126 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
French or German writers, as the shells to which they have 
given the name of Orthis Pecten all belong to other species. 
“The only addition in the revised copy of the ‘Systema’ is a 
reference to plate 447 of Lister’s ‘ Historie,’ a mere copy from 
the previously cited figure.” (Sharpe MS.). 
Anomta strtatula. 
With so meagre a description, in the absence of any pictorial 
reference, or any recorded locality, it was impossible to deter- 
mine this fossil species. In the revised copy of the ‘ Systema,’ 
however, Linnezus has indicated “ List. 462” as a delineation 
of it; unfortunately, the engraved specimen being neither per- 
fect nor characteristic, the figure, as Mr. Davidson informs me, 
cannot be positively recognised ; hence the definition being in- 
sufficient, the species must be finally expunged as a Linnean 
one. The JVerebratula striatula of Sowerby and Mantel was 
not intended for the Linnean fossil. 
Of the shells in our author’s cabinet, and he has declared his 
possession of the ,species, that which best (yet imperfectly) 
answers to the combined characters of the engraving and de- 
scription is a T'erebratula, which looks something like the 
resupinata of the ‘ Mineral Conchology.’ 
Anouta truncata. 
This species has been recognised by naturalists from its ex- 
cellent description, which is far more detailed than is usual in 
the ‘Systema.’ The figure referred to in Lister presents much 
general resemblance to truncata, but exhibits a fossil and not a 
recent brachiopode. In the manuscript of the younger Linné, 
* Gualt. 96, A,” erroneously ascribed by his father to scobinata, 
is transferred more justly to the present shell, for which (how- 
ever rude) it was evidently designed. 
A paper inscribed “truncata,” in the Linnean collection, 
enveloped some specimens of the Terebratula truncata of 
