94 Panama Shells. pubpubid^. 



Station. — Under stones ; Cuming 1 Sowerby. Our specimens 

 were found under stones near low water mark. 



Habitat. — I. of Muerte ; Cuming 1 Sowerby : also Milller. 

 Seas of Soutli America ; Deshayes. 

 Central America ; Jay. 

 Mazatlan ; Lt. Green 1 Gould MSS. : also Mus. 



Essex Inst. 

 Panama ; E. Jewett I Gould MSS. 

 Taboga; 0. B. A.I 

 We obtained 80 specimens, most of which were taken 

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

 figure, and several have the spire more elevated. 



95. Coliinibella inodesta. 



Synonymy. 



Bucdnum 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 I 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. I 

 We collected 80 specimens, mostly in good condition. 



96. Columbella mcBsta. Nov. sp. 



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

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



