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  Panama 
  Shells. 
  

  

  PURPURID^. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  DredgeJ 
  as 
  solitary 
  shells 
  in 
  from 
  3 
  to 
  14 
  fathoms 
  

   among 
  mnd 
  ; 
  Hinds 
  ! 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Panama, 
  and 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Fonseca 
  ; 
  Hinds 
  ! 
  

   Panama 
  ; 
  Jay. 
  

   Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

  

  "We 
  obtained 
  only 
  1 
  dead 
  specimen. 
  

  

  58. 
  Buccmuni 
  distortuni. 
  

  

  Synor<y7ny. 
  

  

  Buccinum 
  disforium 
  Bligli 
  Catal. 
  No. 
  64. 
  (not 
  described.) 
  May 
  1822. 
  

  

  Wood 
  Ind. 
  Test. 
  Supp. 
  pi. 
  4. 
  f. 
  1. 
  1828. 
  

  

  Kiener 
  Iconog. 
  p. 
  43. 
  pi. 
  18. 
  f. 
  64, 
  65. 
  

  

  FolUa 
  dutorta 
  Gray 
  in 
  Zool. 
  Beech. 
  Voy. 
  p. 
  112. 
  1839. 
  

  

  ColumhcUa 
  tniimphalis 
  Duel, 
  in 
  Chenu. 
  111. 
  Conch, 
  pi. 
  5. 
  f. 
  13-16. 
  1843. 
  

   Buccinum 
  distortum 
  Desh. 
  in 
  Lara. 
  An. 
  sans 
  Vert. 
  X. 
  p. 
  192. 
  

  

  No. 
  '70. 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  - 
  1844. 
  

   Reeve 
  Conch. 
  Icon. 
  pi. 
  11. 
  f. 
  86. 
  Dec. 
  1846. 
  

  

  Kiener 
  has 
  figured 
  as 
  the 
  young 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  f. 
  65, 
  a 
  

   variety 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  revolution 
  of 
  the 
  whorls 
  is 
  more 
  oblique, 
  

   and 
  which, 
  when 
  full 
  grown, 
  has 
  the 
  last 
  whorl 
  only 
  mode- 
  

   rately 
  shouldered, 
  like 
  the 
  young 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  type. 
  We 
  

   obtained 
  only 
  two 
  specimens 
  of 
  this 
  variety. 
  Deshayes 
  has 
  

   well 
  described 
  the 
  varying 
  characters 
  of 
  this 
  remarkable 
  

   species. 
  

  

  The 
  epidermis 
  is 
  thick, 
  rather 
  coarse 
  and 
  brown, 
  and 
  en- 
  

   tirely 
  conceals 
  the 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  shell. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  We 
  found 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  crevices 
  of 
  rocks, 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  the 
  low 
  water 
  mark 
  of 
  the 
  neap 
  tides 
  and 
  

   that 
  of 
  the 
  spring 
  tides. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Unknown; 
  Wood. 
  

  

  New 
  Holland 
  ; 
  Kiener. 
  

   Chili 
  ; 
  Deshayes 
  : 
  also 
  Jay. 
  

   St. 
  Elena 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  I 
  Reeve. 
  

  

  