164 SPECIES OF THE SYSTEMA. 
earlier edition, is erroneous ; his figure looks more like quercinus 
in shape, and does not correspond to “ basi semper violacea.” 
As Regenfuss’s painting of C. tessellatus has not been cited, 
and the expression “ rubro maculata” has been omitted in the 
‘Museum Ulrice,’ the species delineated by Rumphius has 
been universally adjudged to merit, in preference, the Linnean 
appellation. 
Conus capttanens. 
When Linneus separated the previously confused C. gene- 
ralis from this very different species, he left the specific diag- 
nosis as it originally stood, with both “ basi fusca,” and “ spira 
convexiuscula” included. The latter expression was, indeed, 
more appropriate to the shell generally accepted for capitaneus ; 
the former character belongs to generalis exclusively. The 
synonymy of the ‘Museum Ulrice’ pertains to the capitaneus 
of authors ; not so the description, which is better adapted for 
generalis. The synonyms of the twelfth edition of the ‘ Sys- 
tema’ point, in the main, to the shell traditionally selected as 
its representative, and that species (Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. i. 
Con. f. 54) is still preserved in the Linnean cabinet, but with 
the name only appended in pencil-writing. In citing the works 
of our author, the reference must be solely to the final edition 
of the ‘Systema,’ and that with ‘in part” annexed to the 
reference. ‘The indicated colour (“ cesia,” that of a cat’s eye) 
is peculiarly suited to the shell selected; and the addition of 
‘List. 780” to the synonymy in the revised copy favours the 
received opinion. However faulty was the synonymy of the 
tenth edition, it was rendered still worse in the twelfth, by too 
indiscriminate a citation of Seba’s engravings: figures 23 to 25 
of plate 42, in that bulky volume, represent, and are again 
quoted for, the next species ; 32 1s more like Swmatrensis ; 85 to 
mustelinus; 28, 29 alone are designed for capitaneus. The K in 
the reference to Rumphius was a misprint for X, which repre- 
sents capitaneus, and was so quoted in both the earlier edition 
and in the ‘Museum Ulrice.’ 
