68 ME. S. HA NLET ON THE LINNEAN MS. OF THE ' MUSEUM ULEICiE.' 



Linnaeus spoilt his excellent earlier description by his attempted emen- 

 dations. The interpolated " Faux sajpius rufescens " (misprinted virescens), 

 and the reference to Gualtieri's figure O. (0. erythrostoma), formed no part 

 of the original version. 



The *' Varietas fere sola est V. Olivee " was an afterthought. 



V. Oliva. V. spirae basi reflexa. 



The synonyms were thus distributed. To var a, Rumph. t. 39. f, 2, and 

 Gualt. t. 23. f. B ; to var. ff, Rumph. t. 39. f. 3; to var. e, Arg. t. 16. 

 f. R ; to var. d (" Caesius atro-undatus," not " Fusco undulatus " as printed), 

 Rumph. t. 39. f. 4. The expressions " ponderosa " and " magis sulcatum '* 

 were not in the original. 



V. IspiDULA. V. spira adscendente, margine unico. 



" Pet. Gaz. t. 59. f. 8," cited in the * Systema/ was also written in the 

 manuscript : not so the " Varietas forte praecedentis V. Oliva.'* None 

 of the drawings exhibit the produced spire, which must have resembled 

 that of O.jaspidea. The earlier name was ispida. 



V. GLABELLA. V. ovata laevis, labii margine reflexo, basi rotundata. 



The reference to Gualtieri(a doubtful figure) was not or ginally inserted. 

 The intended name was V. polita. 



V. Caffra. V. fusiformis laevis. 



The absurdity of asserting, in relation to this and the next species, that 

 each resembled the other, but was larger, arose from the circumstance that 

 when our author, in revising the labours of his amanuensis, added " sed 

 major," he omitted to erase it from the following species. 



V. VULPECULA. V. fusiformis angulata inermis, transversim striata. 



Of the ample details the first two paragraphs only were found in the 

 manuscript. The proposed name was F. picta. 



V. PLTCARIA. r. fusiformis, anguhs antice subspinosis. 



The intended appellation angulata was changed from an erroneous im- 

 pression of the identity of the species with the Turricula plicata of Rum- 

 phius. " Mucronatis " and " albidus *' were emendations. " Bonan. 8. 

 f. 65 " was referred to, as in the * Systema '. 



V. PERTUSA. V. fusiformis, labro denticulato, striata punctis pertusis. 



V. denticulata was the name originally proposed for this Mitre. 



V. MiTRA. V. fusiformis laevis, labro denticulato. 



The final paragraph was not in the manuscript, where " Bonan. 3. t. 119, 

 120 ", and " Klein, 36. Mitra episcopi", the former cited in the ' Systema', 

 the latter a mere name, were quoted as illustrative. 



V. MUSIC A. V. spinis obtusiusculis, columella plicis 8. 



The reference to the letters X. and Y. of Gualtieri (neither of which are 

 illustrative) stood not thus in the original : the characteristic Z. of that 

 work was the figure really cited. The printed edition has been enlarged 

 by an " ob " before " ovate " the addition of " solida ", and the description 

 of the lips. 



V. VESPERTiLio. V. spinis acutis, columella plicis 4. 



