CYPR^A. 



Panama Shells. 33 



Cyprcea arabieula Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 634. No. 64. Desh. 



Ed. - - 1844. 



. Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 13. f. 60. - Dec. 1845. 



One of our specimens, which is large and very deeply col- 

 ored, has the dark brown dorsal lines so confluent, as to re- 

 semble C. reticulata. It is 1.37 inch long. 

 Station. — Under stones; Cuming! Reeve. 

 Our specimens were under stones, which were from about 

 eight to twenty inches in diameter, at and just beloW the 

 low water mark of the neap tides.* 



Habitat. — "Western shores of Mexico, at Acapuloo ; Hum- 

 boldt & Bonpland ! Lamark. 

 South Seas; Wood. 



Acapuloo ; Humboldt & Bonpland ! Valenciennes. 

 Brazil ; Ravenel in Catalogue. 

 St. Elena and Real Llejos ; Sowerby. 

 Mexico ; Gray. 



Western shores of Mexico, near Agapulco ; Kiener. 

 St. Elena ; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 Mazatlan ; Melohers ! Menke. 

 St. Elena ; Jay. 

 Panama ; C. B. A ! 

 We collected 7 specimens on the reef. 



"7. Cypraea cerTinetta. 



Synonymy. 



Cypraea exanthema var. « Gray in Zool. Journ. I. 139. 1825. 



var. p, " « « 1826. 



eervinetta Kiener Iconog. p. 74. pi. 6. f. 1. 2. 



i Desh. in Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 647. 



No. VI. - - . - 1844. 



■■ — exanthema Hinds in Voy Sulph. p. 6 - - - 1846. 



cervus var. Keeve Conch. Icon. - Nov. 1844. 



Mr. Reeve regards this species as merely a variety of C. cer- 

 vus, and has well described its peculiarities of color. But the 

 



