. 
  Icon. 
  pi. 
  10. 
  f. 
  166. 
  {alt. 
  

  

  cvcl.) 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  Aug. 
  1850. 
  

  

  Our 
  specimen 
  more 
  resembles 
  O. 
  splendidula 
  as 
  figured 
  in 
  

   the 
  111. 
  Conch, 
  of 
  Chenu, 
  than 
  O. 
  venulata 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  work. 
  

   "We 
  think, 
  however, 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  species, 
  which 
  is 
  figured 
  in 
  

   the 
  Encyc. 
  and 
  by 
  Reeve 
  as 
  above. 
  The 
  principal 
  dillerence 
  

   between 
  this 
  shell 
  and 
  O. 
  araneosa 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  short 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   bent 
  lines 
  of 
  the 
  former. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  Unknown. 
  

  

  Habitat.— 
  VnVnowxi', 
  Lamarck: 
  also 
  Potiez 
  and 
  Michaud. 
  

   Mazatlan 
  ; 
  Melchers 
  ! 
  Menke. 
  

   La 
  Paz 
  ; 
  Lt. 
  Green 
  ! 
  G-ould 
  Mss. 
  

   Bay 
  of 
  Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

  

  Duclos 
  (in 
  Chenu) 
  says 
  of 
  his 
  O. 
  venulata., 
  which 
  proba- 
  

   bly 
  belongs 
  to 
  a 
  different 
  species 
  from 
  ours, 
  " 
  Habite 
  la 
  mer 
  

   des 
  Indes." 
  In 
  the 
  fruit 
  shanty 
  we 
  found 
  1 
  specimen 
  among 
  

   other 
  shells, 
  all 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  inhabit 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  

   Panama. 
  

  

  