THE NAUTILUS. 65 



THE NOMENCLATURE OF HARPA. 



BY CHARLES HEDLKY. 



Australian Museum, Sydney, N. S. Wales. 



Application of the law of priority to the genus Harpa is attended 

 with the usual wreckage of familiar names. Not having observed 

 any recent adjustment of this nomenclature, I offer the following 

 notes : 



The generic name of Harpa, as Dr. W. H. Dall has pointed out 

 (Journ. of Conch., XI, 1906, p. 296), should be ascribed to Bolten 

 (Mus. Bolt. [2], 1798, p. 149), not as in Fisher's Manual, to 

 Rumphius, who was prenomial, or to Lamarck, who was a year later. 



According to Hanley's examination of Linnean types (Ipsa Linn. 

 Conch., 1855, p. 251), Harpa nobilis Lamarck, usurps the place of 

 Buccinum harpa Linn., which should become Harpa harpa Linn. 

 Yet most writers followed Lamarck in reducing Buccinum harpa to 

 the synonymy of Harpa ventricosa Lamarck. 



Hanley continues to show that by Buccinum costatum Linn, is 

 meant Harpa imperialis Lamarck. Deshayes (An. s. vert., X, 

 1844, p. 129, footnote) had already censured Lamarck for his super- 

 fluous name, and recommended the restoration of Harpa costata 

 Linn. 



Bolten was the first to separate binomially the species that Linn 

 had confused. For one of these, illustrated by Martini, figure 

 1090, he proposed (op. cit., p. 149) the name Harpa major. 

 Lamarck later included the same figure of Martini in the synonymy 

 of the species he proposed to call Harpa ventricosa. 



Similarly for the species illustrated in the Conchylien Cabinet by 

 fig. 1092, Bolten proposed Harpa davidis, and for the same Lamarck 

 subsequently introduced Harpa articularis. 



Again, to the shell shown by Martini in fig. 1094, Bolten gave 

 the name of Harpa doris, for which Lamarck afterwards substituted 

 Harpa rosea. 



Finally, Bolten gave the name of Harpa amouretta to a species 

 illustrated by his predecessors, figure 1097. This later served to 

 express the Harpa minor of Lamarck. 



Suter (Deutsch. Malak. Ges. Jahrbuch, IV, 1877, p. 129), 

 divided the genus into sixteen recent species. These Tryon re- 



