BucciNUM. Panama Shells. ^fi 



The name originally given to this species by Kiener had 

 been preoccupied by Brooohi in 1814 for a fossil species. 



Station. — Probably below extreme low water mark. Our 

 specimens were collected at low water mark, 

 where they were occupied by hermit crabs. 



Habitat. — The South Sea, on the shores of California ; Edoux ! 

 Kiener. 

 Seas of California ; Deshayes. 

 St. Elena ; [? Cuming !] Reeve. 

 ' ' Mazatlan ; Melohers ! Menke. 



San Bias ; Dr. J. L. Burtt, U. S. N. ! Mus. Acad. 



Nat. So. Philadelphia. , 

 Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



The California of ,the French authors is probably Lower 

 California. On the reef at Panama, we obtained 1 perfect 

 specimen, which is 2^- inches long, and 5 others more or less 

 imperfect. In two large old shells the labrum is much thick- 

 ened but not deeply serrated. A magnificent specimen has 

 been presented to the Acad. Nat. So. Phil, by Dr. Burtt, who 

 found it at San Bias : it is 3j in. long. 



63. Buccinum ringens. 



St/nonymy. 



Buccinum ringens Beevo (non Phil.) Conch. Icon. pi. V. 



f. 46. - - - - Doc. 1840. 



In the Zeitschr. Malak, 1851, p. 59, Dr. Phillippi has in- 

 advertently repeated this name for another species. 



Station. — On the rooks at low v^ater ; Cuming ! Reeve. 

 We found this species chiefly under stones about 

 the low water mark of neap tides. 



Habitat. — Panama ; Cuming ! Reeve. 



