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  Panama 
  Shells. 
  PURPURID^. 
  

  

  Station.— 
  JJnder 
  stones 
  ] 
  Cuming! 
  Sowerby. 
  Our 
  specimens 
  

   were 
  found 
  under 
  stones 
  near 
  low 
  water 
  mark. 
  

  

  Habitat— 
  1. 
  of 
  Muerte 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  ! 
  Sowerby 
  : 
  also 
  Miiller. 
  

   Seas 
  of 
  Soutb 
  America 
  ; 
  Deshayes. 
  

   Central 
  America 
  ; 
  Jay. 
  

   Mazatlan 
  ; 
  Lt. 
  Green 
  ! 
  Gould 
  MSS. 
  : 
  also 
  Mus. 
  

  

  Essex 
  Inst. 
  

   Panama 
  ; 
  E. 
  Jewett 
  ! 
  Gould 
  MSS. 
  

   Taboga; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A.I 
  

   We 
  obtained 
  30 
  specimens, 
  most 
  of 
  which 
  were 
  taken 
  

   alive. 
  They 
  are 
  more 
  intensely 
  colored 
  than 
  Mr. 
  Sowerby's 
  

   figure, 
  and 
  several 
  have 
  the 
  spire 
  more 
  elevated. 
  

  

  95. 
  Coluiiibella 
  modesta. 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

  

  Buccinum 
  modestum 
  Powis 
  in 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc. 
  Lond, 
  p. 
  94. 
  June 
  1835. 
  

  

  Reeve 
  Conch. 
  Icon. 
  pi. 
  4. 
  f. 
  19. 
  Dec. 
  1846. 
  

  

  Columbella 
  modesta 
  Gould 
  MSS. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  Muddy 
  gravel 
  at 
  a 
  depth 
  ranging 
  from 
  7 
  to 
  17 
  

   fathoms 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  ! 
  Powis 
  ; 
  also 
  Eeeve. 
  

  

  Our 
  specimens 
  were 
  brought 
  up 
  by 
  hermit 
  crabs, 
  which 
  

   frequented 
  rocks, 
  and 
  were 
  especially 
  numerous 
  about 
  a 
  pile 
  of 
  

   railroad 
  iron 
  lying 
  in 
  the 
  soft 
  ooze 
  not 
  far 
  above 
  low 
  water 
  

   mark. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Bay 
  of 
  Montija 
  ; 
  Cuming 
  ! 
  Powis 
  : 
  also 
  Eeeve. 
  

  

  West 
  Columbia 
  ; 
  Jay. 
  

  

  Santa 
  Barbara 
  ; 
  E. 
  Jewett 
  ! 
  Gould 
  MSS. 
  

  

  Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

   We 
  collected 
  80 
  specimens, 
  mostly 
  in 
  good 
  condition. 
  

  

  96. 
  Columbella 
  lucesta. 
  Nov. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Shell 
  slender, 
  subfusiform: 
  black, 
  or 
  brownish 
  black, 
  with 
  

   the 
  color 
  less 
  intense 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  whorl 
  : 
  upper 
  

  

  