216 Panama Shells. HALIOTID^, 



Family— VERMBTID-iE. 



323. Termetus g^lomeratus ? 



Synonymy. 



( Serpula glomerata Var. 6. (alt. excl.) Lam. An. sans 



Vert. V. 363. No. 6. - - July 1818. 



Var. b. (alt. excl.) Lam. An. sans 



Vert. V. 619. No. 6. (Desh. ed,)' , ' " .1838. 

 Vermetus glomeratus Rousseau jn Chenii, 111. Conch. J>1., 2. f. 2. 1843. 

 ■ centiquadrus ? Ya\. Voy. Venus. Moll, pi, 11. if. 1. 1846. , 



Station. — Attached by a small part of the spiral portion of 

 the shells to rocks and stones near the low water mark of neap 

 tides. 



Habitat. — Mazatlan ; Melchers I Menke. 



Panama ; C. B. A. I 

 We collected 25 specimens on the reef. 



324. Ycrmetus Panamensis. ...j. . . 



Synonyiny. 

 Vermetus Panamensis Rousseau in Chenu. 111. Conch, pi. 5. f. 1. 1843. 



Station. — In the same situations as V. glomeratus, attached 

 on one side of all the whorls. 



Habitat. — Panama ; C. B. A. I 



10 specimens were collected. 



Of these two species of Vermetus, a much larger number of 

 specimens might have been collected, with some ,a4ditional 

 labor in carefully detaching them from the ijpcks.,, 



Family— HALIOTIDiE. , 



326. Stomatella inflata. Nov. sp. 



Shell very obliquely elliptical ; white, thick and opaque 

 anteriorly, above thinner and translucent: with very fine irre- 



