CYPR^A. Panama Shells. 35 



"We collected 115 specimens, mostly on the reef at Pana- 

 ma, but partly at Taboga. 



8. Cypraea punctalata. 



Synonymy. 



Cyproea punctulata GtxxjTiOoX. 3 omn.l.Zil. - 1825. 



Gray Descr. Catal. p. 10. No. 86. June 1832. 



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



I. 484. pi. 36. f. 11, 12. - 1838- 



Sowb. Conch. 111. pi. 4. f. 20. - 1841. 



Kiener Iconog. p. 114. pi. 21. f. 2. 



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



663. No. 92. - - - - 1844. 

 ReeveConch.Icon.pl. 13. f. 61. - - Dec. 1845. 



'^ Specimens differ in size and color. Very elegant light 

 colored specimens occur rarely. One shell is 1.3 inch long 

 and .88 inch wide ; another ia .7 inch long and .48 inch wide. 



Station. — Under stones ; Cuming ! Reeve. 



We found it with G. arabicula, which see. 



Habitat. — Unknown ; Potiez and Michaud. 



Panama ; Cuming ! Sowerby : also Reeve. 



New Holland ; Gray. 



Shores of Peru and of New Holland ; Kiener. 



Panama ; Deshayes : also Jay. 



Panama, and I. of Taboga ; C. B A ! 

 Gray and Kiener must be in error in citing New Holland as 

 a habitat of this species. We collected 335 specimens, mostly 

 on the reef at Panama, and partly at Taboga. 



9. Cypraea pnstulata. 



Synonomy. 



Lister Conch, t. VlO. f. 62. - - 1678. 



Schrot. Einl. Conch. I. 146. - - 1783- 



Oyprcea pusiulala Lam. Ann. Mus. XVL 101. No. 50. - 1810. 



