ME.S.HANLEY ON THE LINNEAN MS. OF THE ' MUSEUM ULRICjE.' 67 



Testa ovato-cylindrica, glabra. Spira convexo-conica, mucronata. Co- 

 lumella multum torta. Color lividus, longitudinaliter griseo undulatus. 



This evidently was a very different shell from the four-plaited, pale pink, 

 and often variegated specimen described in the printed copy. The de- 

 scription of the outer lip, the name, and the terms "solida", "laevigata, 

 obsoletior " were, likewise, additions of the press. 



B. CANALicuLATA. B. cyliudrica laevis, spirae anfractibus canaliculatis. 



The entire account of this species was added to the manuscript in the 

 Linnean handwriting. 



B. ACHATiNA. Buc. glabrum, apertura integra. 



"Colum. Aphr. 18. t. 16" was the omitted synonym : " vel inaequaliter 

 ovata" and the entire account of the base (merely described as "vix mani- 

 feste emarginata") were the printed additions. 



B. AuRis-MiDiB. Morion ovali-oblongum, spira rugosa, labio inte- 

 riore bidentato. 



Figure 122 of Klein's seventh plate was correctly quoted as illustrative : 

 " crudae " preceded *' niger.'' 



B. AuRis-JuDiE. Morion oblongus, spira laevi, labio interiore tri- 

 dentato. 



B. SOLID ULA. B. ovata opaca striata, spira elevata. 



I do not doubt, from the " ovata", that Tornatella flammea was the shell 

 originally here intended ; for the inharmonious account of the inner lip 

 (as well as of the outer one) was not found in the manuscript, — from which, 

 too, the erroneous reference to Bonanni was at first absent. The " acuti- 

 uscula" was " obtusiuscula " : the " postice rotundata, autice acuta" was 

 an improvement upon the earlier " pone gibba." 



B. LiviDA. B. spira elevata obtusa, corpore cylindrico. 



This heading makes no mention of the columellar plication of the shell 

 so named in the ' Systema,' and confirms my surmise of their distinctive- 

 ness. The name livida was not originally attached to the description, but 

 had been added (together with " obsoletis ") by Linnaeus, from a mistaken 

 identification. 



There has evidently been some error in the comparison with Voluta Caffra. 

 I suspect that Conus bullatus was meant, as the contrasting characters 

 answer admirably. " Differt a B. pallida et livida, quod testa solida — an- 

 fractus spirae canaliculati ". This passage shows that " fragilis et spirae 

 anfractus obtusae " referred to livida, not to Caffra. 



VOLUTA. 



Testa oblonga, subconvexa, basi emarginata, replicata in canalem rec- 

 tum. Columella plicata oblique. Labio integro. 



The genus appears to comprehend precisely the same members as in the 

 published edition. They were arranged in se<itions exactly corresponding 

 with the Lamarckian genera of Oliva, Voluta, Mitra, and Marginella. 



V. PORPHYRIA. V. spira basi obliterata, labio medio retuso. 



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