﻿NATICA. 
  Panama 
  Shells. 
  425 
  

  

  exploration 
  of 
  a 
  limited 
  field, 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  but 
  little 
  leisure 
  

   from 
  other 
  pursuits 
  may 
  add 
  much 
  to 
  science. 
  

  

  295. 
  ]¥atica 
  Chemiiitzii. 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

  

  The 
  synonymy 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  overlooked 
  until 
  too 
  late 
  

   to 
  be 
  completed. 
  With 
  the 
  partial 
  data 
  now 
  before 
  us, 
  it 
  

   appears 
  to 
  be 
  Pfeiflfer's 
  N. 
  Chemnitzii^ 
  which, 
  and 
  N. 
  imifasciata 
  

   Lam., 
  and 
  N. 
  lurida 
  Phil., 
  were 
  included 
  by 
  Koch 
  (Zeitschr. 
  

   fiir 
  Malak. 
  1844. 
  p. 
  154) 
  in 
  the 
  Chemnitzian 
  species 
  N. 
  maroc- 
  

   cana, 
  the 
  iV! 
  marochiensis 
  of 
  Gmelin, 
  not 
  of 
  Lamarck. 
  Proba- 
  

   bly 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  N. 
  maroccana 
  of 
  Menke 
  in 
  his 
  catalogue 
  of 
  Mazat- 
  

   lan 
  shells, 
  in 
  Zeitschr. 
  fiir 
  Malak. 
  1847, 
  p. 
  179. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  On 
  soft 
  mud 
  near 
  low 
  water 
  mark. 
  

  

  Habitat. 
  — 
  Mazatlan 
  ; 
  Melchers 
  ! 
  Menke. 
  

  

  Guaymas 
  ; 
  Lt. 
  Green 
  ! 
  Mus. 
  Essex 
  Inst. 
  : 
  also 
  Gould 
  

  

  MSS. 
  

   Panama 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

   We 
  collected 
  60 
  specimens 
  at 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  beach 
  next 
  

   east 
  of 
  Panama. 
  

  

  296. 
  ]¥atica 
  lurida 
  ! 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

   Natica 
  lurida 
  (?) 
  Phil, 
  in 
  Kiist. 
  Conch. 
  Cab. 
  

  

  Station. 
  — 
  Unknown. 
  

   Habitat— 
  "Tsihogti 
  ; 
  C. 
  B. 
  A. 
  ! 
  

   8 
  specimens 
  were 
  collected. 
  

  

  297. 
  ]¥atica 
  otis. 
  

  

  Synonymy. 
  

  

  Natica 
  Otis 
  Brod. 
  and 
  Sowb. 
  in 
  Zool. 
  Journ. 
  IV. 
  372. 
  1829. 
  

  

  Gray 
  in 
  Zool. 
  Beech. 
  Voy. 
  pi. 
  34. 
  f. 
  13. 
  1839. 
  

  

  Kust. 
  Conch. 
  Cab. 
  pi. 
  9. 
  f. 
  4. 
  1850. 
  

  

  JULY, 
  1852. 
  37 
  Ann. 
  Ltc. 
  Nat. 
  HiBT. 
  

  

  